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Director’s Word – Only the best for me
Only the best for me has started in a unique way: authors have been given free rein. The result is surprising, bold and absurd worlds that are rarely seen on the stages of Finnish city theatres. It is interesting how similar themes all three plays carry, even though they have been created separately from each other and from different starting points. They talk to each other and complement each other's ideas.
Read moreThe cyborg figure in the sea weather is the result of an exceptionally extensive collaboration
Maija Vilkkumaa's play Sea Weather features a cyborg character played by Kaisa Torkkeli, who has been designed, developed and manufactured by many departments and people. The character is only on stage for a few minutes, but still a huge amount of hours of work have been spent on creating it.
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In the strange retro-futuristic world of sea weather, friends cling to each other
Maija Vilkkumaa's debut play, Sea Weather, takes the viewer to a world that has become strange, where the streets of southern Helsinki have been washed into the sea. The city, which has been left on water, has forced residents to look for new ways to cope in life.
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A surprising encounter causes a fracture in the way of being
In Elina Snicker's short play Crying for a Stranger , two people with very different bodies and boundaries meet by chance in the changing room of a swimming pool. The encounter forces you to break away from your own way of being present.
Read moreMultidimensional drama-comedy examines the multiplier effects of divorce
The end of a marriage inevitably affects a wider group of people than the divorcing couple. The tighter lives are wrapped around each other, the more likely it is that other relationships will also become entangled in the breakup.
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The union of crying and laughter
"The success and failure of a marriage are much more mundane matters than the grandiose declarations that are uttered on the altar at the beginning of marriage or read as a verdict when a divorce is finalized.
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