Review: Myyrä
A MOLE DIGS OUT OF THE BUSHES OF FARCE
Jari Tervo’s Mole has taken shape
dramaturg Sami Keski-Vähälä
into a hilarious political
satire, in which it is necessary to
a lot of good old
Bush farce.
The central character: the old president
is tragic
character, it feels like he is the only one
the reins of the kingdom in their hands,
Others are drinking and splurging
And at the same time, doubts
The president to be a traitor.
The president has problems
with their conscience. He worries
Red prisoners who were forced to
in his youth.
He meditates with disgust on Stalin’s
murders, especially those of a young person
murder of a woman. However, he
doesn’t swing too much with your own people’s
sins. With them, he rules.
Antti Litja is excellent
President. He has recently
played several roles in the nation’s
great men, and not a single one
Statues. President of Litjan
carries the entire play.
In the beginning, the Mole is time
fragmented, a kind of sketch collection.
Without Litja, it’s all right
would crumble the power. Later story
starts to go smoothly, and the second act
puts together the plot pieces so well
than they can be assembled.
There is no point in real history from the performance
but a certain kind of
The general view is true. Fiction touches on
the truth sometimes deeper
than a hard fact.
Cruelty
Theatre is touched upon
In the carnivalesque film directed by Milko Lehto,
The adventures in the performance are
both Beria and Stalin,
Not to mention Brezhnev and Suslov
and there is a glimpse of Paavo
Even Väyrynen. Pertti Koivula
Stalin is a horrible, laughing
Psychopath, theatre of cruelty
is represented by Jouko Klemettilä’s Beriakin.
Beria Klemettilä ends up in Stalin’s
At the command of a ballet dancer,
in the case of small
Dance of swans. The performance is
In all its grotesqueness,
It’s great that he got a round of applause at the premiere
And rightly so.
Klemettilä’s second character,
Sampo Kajanne, the president’s fictional
illegitimate son, drunkard
gay, continues the cruelty style. He
deals with Finnish design glass
in a horrible way. But there is
An extremely talented diplomat.
Before the puritanical 1990s
In diplomacy, drunkenness does not
was not a vice. At most
It was a little embarrassing if a diplomat
or the foreign minister went out
at official dinners.
Who is
Mole?
In the mole they are looking for a mole so
The Communist Party of Finland
from the Central Committee as the Reich
from the highest authority. Jurassic
Karhu, a member of a communist family
has been recruited by the Finnish Security and Intelligence Service.
detective. He receives an order
investigate whether the President
Soviet spy.
He takes his work very seriously,
and doesn’t realize that he’s being used
good.
Rauno Ahonen plays Karhu
a little confused. He
is a very strange person,
because the son of a communist family
Supo has few
like a hawk chick in a chicken coop.
The Supo patterns are reminiscent of
a hint of Usko Kyykän
adventures. Especially Karhu’s
Communist family brings to mind
The Makkonen brothers.
Everything else except Litja, Ahonen
and Koivula-Stalin present
many different characters. Seppo
Maijala is a Soviet ambassador,
Belyakov and Stepanov
As a combination, it’s a bit of a sissy
done. As Brezhnev, he is a facsimile edition.
Pihla Penttilä is the punk detective of Supo,
Such would have been needed
even in real life.
Tiina Pirhonen’s sex-oozing
Commodore Aleksandra gets a man
like a man in his bed and to shed
among other things, secrets.
Elsewhere, he is a slob
The president’s mistress.
Speed and colour
is sufficient
Mole is insightfully staged
and costumed. Puffy, half-dead
The Soviet leaders have
A stunning sight with a tall hat
and piles of decorations.
There are funny scenes, for example
How many: Diver pushing
fish for high guests
lures, Ambassador Stepa
Marshal swimming in a hole in the ice
When Ustinov demanded that Finland
and the Soviet Union’s joint
military exercises,” the President replies
by singing the Rose of Kotka.
The music used in Mole is
often the Soviet anthem, Putin
I’m sure I wouldn’t like it here
as it is a Russian
The current national anthem, the latest
I said yes.
The mole is more spectacular
than thought-provoking, but
it captivates the viewer.
The performance lasts just under three hours,
And I never looked at the clock.
Fragmented Mole though
Yes. The dramatization of the book is not
easy and it hasn’t quite worked out
in this case either. Tervon
The novel is a stage performance
more profound.
The book’s brutal humour and
A certain cynicism are on the scene
escaped. I don’t know if it’s worth it
to yearn for the so-called. Drama
arc when the performance has color and
There is plenty of speed.