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Helsinki City Theatre’s Always is a children’s theatre for school-age children, the message of which is aimed at adult audiences. The loss that has befallen the family has plunged the mother into depression. Grief and the joys of everyday life set the rhythm of the family’s survival story nicely acted.When a children’s play is based on a great tragedy, the solution involves a lot of risks. One of them is to subject the entire performance to tragedy so that nothing else in the whole speaks to, attracts or surprises the little viewer. At the other end of the spectrum, children’s stories are left to too small things: they tell about how a doll disappears, even though in the lives of real children, mothers and fathers often disappear. But still: the loss and discovery of a doll are also big things in a child’s world. Operating on scales is a delicate sport, but Helsinki City Theatre’s play Aina succeeds in this. One striking feature of modern children’s stories is the discussion of mental health problems. The environment itself is safe and middle-class, but the world is still full of inexplicable threats. Mental health problems also come up in Aina . The death of her father has led to her mother’s (Aino Seppo) depression. The family’s 11-year-old Aina (Vuokko Hovatta) runs her own and her 4-year-old little brother Aarre’s (Hannes Suominen) everyday life. At school, she has to answer her classmates’ questions about her father’s fate, and she also has to lie to her friendly uncle next door that everything is going well at home.
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