At Soup Kitchen, you get to meet the artists who will soon be taking the stage with us. Ahead of the performance, they join us to talk about what they have created, how they made it, and why.

Soup Kitchen is an initiative to make art more accessible—we open the doors to conversation and community.

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

Free admission and free soup.

12:00 pm at Rosendal Café.

On 25 February, you will meet Olof Runsten, who performs Marthas Hus at Rosendal Teater on 25 and 26 February.

Martha’s House is a nightmarish haunted house, haunted by petit-bourgeois expectations and outdated ideals.

Here we encounter the pathetic sadist Helmut and the disillusioned 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 theory of hauntology—the idea that the ideals of the past never truly disappear, but return to haunt the present.

Through cinematic devices, dark humor, and precise stagecraft, a nightmare is woven from burgundy-red 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 the darker sides of love, and of a society continually haunted by its own values.

Inspired by Stanisław Lem’s cult novel Solaris and Andrei Tarkovsky’s film adaptation, Verk Produksjoner dives into the mysterious ocean of Solaris—a planet with a form of intelligence capable of assuming infinite shapes.

On the space station orbiting the planet, this presence causes severe psychological disturbances among the astronauts. The performance explores the consequences of encountering the inexplicable.

Through conversations about the Solaris ocean and its indescribable forms, stories, memories and their effects, as well as experiences from the theatre, the complex relationship between reality and illusion, truth and imitation, is examined.

Solaris was nominated for the Critics’ Prize for Theatre 2024–2025. For more than 20 years, Verk Produksjoner has created critically acclaimed performances, toured nationally and internationally, and received the Hedda Award twice.