Review: Kaksi maailmaa

The Battle Between Two Loves at the City Theatre

The play Two Worlds , which premiered on Wednesday, is caught up in time in the same way as Our Son, which opened the autumn season. And in the same way, there is reality in the background, what is known to happen. Now, on the small stage of the City Theatre, people are asking how much evil can be done with good intentions.

We have only just been able to read the shuddering stories of those who have left religious sects about the atmosphere in these communities. Shackles, intolerant, extremist, professing only one truth. They tell about communities with such an atmosphere, including psychological violence.

Based on a film made in Denmark, Two Worlds is a story about just such a girl who fights to get rid of for love.

The girl is fighting between two worlds and two loves. The opposition is between a closed community that swears by one truth and love and the love the girl experiences in the rest of the world. The girl loves both of them and has to make a decision.

How much evil can be done with good intentions. The authors of the play emphasize that they have no intention of pointing, but the play does so when it reveals the cruelty with which differences are viewed under the guise of faith.

“The Lord is the truth” is the explanation for everything in the community. It makes the father abandon his daughter, the sister his sister. It leads to the death of the person involved in the accident, because community rules prohibit blood transfusions (against the person’s will, as I understand it).

As a counterbalance to cruelty and, in the opinion of an outsider, also selfishness, the play brings out the world of happiness in which the members of the community of faith live. They are truly blessed in their faith. With bright smiles in their eyes, they can only talk about Heaven becoming part of the believer and the end of the world that will be the fate of the outsider.

A play that works so strongly on an emotional level is demanding for the director. In his acting direction, Milko Lehto has embarked on bold emphases, which, thanks to the excellent actors, are also successful. The subject is full of extremes, which is why extremes are also appropriate in the presentation.

Successful theatrical solutions have also been found for the direction, specifically in bringing out the emotional world of the story. The sense of community that grips man in its stranglehold is palpable and present just as totally as it can be imagined to be in a community of faith such as the one depicted in the play.

If Two Worlds is a demanding job for a director, it is also demanding for the actors, especially for Rosanna Kemppi, who plays the main character. He has not been given a bridle and he does take advantage of the situation and let the feeling of fire come.

Kemppi’s role is to explode, get depressed, collapse, rejoice, burst with happiness so that you can see it. He does it brilliantly.