Stormens utgrävning

What is it really like in the three-plus society? Can we still be touched and seriously enter into a listening and responding relationship with another human being? Or with a work of art? Do you get goosebumps from music? Profilteatern makes theatre out of The Tempest's development – the contemporary commentary podcast in which Ola Söderholm, Liv Strömquist and Jonatan Unge with humor and sharpness lay out the text about current affairs and contemporary phenomena.

The performance takes its starting point in the future to get a glimpse of the present. A group of archaeologists has made a groundbreaking find from the 2020s. They have found remnants of so-called "content" – material from a podcast that was apparently very popular at the time during the last phase of the late capitalist era. The researchers are very enthusiastic and their hopes are high. Finally, we will get answers to questions such as: What did a typical day look like for a person during this period? What lives were all these boomers, incels, right-wing trolls, and tiktok moms really living? Did they eat baboons? Did they exclusively have tantric sex? And above all: Why were natural wine, Brazilian buttlift and self-help gurus more important than collective action?

After the box office success of Excuse Me, could you starve a little quieter, we're actually trying to create some economic growth over here! Profilteatern once again invites you to a performance where some of the country's most interesting contemporary interpreters stand for the material. The Storm's Excavation is a deep dive into issues of narcissism, alienation, and social acceleration. A unique and up-close experience of how people lived and thought in the 2020s and beyond. The performance is based on dramatized podcast hosts from The Storm's development by Söderholm, Strömquist and Unge, which in 2024 will have passed over 200 episodes. Malin Dahlström, known from the pop duo Niki and the dove, is responsible for the newly composed music. Welcome to an archaeological excavation of our time. Welcome to the Excavation of the Storm.