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Pernilla Wiechel, Kulturbloggen (Swedish cultural website) 15/12 2021 about her play ”The Muses”

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”It is uncommon as a woman to sit down in the theater audience and get to see something that from the first minute to the last holds a female perspective... Bengtén has in her play succeed in gathering experiences showing a woman struggling to put work before childbearing, freedom before marriage and the right to your own agency despite men's privilage in the same aspects.”

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Lars Ring, Svenska Dagbladet (Swedish newspaper), 6/11 2019 about the play ”Belfast Girls”

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”…the young Molly, she who is someone else, portrayed with fine delicacy by Siri Bengtén.”

Hanna Nordenhök, Expressen (Swedish newspaper), 6/11 2019 about the play ”Belfast Girls”

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”And very much so the heat vibrates between Liv Björk Zehourou's Judith and Siri Bengtén's troubled Molly, when they in a powerful scene grasp for each other, unshielded, with their history of famished girl dreams.

Karin Noomi Karlsson, Stage Art's Guide, 16/5 2018 about her play "Remember Zenobia?"

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”Siri Bengtén from Altitud Theater Company has done an outstanding effort with the script. She reveals the problems with refinement and makes it visible and engaging to the audience despite each individual's level of awareness. It makes me long for the two promised newly written plays coming in 2019! The ensemble presents a detailed portrait of the characters with small means. One feels strongly for the six women on stage, and their diverse destinies awaken thoughts in me about how I can change this situation for women further. The play hits you straight in the heart. One can't be left untouched by its message, especially not after the last year of #MeToo as an eye opener. Even those who haven't before been aware of the gender discriminating structures and its affect on human lives will get a real eye opener from "Remember Zenobia?". It's like a sharp knife hits the audience, as sharp as the surgical tool that come to end Sigrid Hjerténs life through the lobotomy she had to suffer in Beckomberga's Hospital 1948. During the show I was filled with despair, rage and despondence at the same time as I realize that it's actually possible to make life better for us who live today and coming generations. We all have a responsibility to be the force that makes the pendulum swing the other way. However much we want to believe that we live in an equal society we have to remember that (some) Women's right to vote isn't even a hundred years old in Sweden.