Review: Kirje Siperiasta

IN SIBERIA, LOVE WAS SLAUGHTERED

A Helsinki-based
Amos Anderson Museum
The sixth floor is currently in operation
in the evenings as a theatre, when half a hundred
one viewer at a time
Lilga Kovanko’s transformation
Elna Sundgren as Schdanoff,
one of the reasons for Stalin’s persecutions
of millions of victims.

Stalin’s killing has been written about
so much so that many
might be numb to the whole thing,
but still Lilla Teatern’s
Brevet
från Sibirien play awakens
to think again
what happens when
One madman takes over the power of millions
people’s lives. Drama
based on Christian Sundgren’s
book of the same name,
where Elna is stored
Sundgren Schdanoffin
An account of the pain of his life
years.

Although the performance only has
one person, it’s not just
monologue, but Milja Sarkola’s
direction and Lilga Kovankon
interpretation make it a play,
which at least the premiere audience
followed for an hour and a quarter
with unshakable concentration.
Visible red brick of the house structures
the surface is like that of the Lubyanka
Borrowed from the cellars
and those hung on the wall of the public space
Mark Maher Exhibition
Facial images bring to mind
Secret Police Archives. The play
Bringing to the museum is
successful experiment: Brevet från
Siberia has been surrounded by
with an atmosphere that almost the viewer
working at your fingertips
Kovanko contributes to the supplement.

The story of the play is not unique,
rather,
On the contrary. With his father’s work
Helsinki resident who moved to Russia
The family returns to the revolution
from the witch’s cauldron to Finland,
but with a Russian
married daughter Elna stays with her family
to Kamenskoye.
At the end of the thirties
The man is imprisoned and the hell
Doors open to Siberia – the result
is the same as that of many
for others as well.

The play teaches how
Hope makes a person endure
almost impossible and what does it look like
It feels like when you hear that
However, hope has only been
as a pledge for nothing. The story is almost
stereotype of its kind. For the viewer
makes it touching
and unique Lilga Kovanko,
a master of his trade. He does not
play Elna Schdanoff, she
is Elna Schdanoff.