Jens Ohlin

takes the model lightly when he borrows Quasimodo from Victor Hugo's novel for his disaster comedy at the Folkteatern.

It is also with a light touch that he lets doomsday medieval drama meet ego-tripped middle-class angst.

Quasimodo himself is certainly smaller, just like in the novel, but in Kim Lantz's curved form he is also a scenic embodiment of Bergman's Death figure from The Seventh Seal, here, however, with the addition of an undeveloped twin under the black throwaway cloak.

Well – spoiler alert – the little hairy creature is actually shown to be able to both speak and move in a slightly grotesque dream sequence, which is not for the faint of heart. 

In addition to Quasimodo

, the scene is populated by a family of priests who have each taken a mortal sin with them on the journey to Armageddon.

Yes, for the earth to perish, and on a particular date, we know that as surely as in the prophecies of Nostradamus.

The only question is how do we tackle this little problem?

By living strictly ascetically in the hope of appeasing the god?

Well, why not instead take every opportunity to enjoy yourself if everything is going to go wrong anyway? 

This dilemma

- the one that all of us who are forced to choose between flight shame and long weekends in Barcelona have to deal with - is depicted in this equally witty and intelligent satire with a twist and music.

Playwright and director Jens Ohlin is as familiar with Britney Spears, Carl Orff as Samuel Beckett and references them all without any problems. 

Watching the ensemble

veer wildly between lamb sausage gluttony, sadomasochistic granny fantasies and greed disguised as lifestyle coaching is pure joy.

Little by little, the family is also clothed quite literally with all dignity and perhaps reaches the height of blasphemy when they let loose on the communion wine.

All this in a simple but still somewhat magnificent scenography where Notre Dame's huge rose window lies like a ruin in the center of the stage, as a reminder of recent great fires. 

In short

, I can only recommend, young and old, to go and see this as disastrous as it is disastrously fun pleasure game!