Background
Director’s word: Those silenced by shame get a voice
I started preparing this stage work more than two years ago. The world was shaken by the pandemic crisis, but war still seemed far away. I thought that we are already a long way away from our own wars and we can safely look at the more silent and painful aspects of our history. Perhaps the most meaningful aspect of the work would be to highlight the personal passage through the crisis as a point of view. But then everything changed and our collective wounds became visible in an instant. It turned out that there is only a thin translucent scar tissue on top of them. Dealing with our past is only just beginning.
Read moreAuthor’s Word: Silenced Stories
"Shouldn't we write about them? About the returning women?" asked my spouse on the sauna benches of our cottage cottage on a weekend in February many years ago.
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Theatre’s invisible events and agencies
In the listening performance What is seen and what's (left) behind the scene? Let's take a peek into the memories, experiences and feelings of the employees of the Helsinki City Theatre about their own work. Representatives of the technical staff, those whose work is done offstage, get to speak.
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Surreal gala evening
"I like the starting grids and point zero," says choreographer Anton Lachky, who arrived in Helsinki a day earlier for the first week of Special Night's rehearsals.
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Director’s Word – Fanny and Alexander
The design process of this work has been unusually long, it started already in the spring of 2018. The global pandemic postponed the premiere planned for 2020 by a couple of years.
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