SATAN av Iggy Malmborg

SATAN by Iggy MalmborgIn SATAN, Swedish actor and theatre maker Iggy Malmborg tells the supposedly true story of his short life and his problem in six chapters and a prologue.

It's a bumpy road that takes him from a deeply Christian family in the Swedish countryside, through friendships, sins, and homelessness, to TOU in Stavanger.

It unfolds a story of a hero who tries to become a villain but fails.

SATAN could be seen as an homage to the ancient form of oral storytelling, where a solo performer's body and voice are the sole means to bring the audience to far away places.

But at the same time something or someone lurks in the shadows....SATAN is dedicated to the function of illusion.

Illusion as a momentary, pleasurable escapism, but also as an elemental tool of creating stability and wholeness in reality itself.

Whoever dedicates oneself to the subject of illusion must also talk about truth.

In the cosmos of this piece, truth is an instance that reveals itself in a structure of fiction.

Malmborg's aesthetic style in his previous works is characterised by fragmentation and repetition.

But in SATAN, he will for the first time tell a story with a beginning, a middle, and an end, in exactly that order.

But what does it mean to tell a story, does this act ever go beyond the mere event of self-design?SATAN is the story of a hero who tries to become a villain, but fails.

Follow along on a bumpy road from a deeply Christian family in the Swedish countryside, through friendships, sins, and homelessness, to TOU's stage.

An homage to the ancient form of oral storytelling that brings the audience to far away places.CreditsBy and with: Iggy MalmborgDramaturg: Johan JönsonLight design: Ulrich RuchlinskiChoreography: Seb PerssonProduction manager: Elisabeth Carmen GmeinerAssistant: Agnes StecherCo-production: Schauspiel Leipzig, Frascati Theater and BIT TeatergarasjenIn collaboration with: Inkonst, Stamsund Teaterfestival, Reykjavík Dance Festival and DansstationenSupported by: Swedish arts grants committee, Malmö City and Ammodo (Netherlands)Short biographyIggy Malmborg 's main artistic interest is to use the performance event as a model onto which the piece's discourse directly can be applied.

Since 2014 he is producing a longer cycle of works which is diving into the theatrical machine, taking it apart and analyzing each element separately, often informed by the psychoanalytic school of thought.

Amongst the works are Physics and Phantasma on phantasy, Iris, pupil, retina, etc. on sight and SATAN on illusion, in 2026 he premieres the concluding piece of the cycle entitled Sortistycken , a work on endings. 2009-16 he was also one part of the theatre-duo White on White.

Over the years Malmborg's works have gained international recognition and been celebrated for presenting a complex intellectual discourse in a concrete way, filled with humor and warmth.

In 2023 he made his first work in Swedish, the series Försök #1-3 [essays/attempts] for Gothenburg City Theatre and in 2025 he premiered Mot Slutet , his first work directed to children.