Women and Apple Trees

On sisterhood and resistance after Moa Martinson's classic.

Sally and Ellen grow up in the poor neighborhoods of Norrköping at the end of the 1800s. As adults, they meet again and find in each other a rare strength. Ellen is the quiet, enduring mother who struggles in a destructive marriage. Sally is the principled and fearless one, a woman who speaks up even when no one wants to listen. Around their legs, children move in a daily life marked by toil, losses, and moments of connection.
Moa Martinson's novel from 1933 depicts women's living conditions with a perspective that still feels unusually straightforward, a language rooted in earth, work, and survival. It is a story of how women carried their lives and each other. About sisterhood as a counterforce and friendship as a necessity in a world where security was rarely to be found.

Nearly a hundred years after the novel was written, it continues to resonate with its social pathos and its deeply human portrayal of two women who refuse to go under.

Now, Women and Apple Trees receives new scenic life in a dramatization by Tora von Platen and directed by Julia Marko-Nord.

Guest performance at Teater Västernorrland by Västerbottensteatern.
Included in the subscriptions 26/27
Cast
Emilia Roosmann
Maria Sundbom
Mårten Andersson
Tuuli Heinonen
Emil Grudemo El Hayek

Artistic team
By: Tora von Platen after Moa Martinson's novel

Producer
A co-production between Riksteatern and Västerbottensteatern