This ambitious, sensual production follows Marie Grubbe, a 17th-century Danish noblewoman who refuses to settle for the position society has marked out for her. Born into aristocratic splendour, she longs not for power or rank but for freedom, desire and passion, and breaks out of the roles set for her by her gender and class, each time at a higher cost.
The first part shows her as a headstrong young noblewoman and in her marriage to the royal bastard son Ulrik Frederik Gyldenløve. The second follows her social fall and her uncompromising love for the down-to-earth coachman Søren, a bond that changes her life for good. The piece is based on J.P. Jacobsen's novel and offers an intense, unsettling portrait of a woman who defied the norms of her time.
