Note: No longer in repertoire!

This year’s Christmas play by the Helsinki City Theatre’s Shed theatre group for children and young people has been inspired by Charles Dickens’ classic work A Miser’s Christmas, based on which director Heikki Sankari and composer Tuomas Kesälä have created a new, Christmassy musical play.

The Miser’s Christmas takes place in 19th-century England, where the lives of poor children were hard. The use of child labour was common especially in cotton factories, where children’s small hands were used to care for and clean the yarn machines.

The setting for Saitur’s Christmas is a factory owned by the evil and stingy Saituri. Christmas is coming, but there will be no break for the children working in the factory, and there will be no food. The miser wants tooth and nail to keep the factory’s machines running and the money taps clinking. The children decide to do something before The Miser takes over the Christmas spirit of the whole city. What did the children come up with?

Will we finally get into the Christmas spirit in the city, or will the machines in the yarn factory run
even more often?

Cast: Eppu Salminen as Saituri and Shedi’s children and young people

Shed musical theatre gives children and young people aged 10–19 the opportunity
to engage in hobbies and make a Christmas musical together with the professionals of the Helsinki City Theatre
. With theatre as a hobby, children and young people get to not only act, but also dance and sing. The group works in cooperation with the ShedHelsinki Foundation.