Participants

Niklas Ek participated in the dance production LOL by Ohad Naharin at the Jewish Theatre in 2000. He has previously worked with Pia Forsgren, playing the title role in her production of Kaspar by Peter Handke, at Kilen, Kulturhuset in 1991. In his dancing career, Niklas Ek has been engaged by the Royal Opera in Stockholm, by the Maurice Béjarts Ballet of the XXth Century, the Cullberg Ballet, Nederlands Dansteater and the Opera Ballet in Lyon. He has danced in works by coreographers Birgit Cullberg, John Cranko, Michail Fokine, Mats Ek, John Neumeier, Jirí Kylián, Glen Tetley, Maurice Béjart, José Limón, Frederick Ashton and Kenneth Mac Millan, and many others. He has been acclaimed for his interpretations of roles in works including Birgit Cullberg’s productions of Eurydike är död 1969, Rött vin i gröna glas 1971, Rapport 1976 and Miss Julie 1980 and Mats Ek’s Smoke 1995 and Tulips 2003. Niklas Ek the actor featured in the film Juloratoriet, 1996, directed by Linus Tunström, and in Dans med nästan 1993, På Malta 1996, and Don Juan 2003, all three directed and choreographed by Mats Ek. He has also participated in other films, including Suzanne Osten’s Bröderna Mozart 1986 and in productions for TV and radio. Alongside The Dogs of Prague he was recently involved in the performance of La Veillée des Abysses by James Thierré which was performed most recently in September in Barcelona.


Agneta Ekmanner worked with Pia Forsgren in 1997 at the Jewish Theatre in a production of Savannah Bay, also by Marguerite Duras. Agneta Ekmanner has participated in several productions by Katarina Frostenson at the Royal Dramatic Theatre, directed by Pia Forsgren: Nilen, 1989, Traum, 1993, and Sal P, 1996. She was also in Pia Forsgren’s production of Tupilak by PO Enquist in 1993. Agneta Ekmanner was recruited by the Stockholm Stadsteater in 1968, directly after graduating from drama school in Malmö, and has starred in roles such as Masja in Chechov’s Three Sisters, directed by Otomar Krejca, the title role in Lorca’s Miss Rosita and Celimène in Molière’s The Misanthrope, both directed by Jonas Cornell. She has featured in several productions by Suzanne Osten, both on stage, for instance in Underjordens leende and En fruktansvärd lycka by Lars Norén, and on film, as in Bröderna Mozart and Livsfarlig film. In 1990, she directed Elvire Jouvet by Brigitte Jacques for Stockholm Stadsteater. She has also participated in countless other film, TV and radio productions. Agneta Ekmanner has been with the Royal Dramatic Theatre since 1989. Her first part was Baroness Saint-Fond in Ingmar Bergman’s production of The Marquis de Sade. Most recently, Agneta Ekmanner was in Borkmann by Henrik Ibsen, directed by Hilda Hellwig, in 2006, and last spring she played the part of Amanda in Tennesse Williams’ The Glass


Gorki Glaser-Müller trained at the Malmö Theatre Academy and at the School of Photography at Göteborg University, where he studied film directing. His films include Högt Standart 2000, Dom fyra sista siffrorna 2003, Tjejen med Videokameran 2005, and Vattenmelonen 2006. He was awarded three prizes at the international student film festival in Santiago, Chile, for his short film Ägget 2003: for best film and best script, and the child actor Ivar Svensson got the best actor award. As an actor, Gorki Glaser-Müller has participated in several productions including Measure for Measure, 1995, Teater Roma, Svartsjukans Natt, 2000, Svensk Symbolistisk Teater, Bingo, 2000, Teater Terrier, Den Tröttaste Människan på Planeten, 2001, Teater Blå, and in several TV and film productions including Den Femte Kvinnan, Skeppsholmen and Lasermannen. Gorki Glaser-Müller is currently working on a script for a feature film, and his music video for Advance Patrol has recently been released. For more information, please visit .


Björn Granath was most recently engaged at the Jewish Theatre in 2002, when he played the father in Katarina Frostenson’s Kristallvägen, directed by Pia Forsgren. Since 1987 he has been with the Royal Dramatic Theater, where he has participated in numerous productions, including Drottningens juvelsmycke, directed by Peter Oskarson, Mäster Olof, directed by Lennart Hjulström, Gombrowicz’ Wedding, directed by Karl Dunér, Strindberg’s A Dream Play, directed by Robert Lepage, and several productions by Ingmar Bergman, including Ibsen’s A Doll’s House and Peer Gynt, Botho Strauss’ Time and the Room and Bergman’s own Sista skriket. On film and TV his noteworthy productions include Madicken på Junibacken, Pelle Erövraren, Så vit som en snö, Den goda viljan and Löven i Vallombrosa. Björn Granath has been working with the dramatist and Nobel Prize laureate Dario Fo’s plays since 1978, and has produced several of them, including Mistero Buffo and Johan Padan discovers America. Mistero Buffo is currently being played by Özz Nujen in a production directed by Björn Granath, who is also currently in Strindberg’s Dance of Death at the Royal Dramatic Theatre.



stage design / projection / film, photo / light design: Tomas Franck and Kenneth Björk
costume: Mikael T Zielinski
sound design / composition: Heikki Kiviaho
choreography: Susanne Jaresand
text interpretation: Cecilia Berefelt
make up: Horst Stadlinger



Photo Jonas Lindström