Review: Omaksi kuvakseen

In his own image, it was a shocking theatrical experience

Memories and emotions from childhood and adolescence shook Ismo Saarikoski.
Fact and fiction brought out Pentti Saarikoski’s genius and weakness.

A powerful, downright shocking experience,” Ismo Saarikoski described
play about his brother Pentti “Omaksi kuvaksi”.
At the beginning of the play, tears did not allow the rest of the audience to participate
bursts of laughter.
– In the second period, I already knew how to laugh, Ismo Saarikoski said.
In the play, Pentti’s family, father, mother and siblings have a significant
share. Ismo Saarikoski said that emotions rooted deep in childhood
erupted as a strong emotion. Similar feelings have been communicated by
his two sisters, Inkeri and Sirkka.
“I was at the premiere with my grandson Santeri. With Him we are not
have had time to unpack our experiences,” Ismo Saarikoski mentioned.
The next of kin looks at the play differently than the guest.
“We knew that the play was not a statue of Pentti or the family, but
events and their interpretation as a party to the proceedings. We siblings are
at least one of the best experts from Pentti’s first 20 years, Ismo
Saarikoski said.
The older brother thinks that the play does justice to Pentti. This was not
Just a drunken clown. He was an extremely talented and prolific writer and
A translator who worked hard even when he was in the hospital.
– Pentti’s self-destructive drinking didn’t feel so much on stage
as distressing as in his books The Drinker’s Diaries and Convalescent
diaries.

That’s how it was, I wonder if it went like that
At many points, it occurred to Ismo Saarikoski that this is how it was.
– In the play, the father gives a birthday speech to Pentti, who is turning 12.
The text exists, but not written by the father. It’s Pentti’s writing
to our children’s Sisarukset magazine.
Dad has a stack of books under his arm.
– Santeri Ivalo’s Collected Works is True. I don’t remember if they were
birthday present, and if they were Christmas presents, did Pentti get them or
whether we got both of our shares. In any case, I also read them carefully, Ismo
Saarikoski explained.
In some details of the play, Ismo Saarikoski wondered if it had gone
just like the writer-director interprets.
According to Ismo Saarikoski, his father was a lucky drunk who could have had a year
A clear season. For Pentti, drinking was almost everyday, milder
productive periods, and sometimes unrestrained drinking.
The children did not live in constant anxiety, but had fun at home
events. The father was not quite as much of an authority figure as the play depicts,
and Pentti didn’t take her quite so ironically. The father’s female friend did not
visited Saarikoski’s home. Ismo Saarikoski said he understands
dramatization.
“That’s how it should be in a play,” Saarikoski said.

Her father inspired her to write a magazine
– Pentti inherited writing from his father, but the language from his mother, Ismo Saarikoski
presented.
About one and a half hundred of his father’s newspaper articles have survived. The mother has
written estate, only a few letters and letters after the father’s death
poems.
Simo Saarikoski was a freedom and tribal warrior and in the traditional way
patriotic man. Pentti was a communist and was also a parliamentary candidate for the SKDL.
However, it is impossible to imagine that he would have bent to something
totalitarian doctrine or system.
There was a unique understanding between father and son.
“My father had all of Pentti’s books,” Ismo Saarikoski said.
Her father made sure that the family’s internal Sisarukset magazine was published in 1948
from several issues five years.
“He inspired me and demanded that the magazine be made. He only determined the content
once. After Mannerheim’s death, an article had to be written about him in a newspaper.
When the father turned 60 in 1960, the children made a single
anniversary issue. In its editorial, Pentti refers in a sensitive way to the father’s and
to the boy’s differences of opinion.

The play came as a surprise
Writer-director Tuija Töyräs was
writer sister, Sirkka Garam. They had a five-hour
discussion. Ismo Saarikoski clearly sensed his sister’s influence in some
.
Ismo would have liked to meet the director in advance to tell him
but without demanding them for the play.
– We brothers had a common room, our mutual boys’ things,
our sports and scouting. We went to the same school, Norssi. After Pentti has read
We were in the same class for five years, from the fourth
until the matriculation examination,” Ismo Saarikoski explained.
– Riku Kemppinen, who plays Ismo in the play, played Easter last spring
below. That was the first time I heard about the play,” Saarikoski said.

Quiet Pentti and sociable Ismo
The main role in the play about Pentti Saarikoski is played by Pentti Saarikoski.
In childhood, the parts were largely different.
“Pentti was quiet and lonely, I was lively and sociable. Pentti
was better in almost everything, but I was better at the school’s thousand-meter run
I won,” Ismo recalled.
He found his character satisfying, but he could have endured even tougher
characterizations of themselves.
– Pentti wrote a delicious description of me in the diaries of my youth:
“When I look at him, I get the same feeling as in a zoo
in front of the monkey cage.”