Note: No longer in repertoire!

Due to the uncertainty of the coronavirus situation, Helsinki City Theatre is cancelling all performances for the spring 2021 season.

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In a work written by Giovanni Boccaccio in the 14th century, ten young people flee the Black Death, or plague, from the city of Florence to the countryside. To entertain each other, they tell funny stories, often about love and eroticism – things that take your mind as far away from death as possible.

The Renaissance classic Decamerone has only been performed on stage in Finland a few times before. Now it feels particularly topical.

Helsinki City Theatre and the Theatre Academy of the University of the Arts Helsinki have started a collaboration that brings acting students to Studio Pasila every spring.

Translators: Ilmari Lahti, Vilho Hokkanen
Arrangement and direction: Akse Pettersson

Cast: Ola Blick, Tuulia Eloranta, Roderick Kabanga, Eeva Kaihola, Ella Lymi, Eeva Mäkinen, Carlos Orjuela, Jasir Osman, Tuuli Paju, Denisa Snyder, Milla Tissari and Daniel Virtanen.

Set design: Antti Mattila
Costumes: Sanna Levo
Lighting design: Kristian Palmu
Sound design: Matti Raita
Camouflage design: Henri Karjalainen and Jaana Nykänen

“Boccaccio’s excesses and his detachment from the moral concepts of this time feels fresh in this context and with this particular group, even though at the same time it is a matter of life and death.” – Akse Pettersson