Teater Halland: The Cashier’s Forgotten Flowers

Teater Halland was one of seven cultural institutions awarded funding through RJ’s Art and Culture initiative, which aims to create new productions based on academic research. The initiative seeks to make the humanities and social sciences accessible to a broader public. The performance draws from research in social anthropology and archaeology, with influences from various literary works.

The Cashier’s Forgotten Flowers explores different perspectives on how people deal with disaster and how trauma can shape our perception of reality. The play is a woven tapestry of stories, where facts are filtered through emotion, creating a collective snapshot of a catastrophe.

One of the research projects behind the play is Transgenerational Transmission of War Experiences Among Bosnians in Sweden – A Study in Psychological Anthropology by Ivana Maček, Lecturer at the Department of Social Anthropology at Stockholm University. The research combines anthropological and psychodynamic methods, revealing how children reinterpret their parents’ wartime stories to fit their contemporary Swedish context—often altering factual details while amplifying emotional significance.

The second project is When Time Stood Still – Life Stories and Death Moments in Sandby Borg by Helena Victor, Professor of Archaeology (and Head of Museum Archaeology Southeast at Kalmar County Museum). The research centers on the massacre that took place at Sandby Borg at the end of the 5th century.

The Cashier’s Forgotten Flowers premieres April 11 and runs until May 15, 2026, at Teater Halland in Varberg.