SKYGGEBARNET

Who knows the truth about a family?

No one knows the truth about a childhood home except the child. That’s what Emma says when she turns up unannounced at her unsuspecting parents’ home to talk. About her childhood, about her parents, and about everything she believes has damaged her.
Armed with the language of therapy and psychological insights, she invades their calm, privileged life of comfort and indulgence.
Now they are sitting around the dinner table with 30 years of pent-up conflict between them, while Emma insists that everything must be brought into the open.

SKYGGEBARNET is a claustrophobic family horror story about two generations fighting over the truth. About adult children demanding answers, and parents who suddenly discover that their own children remember an entirely different life from the one they do. But does the truth even exist – and who has the right to claim it?

Ingeborg Topsøe, creator of the Netflix series RESERVATET, makes her debut as a playwright with an absurd confrontation between parents and children about the language of therapy as a weapon, generational conflict, and the insidious power of diagnoses over our lives.

On stage, a stellar cast featuring Lotte Andersen, Dejan Čukić, Ena Spottag Fog, Søs Egelind, Kimmie Liv Sennova and Hans Christian Lundgren come together for an intense family showdown that leaves no one unscathed.