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Cast: Jonna Järnefelt, Cecilia Paul, Leena Uotila
Translation: Gunilla Boëthius and Per Holmer
Director: Raila Leppäkoski
Set design: Antti Mattila
Costumes: Maija Pekkanen
Light: Jan-Erik Pihlström
Sound: Saku Korosuo
THE BLACK FEVER AFFECTS EVERYONEThe German-Argentine author Esther Vilar became famous with her book Der dressierte Mann in 1971, in which she questioned most of the arguments of contemporary feminists. According to Vilar, it was the men who were exploited by the women and not the other way around.In a TV duel a few years later, women’s rights activist Alice Schwarzer branded Vilar as “not only a sexist but also a fascist”. Esther Vilar felt she had to leave Germany because of death threats. She has continued her writing with: pamphlets in which she questions the accepted views of feminism and the left-wing movement, as well as a whole series of spiritual and tendentious plays.
Read moreFAXES ARE FLYINGYour husband, who is mine my husband, is her husband. Svartsjuka, performed at Lilla Teatern, the focus is on the man and yet there is no man. A man is emotions, women’s feelings that he wakes up.The Argentine-born writer Esther Vilar’s text is brilliant and it also works well with Raila Leppäkoski’s on the stage of Lillan. Fax fight over the man Leena Uotila, Jonna Järnefelt and Cecilia Paul knows their stuff. They sizzling, hissing and screaming Incited by jealousy – According to the title of the play.Quite charming in Vilar’s text is how a man has been made woman, status symbol. A man as a person and as a person is not so important, but his ownership is. Women are fighting for power, in this case owning a man, than the history of duelists.But does a battle victory bring a woman Good luck? You can go and see it.
Read moreBITTERSWEET TASTE OF JEALOUSYWhen jealousy knocks on the door, the world around us usually falls together. Jealousy is a phenomenon most of us have experienced and it usually Associated with everything from unbridled emotional storms to murder and God knows what.At Lilla Teatern, jealousy is rampant under Raila Leppäkoski’sdirection, partly as an emotional state, and partly as a driving force from the perspective of three women in the The bitter satire Jealousy by the German-Argentine writer Esther Vilar, known for the controversial book The Dressed Man (1971). The play had its world premiere in 2001 in Paris, while the performance at Lilla The theatre had its Finnish premiere. Struggle in monologue formThe main characters love all the same, in the play completely absent middle-aged little fat man, and the performance is in that sense It is unusual for the trio to never meet but to communicate – or really too separate monologues – with each other by fax, in their homes on different floors in a large housing complex somewhere in a major European city.The action is set in a sterile, bare room with a sofa, table and Large panoramic window. Here, the rug is initially pulled under the feet of the the 55-year-old star lawyer Helen (Leena Uotila) when she learns that the 40-year-old successful architect Yana (Jonna Järnefelt) seize her husband and demand a divorce. Soon Helen will have arranged with a hidden vantage point over her husband’s and Yana’s love nest and is not then to comment on their sexual games for the rival to say the least sarcastic words.The first act is one long naval battle out on the storm of jealousy sea. Veritable broadsides of sarcasm fly through the air and here are even Yana the winning party.In the second act, the constellations are turned upside down and give the play new life. The husband has abandoned his first oblique jump for the young 25-year-old student, yoga teacher and Buddhist Iris (Cecilia Paul). Her Buddhist theses that human suffering ends when you stop At first, longing drives the rivals to the brink of madness, but soon she herself has bitterly eaten up what she has said and in the end the circle is closed again. In the background, suitable melodic loops fade out of the tango Jalousie in Iiro Rantala’sdelicious piano interpretations. Unique concentrate Jealousy is a clever, biting and entertaining satire with serious undertones of a jealousy that is inherited from the play’s oldest to youngest – a jealousy that corrupts, humiliates but also becomes a drug You can’t do without.Jealousy is also a play in which the actors get play the whole register as the despised wife, the deceived mistress and the innocent rival. In other words, a excellent opportunity to see Leena Uotila’s, Jonna Järnefelt’sand Cecilia’s Paul’scraftsmanship in a unique concentrate.If the play is primarily written from a women’s perspective, with great recognition factor, preferably among middle-aged ladies, it also provides us men a healthy eye-opener about what we are and what we could be. Because once jealousy invites you to dance, the choreography is the The same for all of us. No matter how we take out the steps, we are still just as ridiculous and equally vulnerable.
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