Review: Manillaköysi

THE SERGEANT MAJOR KNOWS HOW TO DEAL WITH CRAZY PEOPLE

Manilla, that perennial tropical plant belonging to the banana family, is
native to the Philippines, where it is mainly cultivated. Rope, made of fibres
or thick string braided from strands, is usually necessary for pulling objects or
fastening. The rope can be made of hemp, nylon or
from Manila. Let us focus on the latter.
The manila rope also fascinates Joose from Keppilä. Let’s return home from the battlefield, and
Private Keppilä wants to bring his wife Viira a little longer than his hand as a souvenir.
And so that the stinginess would not be revealed, the guys wrap the rope tightly around Joose’s
. But when Joose arrives, the spirit is so weak that Viira breaks
the rope around the starving one. That’s the frame story, but that’s not all.

Dancing Alpine Jaegers

Joose and Joose’s Rope are only in a supporting role based on Veijo Meri’s miniature novel
dramatized Manilla Rope, which premiered in March
at the Helsinki City Theatre. Close your field phone command
After that, a performance is brought to the audience that takes their breath away and confuses them.
Already in the second line of the play, the sergeant major snarls half a dozen grumpy heads, and
I would like to place a simplified field milieu anyway
Härmä-Kauhava axis. But it goes wrong, because you know how to do it
Even in Häme, where the troops are returning from the front. During the trip, you will be told
Stories: There is a fallen soldier with a star flashing in his eye, there are dancing
Alpine Jaegers with flower hats, and there is a sergeant major who assures:
” I know how to deal with crazy people.

It is a carnivalization

The stories make you laugh and touch, the acting is amazing. From the traditional
However, it is not possible to talk about a play, as the plot is also intertwined with
justifying dramaturgical solutions to the audience, Veijo Meri’s
describing the writing process and lavish intertextual references
An unknown soldier. The viewer stays awake, because there is plenty to offer
for both the senses and the brain.
But where is the rope?
– The rope is not important. This is an allegorical whole thing,” the soldier explains
audience.
So the rope is a metaphor for something, but from what, Senior Assistant Katriina
Kajannes from the Department of Arts and Culture Studies at the University of Jyväskylä?
– Wait a minute, what can I say? The senior assistant is overwhelmed but recovers:
– The symbol is used to criticise the war and what is left in the hands of the individual.
There are certainly many other interpretations, he believes.
Kajannes mentions carnivalization, which is a familiar concept in literature
since antiquity.
” Serious issues are often presented by means of comedy,” he explains.

Joose’s luck

The realistic dimension of the story still leaves me wondering. Could Manila
tightly around my stomach to make it home alive from the front,” Juha Alho Ulvila
Rope weaving mill in Satakunnan Kiukainen?
– Manilla is a rough material. If you pull it tight, so can the spirit
I’m going to leave,” Alho muses.
According to him, manila was still a common material during the war
in rope making, but nowadays the use is less. Among other things, hemp
is
I’ve replaced Manilla as a rope material, even though Manilla has a lot of hemp
lighter.
Joose Keppilä would have had a bad time with the hemp rope.