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Review: Kuka pelkää Virginia Woolfia?

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   Edward Albee, Tennessee
Williams, Arthur Miller
.  These mid-century
American playwrights have shown in the last couple of years
two main stages in Helsinki,  the National Theatre and the
At the City Theatre, the dullness of his lion’s claws.

Reko Lundan’s City Theatre’s small
Albee’s Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf? is great. A few
Every minute, the audience is thrown from rancid laughter to cutting sadness.
Sara Paavolainen and Kari Heiskanen play
in the roles of an  older married couple, an age-old game that has become a game
far away.

   Young couple Kari-Pekka
Toivonen
and Vappu Nalbantoglu begin to realise their youth
in the midst of its omnipotence, that it is on its way to the same
into a vicious circle.

The timelessness of the text is wonderful, Juha
The brilliance of Siltanen’s
Finnish translation, Teppo Järvinen’s
the ingenuity of the set design. The way each character uses the labyrinth,
communicates a lot, but nothing would be anything without Paavolainen and Heiskanen’s
teamwork, the ability to tell a story about the movements of the human mind and dangerous
games.

   The performance is so good that the inside
cold and hot, the viewer remembers again why theatre is an experience
invincible. The final scene is etched in the mind forever, and the only thing left for reason is
silence.