Research in Sweden

My head is aching, I have a running nose and every time I cough, it feels like a great workhorse has kicked me in the chest. The only reason that I am awake and sitting up is that Sweden is beating Finland in the Olympic ice hockey tournament!

The world I'm living in right now, in this moment, is dramatic but exciting. There are many storylines going different directions. One of the story lines I'm exploring right now will hopefully – if the horse stops kicking – take me to the north of Sweden next week, to a town called Skellefteå. There I intend to do the SOG research on "mothers and daughters". Skellefteå is a town I'm familiar with because I once moved there for 6 months to work at the regional theater Västerbottensteatern.

Now I'm going back to use the people, atmosphere, environment to create a part of a movie. One of my personal story circles will come to a close now when I go back, but with an opportunity for new ones to start and maybe some old ones that have been on hibernation will come alive…This might be the beginning of a really good one.

Per Gottfredsson, organizer from "Stockholms Improvisationsteater" (Stockholm, Sweden), about the Swedish research topic.