Can you live on a lie?

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SNOW AND SAND

Can you live on a lie?

Snow and Sand won the Danish Playwrights’ Manuscript Award for Children and Young People 2020 for a strong idiom and a simple staging. The play revolves around divorce and loneliness in a story about the boy Johan, who uses his imagination as a way out. But what happens when his imagination can’t be controlled?

Johan has lost his key and is locked out. When will his mother come home? Darkness descends over the snow in the apartment building. His mother works all the time, and his parents no longer live together. Johan has to fend for himself as best he can. He uses his imagination to create meaning in life. If you make up a story in your head about the things that happen in life, reality is actually not so bad.

There are snowballs and love, betrayals and revelations.

From 10 years

Tour Dates September 2026

Duration 50 min.

Contact tour-coordinator
Henriette Kudsk
+45 71 99 88 77
henriette@zebu.nu

SPECS

Price for performance 8.000 kr. (excl. VAT)
Audience capacity 60
Height 250 cm
Length 300 cm
Depth 400 cm
Including audience No
Power 230 V (10A)
Set up time 90 min.
Tear down time 45 min.
Blackout No

Curious about more than one?
If you would like to purchase more touring performances, please contact Henriette Kudsk at henriette@zebu.nu or 71 99 88 77.

Purchasing a workshop includes an introduction before the performance and a subsequent workshop with one of ZeBU’s experienced theatre educators and the actor from the performance. A workshop typically lasts 1.5 hours and costs DKK 5,200 for 30 students. Booking is arranged directly with ZeBU and depends on the availability of the theatre educational staff. Contact Henriette Kudsk at henriette@zebu.nu or phone 71 99 88 77 for further arrangements.

CREDITS

Idea, play wright and concept Carl Martin Norén
Director Jørgen Carlslund
Consultant Jan Overgaard Mogensen
Sound designer Asger Kudahl
Photographer Sonja Lovdal
Trailer A Drenna Production

»WITH JUST A FEW MEANS CARL MARTIN NORÉN BRINGS FORTH A TOUCHING STORY ABOUT A FRAGILE UPBRINGING, WHERE HE UNFOLDS OUR 12-YEAR-OLD MAIN CHARACTER’S EMOTIONS WITHOUT TOO MANY GROWN UP EXPLANATIONS.« 

Gudrun Hagen, Teateravisen