- It's like a Greek drama and a kind of queen fall.

It's interesting as an actor to get into, says actor Ylva Olaison when we meet her at the rehearsals.

It was she who got the idea to stage "K" as a monologue, and in preparation for the role she has, among other things, studied literature - the book is bursting with literary references.

Katarina Frostenson was called the queen of poetry and sat for seventeen years as a member of the Swedish Academy.

The book "K" is a furious confrontation with Metoo, with the cultural public and with the country of Sweden.

The 18 women who testified about Kulturprofilen's abuse in Dagens Nyheter are called vengeful megalomaniacs, and when the book came out in 2019, its veracity was questioned by several critics.

The question many asked themselves was whether it was possible to keep morality out of reading.

- The theater often works with morality.

The world drama is full of immoral stories.

I personally find it interesting to be where it is difficult and hurtful, snarky.

Where you don't know all the answers, says Ylva Olaison.

"No objective truth"

When Frostenson portrayed this time in literature, her texts were called toxic by several critics.

When asked whether a text can be directly dangerous, the director of the set, Tobias Hagström-Ståhl, answers yes.

- Absolutely, when it pretends to be the truth.

In our case, we are working with a text that is so clearly subjective and one person's view of an event.

And that happening for that look is of course true, but it is not an objective or impartial truth, says director Tobias Hagström-Ståhl.

Frostenson invited to the premiere

The truth is that Frostenson was forced to leave the Swedish Academy and Kulturprofilen was sentenced to prison.

But the monologue requires at least an apparent loyalty with the narrator.

Katarina Frostenson herself has approved the dramatization of the text and she is invited to the premiere.

- It was a bare depiction of a person who loses everything from one day to the next and who falls from a position and loses his context.

An inside perspective on a person trying to understand the action in his own life, says Ylva Olaison.