Ministeriä viedään
Note: No longer in repertoire!
The well-whipped cream of Finnish politics, familiar from the smash hit Munaako herra ministeri, is back together again!
The well-whipped cream of Finnish politics, familiar from the smash hit Munaako herra ministeri, is back together again! Affairs of state are soon forgotten and the doors of Hotel Vaakuna swing open and shut at breakneck speed as Minister Reino Viljanen (Esko Roine) is consumed by carnal hunger. Minister Viljanen is about to find himself at the centre of yet another scandal, and his affair with the Prime Minister’s delectable aide (Sari Siikander) threatens to come to light as reason repeatedly suffers a landslide defeat at the hands of desire. Viljanen’s uptight political special adviser and amateur in love, Mika Pöntinen (Asko Sarkola), must once again tie himself in knots and keep his wits about him as he covers the Minister’s tracks. Accustomed to cleaning up the Minister’s messes, Pöntinen must now draw on all his talents to untangle his own complications – while saving the Minister from yet another scandal in the process. Ministeriä viedään is Ray Cooney’s riotous farce, updated for present-day Finland, and it will leave you hoping that it really is all based on nothing more than a wild and inexhaustible imagination. After the spring election, audiences will be laughing with abandon!
Arena Stage, Hämeentie 2
Cast Heidi Herala, Santeri Kinnunen, Vappu Nalbantoglu, Esko Roine, Eero Saarinen, Eppu Salminen, Asko Sarkola, Sari Siikander, Kaisa Torkkel, Eija Vilpas
Finnish translation Pentti Järvinen
Directed by Neil Hardwick
Set design Antti Mattila
Costume design Irmeli Toivanen
Lighting design Kari Leppälä
Sound design Eradj Nazimov
Make-up design Anne Gorlewski-Leino
Hair design Taina Tervo



















