Background
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.
Read moreTowards the light of summer
It is the spring of 1945. World War II is coming to an end, and German soldiers are boarding evacuation ships in northern Norway. Women who worked for the German army are left on the beach and taken to Norwegian prison camps. When a guard releases a small load of prisoners, five women from northern Finland decide to walk home through burnt and mined Lapland.
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