Background
40 years of joint artistic journey
This season, Riitta Havukainen and Eija Vilpas star in two comedies, The Angry Widow on the Main Stage and Le Coq – The Battle for a Restaurant on the Arena Stage.
Read moreDance from the birth of a dance piece
The two-colour fugue is an abstract dance piece by Carl Knif to the music of Dmitri Shostakovich.
Read more“The story began to falter in the direction of comedy”
Why fluff up the past? As the Spanish philosopher Ortega y Gasset reminds us, the past is revenant in nature: it returns, repeats, renews. If you throw it out the door, it will definitely come back. If you want to win it, you should not ignore it, but keep an eye on it all the time so that you can dodge it.
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Already Clifford’s arrangement finds the core of the Humming Ridge
Emily Brontë's novel The Humming Ridge is one of the most significant Western novels. The masterpiece, which meanders from one generation to the next and focuses on abuse and psychological violence, tells the story of love between two people perhaps more poignantly than any other classic.
Read moreScreenwriter Heikki Vihinen: “The text would be nothing without the actors.”
In recent years, restaurant and food culture have taken on farcical features in the media.
Read moreDramatist Jo Clifford’s words for the Humming Ridge programme
I couldn't read this book when I was young.
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