Overview
Synopsis
Kali and Todd are planning a holiday to Stockholm together, but tonight they are preparing to have their ‘dream dinner’ for Todd’s birthday. It is to be an evening full of champagne, memories...and verbal and physical abuse. The couple strive to emphasize how perfect their relationship is to the outside world--perfect house, perfect holiday, perfect dinner--but, behind closed doors, all is not as it seems. Their passionate devotion to each other quickly turns into jealousy, anger, and spite. Kali pushes Todd to ignore his family and the couple have turned inwards, trapped in a cycle of abuse and reconciliation. Stockholm gives us an emotional and intense insight into the fraught world of Kali and Todd--a couple who need to, but cannot quite, let each other go.
Show Information
- Book
- Bryony Lavery
- Category
- Play
- Age Guidance
- Mature Audiences (M)
- Number of Acts
- 1
- First Produced
- 2007
- Genres
- Drama
- Settings
- Contemporary, Unit/Single Set
- Time & Place
- A house in England, Present Day
- Cast Size
- small
- Ideal For
- College/University, Professional Theatre, Regional Theatre, Small Cast, Includes Adult Characters
Context
Stockholm was first produced at the Drum Theatre, Plymouth in September 2007. It was produced in collaboration with the theatre company, Frantic Assembly. The playwright, Bryony Lavery, confirmed that it was inspired by an incident that happened between a housemate and her boyfriend in a shared house she once lived in.
Stockholm premiered in Toronto in 2012 & off-Broadway, NYC in 2014. It is currently featured as a text on the A level drama exam syllabus.
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It’s the beginning of Spring and Todd appears with some shopping. He is off-kilter and often speaks about himself and Kali in the third-person (as both characters continue to do throughout the play). Todd is excited about their forthcoming trip to Stockholm but something is a little off as he wonders where Kali is. Just then, Kali appears with identical shopping. They have been to see a Swedish movie and Kali is still lost in the beauty of the film. Kali has decided she wants to be Swedish and
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A song with an asterisk (*) before the title indicates a dance number; a character listed in a song with an asterisk (*) by the character's name indicates that the character exclusively serves as a dancer in this song, which is sung by other characters.
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Guide Written By:
Alexandra Appleton
Writer, editor and theatre researcher