The award-winning play, “Home Sweet Home”, reveals the traumatic experience of war and the unsympathetic indifference of home as refracted through a Nordic country. Denmark has been a strong supporter of international peacekeeping and has participated in several wars throughout the last 20 years. In the play Kim, a former Sergeant in the Danish army, and his girlfriend Iben, an editor of women’s magazines, are preparing a “welcome home” dinner for Carsten, Kim’s lifelong friend and once his Captain in the army. Carsten has recently returned from service in Iraq and arrives for dinner handsome and fit. But during the evening, the couple are confronted with a person whose personality has become dark and secretive and whose understanding of life has become radically different from theirs. A pleasant reunion becomes a fatal evening where all three characters’ relationships, values and principles are tested. The play is fictional, but was inspired by a true story.
