Review: Everstinna

Heidi Herala shines and sparkles in The Colonel

As author Rosa Liksom aptly promised moments before the premiere of The Colonel, the play adapted from her book will not disappoint the audience.

The magical magic of Lapland at the beginning creates an intensity that carries the performance to the end.

Heidi Herala’s Colonel shines and sparkles, rages and rages, but in the end she calms down and calms down. Such a perfectly suitable and successful role falls on an actor perhaps once in a lifetime.

The events of The Colonel, based on reality, take place before and after the Second World War. The story has been inspired by author Annikki Kariniemi and her
marriage.

The play focuses not only on the violent love story of an older officer and a young woman, but also on arbitrariness and extremism. An enthusiastic colonel who believes in authority, she only discovers her truth after she has been defeated. Eventually, life also shows her its gentle side.