Review: Täydellinen persikka

ACTING OUT A BYGONE WORLD

On the big stage of the Helsinki City Theatre, his author
Ferenc Molnár’s The Perfect, which premiered on its 130th birthday
peach has previously been seen in Finland under the name Drama in the Castle.

The perfect peach belongs to a series of theatrical treats. As such, it
is a continuation of the City Theatre’s Main Stage Hinges and
sardines, or rather its historical predecessor. When
In the previous one, we are preparing a performance for the stage, we are in this
questions of writing. How to start a play, how
build voltage at a critical point?
What makes plays worthwhile
write, not process.

We are the creators and personalities of operetta
world. Theatre is primarily a technical performance, an entertainment production
In a luxurious backdrop.
The central trio is made up of a playwright couple working together
(Asko Sarkola and Eero Saarinen) and a young composer (Pekka
Strang), which the pair has “adopted” to create sweet tunes
operetta.
The plot is built around love and infidelity, of course.
In the castle, where the trio has been invited to visit, there is also a young
the composer’s beloved, delightful operetta diva Ilona (Vappu
Nalbantoglu). And – oh horror – his former relationship, expired
first lover Almády (Carl-Kristian Rundman). And of course, the worst
happens. So how to avoid the self-destruction of a young talented composer?

The name change to Perfect Peach aims to emphasize the importance of playfulness
erotic tone, but in the end the Latin remains very chaste, after the
the petty naughtiness of the world. The television series The Past World
as a visual reference, Sarkola and Saarela are present on the shoulders of a relaxed
as elegantly thrown sweaters. The idle upper class of the past
life is also the rhythm of the performance directed by Frej Lindqvist .