Stage


Sviten 2022

Additional Playwriter, Director

In 2022, Lisa combined her passion for theatre and film into the fusion piece “SVITEN”, a theatre play where the performers interacted with media excerpts such as narrative film, security cameras and social media as a way of unravelling the mystery of what happened the night a young woman died. 

“The Suite” was based on a popular radiodrama, 8 x 30 minute police interrogations surrounding the death of a 17-year old girl at a party with four very wealthy men from the Stockholm bourgoise.

The piece focuses on economic and sexual power, peer pressure, crossed boundaries, and exploitation.

Read the reviews (in Swedish)
DN kultur
“I Sviten samlas en överklass med resårbandsmoral”
QX
”Sviten på Intiman är bland det bäst jag sett”
Image: Carl Thorborg

Next to Normal föreställning
Dan Ekborg and Lisa Nilsson in Next to normal. September 2012. Photo Petra Hellberg

Next to Normal, 2012

Director

In 2012 Lisa Ohlin directed the Swedish version for Stockholms leading theatre, Stadsteatern, with singer Lisa Nilsson in her stage debut. It was a smash hit, with rave reviews and sold out houses each night.

Next to Normal is the groundbreaking Broadway musical about a family struggling to cope with the mother’s bipolar disease. It won the Pulitzer Prize, three Tony Awards and was hailed by critics as well as audience. It started off-Broadway in New York in 2008, was raised on Broadway in 2009 and was a spectacular success.

Read the reviews (in Swedish)
Svenska Dagbladet
“Sensationell Lisa Nilsson”
Expressen
Lisa Ohlins iscensättning på Stadsteatern: milda Matilda!”
Nummer
“Familjesaga med musikaliskt djup”