Review: Kadonnut Pihlaja

Where is my daughter?

Peter Engkvist’s children’s play The Lost Rowan raises an important issue: What should a father teach his child about the world in order for him to survive in life? Is it enough to teach your child to feel fear and threat?

Sari Haapamäki and Sami Hokkanen master the delicious pantomime as they perform the many roles in the story written by Mike Kenny . Especially the baby bird hatching from Hokkanen’s egg and the frog of Haapamäki were hilarious to watch. Transfers from one role to another happen in one jump, and even the little viewers should have no trouble keeping up.
In his search for his daughter, the father himself learns how to nurture, feed and comfort. To everyone’s delight, the child is eventually found – with the very wolves that his father had warned him about.
Rich theatre that even adults enjoy watching.