Background
Author’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.
Read moreOn the border between the visible and the invisible
Childhood. Family. Love. Imagination, art. Religion. Violence. Bergman's way of pushing us to big subjects and transporting us on the border between the visible and invisible worlds feels close to me.
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