Review: Tiimi

NOT JUST A TEAM, BUT AN ENTIRE GENERATION

– Pasi Lampela’s play about forty-year-old yuppies is a touching comedy.

Pasi Lampela’s head doesn’t freeze much. After all, the man has written a play from scratch.
Paradoxically, The Team is also the best of Lampela’s works to date.
The play tells the story of a production company run by career missiles in their forties, which, after ten years of churning out commercials, has completed its first feature film.
The funeral of a screenwriter who committed suicide coincides with the same seam. The manuscript of a great contemporary novel can be found in the man’s estate. It turns out to be a bunch of blank papers.

The team is not full of nothing, not at all.
Lampela’s previous plays have resembled more glazed anecdotes. The Team , which approaches the author’s own time and world of experience, is clearly a more mature production.
Perhaps there is a personal touch that can no longer be overcome with attitude alone.
Gone is the uncontrollable shooter and self-righteous self-aggrandizement. Also gone is the stiff mix of media sexiness and media criticism.

As a play, the team is more focused and, above all, airy.
The team is open to the audience, and in that way honest.

Of course, Lampela pulls in the penttigris and jarisa flies, and it is probably no coincidence that the film produced by the company is about Eugen Schauman and the years of oppression. However, the flashiness does not flutter around the play’s edges as extra extras.
Relaxation and confidence can also be seen in Lampela’s work as a director. The performance has intensity and broad humour. The entire team deserves thanks for the successful outcome.

The actors clearly love these over-excited yuppies whose primary task is to dominate the stage.

Sara Paavolainen is a true beast in the role of the director of a production company. You can’t help but fall in love with the adolescent self-love of the feisty ice queen. At the other extreme, the chameleon is the widow of a writer played by Ursula Salo , who has sunk into the abyss of family life.
The tension between the two female characters offers an experience that does not easily fade from the mind.

Carl-Kristian Rundman and Juha Veijonen and the internal contradictions of the “sons of the company” are also captivating. The comic melancholy is so contagious that it is easy to agree with the journalist’s thought: We are not a team, we are a goddamn generation!
Iiris, a twenty-year-old office assistant played by Merja Pietilä, who spends her free time at S/M clubs, puts the exhausted forty-somethings behind her cappuccino cups into their proper proportions.
Is he any less ridiculous?