The Iron Crown

– a free adaptation of Dag Thelander & Per Wickström's musical Jernbanan after Sara Lidman.

The Iron Crown is a humorous and touching performance with song, music and poetic video projections. Musical theatre that is both intimate and grand in its dramatic form.

Didrik fights for the living conditions of the village but the dream ends in a prison cell on Långholmen. There he intertwines success and setbacks with the heights of love and the depths of betrayal. There the mists of Lillvattnet rise and a longing; for a place that is a prolonged cry of beauty. When the fallen hero realizes too late that greater powers have played over his head.

The story is based on true events about Sara Lidman's own grandfather.

“Brilliant staging from beginning to end – the experienced actor excels”
– NWT

“Incomparable actor lands dream venture”
“A, depict the contradictory, the strong and the fragile, the life-giving and the dangerous in our dreams – is there a more important task for the theater?”
– Rolf Ahlzen, VF