A Pigeon Sat on a Branch Reflecting on Existence

An absurdist, surrealistic and shocking pitch-black comedy, which moves freely from nightmare to fantasy to hilariously deadpan humour as it muses on man’s perpetual inhumanity to man.

Cast

Holger Andersson

as Jonathan

Nisse Vestblom

as Sam

Viktor Gyllenberg

as Le Roi Charles XII

Lotti Törnros

as Le Professeur de Flamenco

Jonas Gerholm

as Le Colonel Solitaire

Ola Stensson

as Le Capitaine/Barbier

Oscar Salomonsson

as Le Danseur

Roger Olsen Likvern

as Le Gardien

Charlotta Larsson

as Lotta la Boiteuse

Göran Holm

as Bargäst

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