Here we meet the pathetic sadist Helmut and the jaded masochist Martha, trapped in a destructive relationship where love becomes both compulsion and longing.

The performance is inspired by Rainer Werner Fassbinder’s film Martha (1974), Cornell Woolrich’s short story For the Rest of Her Life, and the concept of hauntology - the idea that ideals of the past never fully disappear but continually haunt the present.

With cinematic techniques, dark humor, and precise stagecraft, a nightmare unfolds in burgundy curtains and suffocating dreams.

Martha’s House is both a horror drama and a political commentary on our time: a story about how the dream of control, the nuclear family, and “the perfect home” can become a prison.

A beautiful and unsettling portrait of love’s darker sides, and of a society still haunted by its own values.

Soup Kitchen 25 february at 12:00 PM in Rosendal Café

Olof Runsten invites you to a Soup Kitchen ahead of the performance at Rosendal Teater. They will be joining us to talk about what they has created, how, and why.

Soup Kitchen is an initiative to make art more accessible; we open our doors for conversation and community.

On the menu is a delicious, homemade soup that is always vegan or vegetarian.

Free entry and free soup.