Review: Täti ja minä

Rough but tender

“I’ll guess how this will turn out,” said my colleague Morris Panychin during the intermission of the play Aunt and I . I already had the final solution in my head. We were both completely on the wrong track. Absurd, harsh and hysterically laughable in its brutality, it ended so sweetly tenderly that it was not only us middle-aged women who had a drop in the eyelid. The performance on the Elsa stage at the Helsinki City Theatre is definitely worth seeing, also because of the excellent actors. Ritva Valkama is absolutely incredible as a decrepit aunt and Jouko Klemettilä is brilliant as a greedy nephew. And a special thank you to the set designer for the joyful euthanasia machine! Warning: serious people, absolutely avoid this spectacle!