Helgi Comes ApartHelgi Þór rofnar
- Translation: Gunnarsdóttir, Elís
Helgi Comes Apart is a play about a couple of swindlers (a father and son) in the funeral business in the town of Kópavogur and how one day a Greek tragedy starts happening to them.
The father of Helgi, Jón, has an epiphany – three terrible things are about to happen to Helgi. Jón feels that Helgi owes it to him that he listen. But instead of obeying and going into hiding like Jón suggests, Helgi decides to show himself to the world and sing at one of the funerals they are undertaking. And Helgi’s life opens up, he fucks people, manipulates them, falls in love and seems to be getting closer to his core, seems to be exiting the narrative when one of the three terrible things predicted comes true …
Helgi Comes Apart is about one con man’s desperate try to separate himself the predictions of others.