Review: Pudotuspeli

GET TO WORK AT ANY COST

Lillan’s novelty is a devilishly witty depiction of the wonders of job search
and misery.

Lilla on Yrjönkatu in Helsinki
The theatre has had a great time when it is
has been the first theatre in Finland
his repertoire includes the Spanish Jordi Galceran
written in Catalan.
Since January, it has been performed in Swedish
called Grönholms metod and last week there was
The Finnish version premiered under the name
Playoffs. The subject of the play, i.e. job search, is
I’m sure everyone is familiar with it, so it’s a touch surface
There is something for every spectator.

The absurd world of personnel selection

The events take place in Barcelona’s
skyscraper’s trendy meeting room,
where four jobseekers meet. They
are applying for the position of Sales Executive Manager
multinational furniture and
interior design group Dekia. Job search becomes
anything but a normal process.
The employer’s representatives are not visible throughout the interview
but various applications related to the
The tasks can be obtained through a mystical wall-opening
through the hatch in writing. Applicants will have to:
perform tasks that would be more
in one of the Big Brothers, or
Bar program. Events go on all the time
in an increasingly absurd direction, until all that remains is
Only one applicant. Is it a winner? The play
The key question is: how far have you come
Ready to go and get a job?

Jordi Galceran has written a comedy that has
has already become a big hit in all countries
where it has been performed, and no wonder. He is
managed to achieve something in his play
a universally humane process,
which is called job search. It has scenes and
situations that most job seekers are in
I’m sure they have come across. Of course, Galceran is taken by some
situations and plot twists to extremes,
but still maintaining a mostly realistic and
a plot that is within the limits of credibility.
A satirical depiction of modern society
The whole is bursting with ironic dialogue that makes you
his viewers laugh from time to time, even with their eyes
in tears and after a while to wonder that
Hey, what did I laugh at. Somewhat
that’s what happened to me in the interview with company X at the time….


An excellent quartet

The actors playing four job seekers play
well together. Pekka Strang plays an applicant who:
seems quite confident,
ruthless and ready to beat whomever
Anything, but I guess I’m a downright coward
and the coward who hides the ultimate
under the hard shell of their insecurities. Carl-Kristian
Rundman is a sceptical applicant who
questions the entire application process, but
throws itself into it all the time with more and more
with devotion. Sampo Sarkola is a sensitive applicant,
the sensitive secret of whose private life is possible
the employer has managed to acquire
and that he or she would not necessarily want to
other applicants. Jonna Järnefelt on
the only female applicant in the group (quota woman..?),
who gets to pretend to be so stingy about himself
than his extremely sensitive side. But which of them is the winner of the game?


Confidently directed by Pentti Kotkaniemi
a couple of hours stays together well and the viewers
enjoyment with it is probably guaranteed, at least if
can laugh at themselves and their own job search experiences….