Saltstänk & Smuggelsprit

On the Halland coast stands "Badhotell Klitterviken" - once grand, now in the late 1920s a hotel that has clearly seen better days. Yet the pompous owner Estrid (Helena Aspeflo) has no intention of admitting it. She pressures her exhausted husband Hubert (Håkan Klamas) to maintain the illusion of an exclusive beach hotel, despite what the walls tell a different story.

Hubert has secretly made a deal with one of the west coast's biggest smuggling kingpins, Konrad Stålberg (Daniel Träff), and overnight a large shipment of German spirits has been delivered to the hotel. The problem is that on the same day Estrid has booked the hotel for a wake for the wealthy widow Stråhle (Ewa Roos) - whose late husband was chairman of Halland's temperance committee - and the widow has promised to donate a substantial sum to the hotel, provided the wake proceeds calmly and with dignity.

And then the couple's daughter Alfrida (Jeanette Capocci) shows up, searching for a suspected unfaithful lover and carefully concealing that she recently squandered her parents' money at Gothenburg's jazz clubs and dance halls. Pastor Livhed (Mikael Riesebeck), who is to conduct the memorial service, suffers from narcolepsy and falls asleep instantly. Postman Dag-Otto Flink (Jojje Jönsson) soon doesn't know if he's a postman, smuggler, waiter, or priest. And the hotel's newly arrived guests Rut (Annika Andersson) and Ragnar (Mikael Riesebeck) are unwillingly drawn into it all.

With smuggled spirits in the cellar, a body gone astray, threatening spirits police, and a chest that never seems to contain what it should - the circus soon becomes complete chaos.

Cast: Annika Andersson, Mikael Riesebeck, Ewa Roos, Jojje Jönsson, Jeanette Capocci, Håkan Klamas, Daniel Träff and Helena Aspeflo.

Performance length: approximately 2 hours and 30 minutes.