Prepare yourself for tingling thrills and nostalgia when these two fading stars frantically seek to rekindle the affection of their audiences

In the good old days, the adorable child star Dukkelise would perform to full houses with her father. Now she lives with her sister, the failed C-movie actress Lila Lash, in a dilapidated chamber of horrors in Sydhavnen. Great is their joy when the doorbell rings and Miss Jakobsen from the newspaper Vaudeville Now conveys the happy news that an early comeback awaits both sisters. But who exactly is this Miss Jakobsen? A vicious game to garner the attention of the audience starts afresh.

Venture into the condensed world of childhood and nostalgia when director Elisa Kragerup adds songs from a bygone age to playwright Jokum Rohde’s dark, hallucinatory world of family power games.

Dukkelise is nurtured by dark-hearted humour and features a danse macabre by two of Danish theatre’s most enthralling actresses. If you loved Rohde’s puzzling and poignant event performances Amandaværelset, Har-har-har De set min kone? and Hvem myrdede Regitze Rio then don’t miss Dukkelise.

Performances are in Danish.