Shanti Roney - Jävla Karlar

Christmas 1983: a two-storey house in the forest outside Norrköping is shaken by a violent quarrel, and a secret tumbles out from a mother. Seven-year-old Andrev learns that his father is not his father. The real one lives in a distant land and has hair down to his shoulders - like an Indian, his mother says, gesturing to her elbow so the boy understands. Something stirs in him, because it's the best thing he's ever heard. It feels like he's the boy in a book about a boy who discovers his father is a king in a magical land and that a spirit will come to take him there. But no spirits come, only new fathers who aren't his.

On stage: Shanti Roney.

"Jävla karlar shows what a master Shanti Roney is" - DN

"Shanti Roney gives sovereign physical presence to the different characters" - SVD

"Shanti Roney captures Jävla Karlar's pain points on stage" - Aftonbladet

"Magnetic childhood portrait" - Kulturnyheterna

"beautifully realized novel text" - P1 Kultur