REGRETTERS

Mikael and Orlando both regret going through sexual reassignment operations to become women. They meet for the first time to have a conversation about it. Regretters is Marcus Lindeen's debut play as a director and playwright. It is based on recorded conversations between two Swedish men. The play was produced for Stockholms Stadsteater (Stockholm City Theatre) and premiered in November 2006. During four years it had several sold-out reruns at the theater. The original production was also selected as one of the best Swedish contemporary plays by The Royal Dramatic Theater in Stockholm and The National Swedish Television, who recorded it and broadcasted it in 2009.

Regretters has been translated into French, German, Norwegian, Spanish, English, Chinese and Korean. In November 2008 the German translation was selected and performed as a staged reading at the FIND-festival (Festival Internationale Neue Dramatik) at The Schaubühne in Berlin. New productions of the play has been made at The National Theater in Oslo and The National Swedish Theater in Helsinki. In 2013 the play opened in Mexico City at Teatro Helénico. In 2018, a new production of the Spanish translation of the play premiered in Santiago, Chile, directed by Víctor Carrasco. In 2019, two more productions was made, one in Buenos Aires and another one in Seoul, South Korea.

In 2010, Marcus Lindeen directed a documentary film, also called Regretters, featuring the real Mikael and Orlando in conversation.

In 2022, Marcus Lindeen will direct a new reworked version of the play in French with the title Orlando et Mikael. The play will be presented as the first installment of a trilogy of plays on the theme of identity. The full trilogy (Orlando et Mikael, Wild Minds and L’Aventure invisible) will be performed together at Festival d’Automne in Paris in 2022.





INFO & CREDITS

ORIGINAL TITLE Ångrarna
LENGTH 80 min
LANGUAGE Swedish
THEATER Stockholms Stadsteater
YEARS 2006-2008

WRITTEN AND DIRECTED BY Marcus Lindeen
SCENOGRAPHY AND COSTUME Astrid Ljungberg Järnblad
LIGHT DESIGN Daniel Trankell
MAKE UP Kjell Gustavsson
DRAMATURG Sofia Fredén
TECHNICIANS Sara Svensson, Sara Gadd
TECHNICAL COORDINATOR Stefan Karlström
FILM EDITING Marinella Angusti
PRODUCTION COORDINATOR Jen-Britt Askenberg
PRODUCER Eva Kassander

CAST Lena-Pia Bernhardsson, Åke Lundqvist




EXTRA MATERIAL

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INTERNATIONAL PRODUCTIONS

ORLANDO Y MIKAEL – LOS ARREPENTIDOS
YEAR 2023

THEATER La Teatrería, Mexico City, Mexico
CAST Terry Holiday, Dana Karvelas, Libertad Palomo, Roshell Terranova
DIRECTED BY Sebastián Sanchez Amunategui

ORLANDO ET MIKAEL
YEAR 2022

THEATER Comédie de Caen, France
CAST Samia Ferguene, Jó Bernardo
DIRECTED BY Marcus Lindeen

LOS ARREPENTIDOS
YEARS 2019-2022

THEATER Timbre-4, Buenos Aires, Argentina
CAST Monica Raiola, Luciano Suardi
DIRECTED BY Daniel Veronese

후회하는 자들 (REGRETTERS)
YEAR 2019
THEATER Doosan Art Center, Seoul, South Korea
CAST Choonsunh Ji (지춘성), Youngjun Kim (김용준)
DIRECTED BY Juyeon Ryu (류주연)

LOS ARREPENTIDOS
YEAR 2018
THEATER The Centre Gabriela Mistral, GAM, Santiago, Chile
CAST Alfredo Castro, Rodrigo Pérez
DIRECTED BY Víctor Carrasco

LOS ARREPENTIDOS
YEAR 2013
THEATER Centro Cultural Helénico, Mexico City, Mexico
CAST Margarita Sanz, Alejandro Calva
DIRECTED BY Sebastián Sanchez Amunategui


ÅNGRARNA
YEAR 2012
THEATER Svenska Teatern, Helsinki, Finland
CAST Sue Lemström, Rabbe Smedlund
DIRECTED BY Chris af Enehielm

DE ANGRENDE
YEAR 2009
THEATER Torshovteatret, National Theater of Oslo, Norway
CAST Trond Lie, Karl Sundby
DIRECTED BY Trond Lie

REGRETTERS (staged reading)
YEAR 2008
THEATER Schaubühne, Berlin as part of FIND Festival
DIRECTED BY Ramin Gray