"The Wonder"

“Living dead haunt the stage of Christian Lollike. Zombies with pitch-black eyes move in choreographed slow motion across the stage. Mechanical robots with doll faces and canned voices mime a pre-recorded script in a soulless IKEA-like scenography. A stage on which humanist ideals and human rights are buried alive, while their promises of freedom and justice haunt a corrupted and suspicious Europe. A stage where the dream of a different future is artificially kept alive by a devious media machinery serving as cultural life support. A stage on which all hope is abandoned.” – Anders Thrue Djurslev, from the preface of Christian Lollike’s The Wonder.

Published as part of Forlaget Kronstork’s Bibliotek Bayou series of contemporary drama, The Wonder: Selected Texts 2004-2018 comprises 11 of Lollike’s texts for plays and performances, some of them published into several languages. Purchase the book from Forlaget Kronstork’s website and visit his author profile at Nordiska’s website, offering selected scripts in translation.

“Lollike’s drama is its own scale. The only thing Lollike can’t beat in nastiness is reality itself, but he comes damn close.” – Kamilla Löfstrom, Dagbladet Information

“11 works that fully demonstrate that Lollike ranges equally as broadly in form – thriller, horror, farce, comedy, ballet, musical theatre, chamber play, and ensemble – as he comprises his dramas to a few, clear themes: anxiety, alienation, evil, ignorance, and the bankruptcy of our institutions.” – Asker Hedegaard Boye, Standart