Luonnon laki
Note: No longer in repertoire!
A fiercely serious and divinely funny play. Nature has its laws, and human beings have their nature.
Kari Hotakainen’s Luonnon laki plunges its audience into a situation where the private and personal suddenly become part of a wider social reality. There is a crash on the road, and geothermal heating entrepreneur Rautala (Pertti Sveholm) is thrust into another reality. The public purse is running dry, and cuts to government spending affect everyone. The practical measures are led by the Cutter, who left a grey cottage to make his way in the world. His task is a painful one: how do you break ugly news gently to ministers and citizens? And how does a young man arriving in Finland from Sierra Leone via Sweden see it all? In this play, horror and beauty, life and death, tears and laughter trade places in the blink of an eye. Luonnon laki is a fiercely serious and divinely funny play. Nature has its laws, human beings have their nature, and Hotakainen has a perspective few others possess.
Pengerkatu Stage, Pengerkatu 11
Cast Pertti Sveholm, Iikka Forss, Sari Haapamäki, Sanna-June Hyde, Matti Leino, Matti Olavi Ranin, Leena Rapola, Matti Rasila, Ursula Salo, Marjut Toivanen
Dramatisation Sami Keski-Vähälä
Director Milko Lehto
Set design Janne Siltavuori
Costume design Riitta Röpelinen
Choreography Sari Haapamäki
Lighting design Mika Ijäs
Sound design Maura Korhonen
Make-up and hair Tuula Kuittinen














