Mrs. Josephine’s dramatic form, chamber play and its dramatic construction has August Strindberg’s Miss Julie as an inspiration. The model for Josephine is one of those horse girls who dreams of owning a horse farm.
And on the surface it seems to be about a marriage but it’s more than that.
LOGLINE
The man from the country making career and marry into a fine family but ending up himself destitute.
BRIEF SYNOPSIS
The play takes place in a horse farm main building where family and relatives celebrate Christmas. When everyone else had gone to bed Josephine, her husband Jack and their common friend Katrin are awake long into the Christmas early morning. They end up in the kitchen telling memories that trigger unexpected events.
Katrin is Jack’s childhood friend who never stopped loving Jack. She and Josephine became best friends since they met in high school.
Josephine invited them both to taste the good life but Josefin took Jack in front of Katrin. Since then, Katrin lived alone. Jacks discouragement to have become a slave to his wife’s dreams triggers all the conflicts that have been built up over the years. It develops into a love triangle in which Josefin receive a life changing gift. Daddy’s spoiled daughter Josephine finds that her husband had enough and she faces inevitable choices.
Writer
Börje Peratt
Theatre play Mrs. Josephine 