THE SWEATER WAS A LIE, THE PRIZE WAS TOOTHPASTE, AND LUCIA SAVED THE DAY

What happens when Lucia, theatre superstition, bad online shopping, and a wine lottery collide backstage?
This video is a love letter to winter workdays, unexpected gifts, and the kind of laughter that keeps a theatre alive when darkness presses close ❄️🕯️🎭

It’s the final Saturday of the season, and Sweden is wrapped in Lucia light. At the theatre, tradition meets improvisation. Between shows, there’s a wine lottery, the kind that promises glamour and delivers surprise 🍷🎰 I bring a bottle, optimistic and composed, only to be undone immediately by generosity and comedy.
David, makeup artist extraordinaire, presents me with a gift. First: a massive bar of vegan chocolate 🍫🌱 A triumph. Then: the sweater. A garment born of hope and deception. Purchased at Wish. Thought to be knitted. Revealed to be nylon with a printed knit pattern 😱👕 The model in the photo was so devastatingly handsome that all critical thinking ceased. We laughed until tears, because sometimes fashion teaches humility.

Then arrives Johanna, my former assistant, stepping in to learn my track in case illness dares interrupt the show 👠📋 Preparedness is love. She brings a Christmas gift. A rice ball. Simple. Perfect. Deeply moving 🍙❤️
The roulette spins, fate leans in 🎰 Peter Dalle and Hanna Dorsin win the spin, but the wine lottery itself delivers pure absurdity. Peter Dalle wins half a tube of toothpaste 🪥🏆 Hanna Dorsin receives a glass bowl so spectacularly unfortunate it becomes iconic 💎😬

Third place goes to Per Svensson 🥉 Second to Anders Jansson 🥈 First place, joy incarnate, goes to Hanna Dorsin 🥇✨ She has a wonderful day, and honestly, so do we all.

This video promises warmth, laughter, and a reminder that backstage life is built on kindness, jokes, and shared survival through long, dark winters 🌌🤍 It’s about showing up, even when the sweater is wrong and the prize is toothpaste.
If you love theatre life, backstage stories, Scandinavian winter rituals, Lucia celebrations, vegan treats, costume mishaps, and real human moments, you’re in the right place 🎥✨ Subscribe, like, and stay with me through the season, because there is always more light to be found, even under fluorescent dressing room bulbs.
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