Five highlights - on this year’s festival programme according to the three STOFF generals

Black Ocean, a special one-off performance by National Black Theatre of Sweden (NBTS) with Josette Bushel Mingo at the steering wheel! The audience can expect an open jazz space of stories, internal landscapes, the worlds of Afrofuturism, fragmented texts and ghosts of the past and present. Prior, Josette presented Running Man at #STOFF2017.

Stage: Orionteatern + Facebook live stream / Date:16/9

We love returning talent! … and trans people are from Mercury.- is a bitchy, sci fi-political, dreamy spoken word-show by and with Swedish spoken word-artist and trans activist Yolanda Aurora Bohm Ramirez, who was one of our keynote speakers during the 2019 #STOFFX launch.

Orionteatern + Facebook live stream / Date: 17/9

A Night With Thick & Tight with Thick & Tight (UK), is a rapturous triple bill bringing famous faces back to life on the dance floor to reveal the yearnings and imperfections of human nature. UK’s most prestigious stage art magazine said: “This heady mix of dance, mime and drag is a subversive delight”, while giving the show a solid five stars!

Stage: Abundo / Dates 15-19/9

Egoland with SRSLYyours is a theatre piece created in Cyprus, Sweden and Germany, which investigates our complex ‘Ego’ and the subtle impersonal and global forces which leave us exposed and vulnerable to any new dogma, political movement, religion, populist sentiment, or heroic figure. The devised performance questions our motivations and choices to live as critical (citizens) or to remain lost particles in a silent mass, pulsing to the rhythms of powerful forces we cannot understand, partake in or reply to.

Stage: Teater Tre / Date: 19/9

SQ, by Ali Heffetz (GER/IL), is a visually stunning dance performance. The show is a reflection on our mental leftovers. Think melted memories, fantasies, and all the in-betweens. It is a travel between our inner rooms, where underlying desires are peeled off, endless ambiguity faces rusty imagery, and blind determination silently falls apart.

Stage: Abundo / Dates: 15-19 Sept