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Cast
Sara Paavolainen, Kari Heiskanen, Vappu Nalbantoglu, Kari-Pekka Toivonen
Finnish translation Juha Siltanen
Direction Reko Lundan
Set design Teppo Järvinen
Costume design Maija Pekkanen
Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf is still one of the harshest depictions of marriage in playwriting
Read moreKari Heiskanen makes a handsome return to the stage with Edward Albee in the second lead role of Virginia Woolf
Read moreEdward Albee, Tennessee Williams, Arthur Miller. These mid-century American playwrights have shown in the last couple of years two main stages in Helsinki, the National Theatre and the At the City Theatre, the dullness of his lion’s claws. Reko Lundan’s City Theatre’s small Albee’s Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf? is great. A few Every minute, the audience is thrown from rancid laughter to cutting sadness. Sara Paavolainen and Kari Heiskanen play in the roles of an older married couple, an age-old game that has become a game far away. Young couple Kari-Pekka Toivonen and Vappu Nalbantoglu begin to realise their youth in the midst of its omnipotence, that it is on its way to the same into a vicious circle. The timelessness of the text is wonderful, Juha The brilliance of Siltanen’s Finnish translation, Teppo Järvinen’s the ingenuity of the set design. The way each character uses the labyrinth, communicates a lot, but nothing would be anything without Paavolainen and Heiskanen’s teamwork, the ability to tell a story about the movements of the human mind and dangerous games. The performance is so good that the inside cold and hot, the viewer remembers again why theatre is an experience invincible. The final scene is etched in the mind forever, and the only thing left for reason is silence.
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