Odense Teater stages a two-part marathon production of Fru Marie Grubbe, based on J.P. Jacobsen's novel. The evening follows a woman born into 17th-century Danish nobility who longs for freedom, desire and passion rather than power or status, and who breaks out of the roles set for her by gender and class, each time at a higher cost.
The story moves from her youth as an headstrong noblewoman and her marriage to the royal bastard son Ulrik Frederik Gyldenløve, to her social fall and her uncompromising love for the down-to-earth coachman Søren. The production is presented as an ambitious and sensual portrait of a woman who defied the norms of her time.
