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The project Åsa Olsson is working on at the moment is a play called ’The sinners’.
Short about the ‘Sinners’;
”Which type of forgiveness is the most important? Forgivinnig yourself, to get forgiveness from the victim or maybe God’s forgiveness?
Three people are trying to deal with their past.
Jonas is living an ordinary life with his girlfriend Laura. But he’s acting strange according to Laura. Jonas on the other hand is doubting if Laura is even really there.
Esther is living some sort of twisted day to day life with her high school sweetheart, the forever young, Noah. And everything is the way it allways has been, but yet not. Esther is confused – Isn’t Noah dead?
WomanX is living everything but an ordinary life with Woman2. They are dealing with great confusion. They don’t know where they are, who they are or where they’re coming from.
These three people are trying to get through the day. But nothing is what it seems like. Gradually we understand that Jonas, Esther and WomanX have done the unforgivable; they have caused another person’s death. They are living in a surreal existence where the boundarys between reality and fantasy is gone, all three of them haunted by someone from their past.
Is it right to take someones life during some circumstances and during others not?
The one thing connecting these three people is their inner fight and striving towards atonement. But how does their moral and ethical idea about forgiveness affect them from getting there?”
The play is inspired by real stories, based on the material Åsa got by interviewing and collecting stories from people during 2010. The central question of the play is how our moral and ethical idea of forgiveness is affecting us when it comes to forgiving.
’The sinners’ is part of a nordic collaboration between Sweden, Denmark and Iceland. One play is created in each country, on the same subject and with the same working method. The name of the project is ’The Forgiveness Inquest’. You can find it on Facebook.
’The sinners’ will be ready for stageing in the fall of 2011.