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the child's point of view without simplifying our language, imagery or human experience. A happy ending is never necessary, unless it is justifiable. We have realised that faith in the future is inbuilt in children. In contrast with adults, they grow quickly, they mean to survive, they create the images they need, and go on to make up others. The only definitive difference I have discovered between children and adults as a theatrical audience is that children very much want to move forward. They are not keen on looking backward. Childhood is an adult invention, even if children say; "When I was little..." They do not cultivate sentimentality as we do in order to make time stand still and regret what might or might not have happened in the past. Some examples... The girl, the mother and the rubbish (1998) The play is about Ti, who is almost eight years old. She lives alone in an apartment with her mother, who suffers from am psychosis. Ti's mother is in the grip of two demons, Messrs Polter and Geist, who force her to go out and collect the rubbish in the city and bring it home. That is all Ti knows. She cannot understand anything. The play ends when the outside world realises what is happening and intervenes. Medea's Children (1975, 2003) This play is about a divorce, taking the children's part. A mother whose agony drains into the child. Suzanne Osten ABOUT UNGA KLARA Since its creation in 1975, Unga Klara (Young Klara) has been an independent company within the Stockholm City Theatre at the Cultural Centre. Its founder and artistic director, Suzanne Osten, is also a film director and a professor at the Stockholm College of Theatre, Film, Radio and Television. Unga Klara has its own budget, choice of repertoire, and two stages (located in a huge store room, which the architect of the Cultural Centre, Peter Celsiiig, originally conceived as the venue for spectacular cabaret.) Unga Klara has developed children's and youth theatre, both within and beyond Sweden. One of the few Swedish companies with an international reputation, several of Unga Klara's plays have been translated and performed abroad. Suzanne Osten has also received several awards for her pioneering work.