Maken (swedish for Husband) is a play based on a book by Gun Britt Sundström about a young man and woman in the sixties, who try to find their own way of living together as a couple without following the norm.

It is a very intellectual play and Johanna Mårtensson felt the scenography needed to give the actors a physical challenge, to amplify the ups and downs and the complexity of the relationship. Mårtensson designed a hybrid of a roller coaster and a bed, covered with a mattress, with the classical mattres fabric. The actors could jump, run, fall, fight and crawl on the mattress, which helped them to perform this story in a fast forward and playful way. In Act 2, when the relationship becomes complex, they take part of the mattress off, leaving the bare bed like a skeleton. In Act 3 - nicknamed the Divorce Act - the actors take the construction apart, leaving it as fragments or islands on the stage.