A moving performance about mental health and loneliness

I Want to Go Home to the People was about a Norwegian poet, Gunvor Hofmo, who was psychotic. She believed that terrible things were going to happen to her and that her lost love, Ruth Meier, a Norwegian Jew, was alive, even though she had been sent to a concentration camp and died there. Gunvor had to be admitted to a psychiatric hospital to get help there because she was so mentally damaged. So, it was simply about a woman who had severe mental problems and needed help.

We thought it was very good, but we thought they could have been a little clearer about how, for example, Ruth died, but otherwise we liked that it made us think a little for ourselves. The music and the lyrics fit in very well, because they helped tell the story. In some of the lyrics they sang about how lonely Gunvor was, so we really liked this performance.

Published

October 21, 2025

Criticism Musical Theatre

Young voices at the Music Market

Young Voices collaborates annually with Marked for musikk in Larvik, where a local editorial team of young people follows the event and reflects on the concerts and performances they see on an ongoing basis. The editorial team consists of Vesa, Emma, Stine, Betiel, Eline and Lea who are in 9th grade at Mellomhagen Junior High School.

I want to go home to the people.

Cast:
Artistic idea: Susanna Wallumrød
 Screenplay and direction: Mine Nilay Yalcin
Performers and co-creators: Susanna Wallumrød, Helga Guren and Stina Stjern
Composer: Susanna Wallumrød and Stina Stjern
Scenography and costumes: Thale Kvam Olsen
Lighting design: Ane Reiersen
Sound design: Espen Høydalsvik
Producer: Ingrid Marie Stokke

Produced in collaboration with DKS Oslo and Kloden Teater
 The performance is supported by the Directorate of Culture, Fri stage art, the Fritt Ord Foundation, the Bergesen Foundation, DKS Oslo, the Sparebank Foundation, FFUK and the Municipality of Oslo.

Photo: Anna Valeur

Music Market, October 21, 2025