Sylvi ja Anita

Pieni näyttämö
Ensi-ilta 2.2.2012
2 h 10 min
Basic ticket 26 - 37 €

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The play depicts the relationship between two different women, Sylvi Kekkonen and Anita Hallama, with Urho Kekkonen and each other.

A play about women who fell in love with Urho Kekkonen. Sylvi and Anita offers a front-row seat in the middle of President Kekkonen’s inner circle from 1963 until Sylvi Kekkonen’s death in 1974. The play depicts the relationship of two different women, Sylvi Kekkonen and Anita Hallama, with Urho Kekkonen and the relationship between the two women.

Dramaturgy: Merja Turunen
Control: Kari Rentola
Set and costumes: Katariina Kirjavainen
Lighting design: Risto Heikkerö
Sound Design: Antero Mansikka
Camouflage and hairstyles: Tuula Kuittinen

Cast Eeva-Liisa Haimelin, Heidi Herala and Ville Sormunen

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Kaksi naista istuu vierekkäin tummaa taustaa vasten. Vasemmalla olevalla naisella on valkoinen pusero ja harmaa hame, kun taas oikealla olevalla naisella on mustalla reunuksella varustettu ruutumekko ja helmikaulakoru. Molemmat vaikuttavat mietteliäiltä.

Kaksi naista istuu valkoisilla tuoleilla vastakkain lavalla. Toisella on ruskeankeltainen mekko ja hän näyttää vakavalta, kun taas toinen värikkääseen mekkoon pukeutunut nainen elehtii puhuessaan. Taustalla on pöytä, jossa on lasiesineitä, dramaattisessa valaistuksessa.

Kaksi naista istuu vastakkain valkoisilla tuoleilla valaistun kattokruunun alla, ja taustalla on juhla-ateriaa varten katettu pöytä; toisella on viininpunainen mekko, toisella värikäs hihaton mekko.

Siniseen takkiin ja mustaan hameeseen pukeutunut nainen tanssii valkoiseen paitaan ja mustiin housuihin pukeutuneen miehen kanssa. Molemmat hymyilevät ja pitävät toisiaan kädestä, ja he vaikuttavat iloisilta näyttämön kaltaisessa ympäristössä.

Vanhempi nainen pitkässä kermanvärisessä mekossa seisoo tummaan laivastopukuun pukeutuneen miehen vieressä, jolla on mitalit ja kamera kaulassaan. Molemmat katsovat eteenpäin lavalla kirkkaassa valaistuksessa.

Lavalla seisoo kolme ihmistä: vanhempi nainen pitkässä valkoisessa mekossa, nainen kultakuvioisessa mekossa ja kaulakorussa sekä mies mustassa sotilasunivormussa, jotka kaikki näyttävät keskustelevan.

Lavalla esiintyy kaksi naista; toinen mustapukuinen, huivipäinen nainen lohduttaa toista valkoihoista naista, joka näyttää tunteikkaalta ja suutelee ensimmäisen naisen kättä. Kohtaus on dramaattinen ja ilmeikäs, ja se viittaa tuen tai lohdutuksen hetkeen.

Kaksi naista esiintyy lavalla; toisella edessä on ruudullinen huivi ruskeankeltaisen mekon päällä ja hän näyttää tunteelliselta, kun taas toisella taustalla on aurinkolasit, päähuivi ja ruudullinen asu.

Kaksi vintage-asuihin pukeutunutta naista poseeraa valokuvaa varten; toinen istuu ruudullinen huopa sylissään, toinen seisoo vieressä aurinkolasit ja huivi päällään. Pukuun pukeutunut henkilö ottaa kuvan teatteritilassa.

Kaksi naista seisoo yhdessä; toinen harmaahiuksinen nainen lukee lehteä, kun taas toinen tummahiuksinen ja kaulakoru päässä puhuu ja elehtii kädellään. He näyttävät olevan näyttämöllä, mahdollisesti esittämässä kohtausta.

Kaksi naista seisoo tiiviisti vierekkäin; toisella valkoisessa puserossa on avoin sanomalehti kädessään, kun taas toinen mustassa topissa ja kultaisessa kaulakorussa katsoo häntä mietteliäänä. Tausta on tumma ja epätarkka.

Teatterimeikissä ja -puvussa oleva henkilö istuu penkillä, katsoo alaspäin kädet ristissä, huiviin käärittynä, tähtitaivaan taustaa vasten.

Nainen polvistuu lavalla ja lukee paperia, jota ympäröivät hajallaan olevat arkit, kun taas toinen nainen seisoo taustalla pitelemässä kirjaa. Heidän takanaan on kaksi valkoista tuolia. Kohtaus on dramaattinen ja teatraalinen.

Kolme näyttelijää näyttämöllä: kaksi vintage-tyyliseen asuun pukeutunutta naista seisoo valkoisten tuolien vieressä vastakkain, ja tummapukuinen mies seisoo heidän välissään ja takanaan tummaa taustaa vasten.

Vanhempi nainen seisoo beigeen kaapuun pukeutuneena, kirja kädessään ja rintaansa puristaen, mietteliään näköisenä. Hän seisoo lähellä tummaa seinää, jossa on heikko heijastus, ja hänen vieressään näkyy valkoinen tuoli.

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Strong drama about Kekkonen’s women Author Panu Rajala is right in his assessment that it is not insignificant what is happening behind the shadowy façade of power. The role models of Rajala’s play Sylvi and Anita , Sylvi Kekkonen and Anita Hallama , were wise and tough women in the life of President Urho Kekkonen . They had to be deeply aware of the significance of their decisions and moves to the moods of the country’s leader. Ambassador Jaakko Hallama’s wife Anita’s relationship with Kekkonen, which began in the 1960s, was an open secret at the time. Rajala’s play focuses on two women in a square drama. Anita Hallama herself wrote in 2001 in her book Sydänn kieli sydänlle (The Language of the Heart) that “four people were aware of what was happening; everyone accepted it for their own reasons and even consciously – or unconsciously – acted in the direction that our communication with Urho Kekkonen continued. No one can understand such a thing except the one who has fallen into it, and perhaps not even he in all respects.” Sylvia is played by Sylvi Kekkonen’s sister’s daughter Eeva-Liisa Haimelin, who in her premiere on the small stage of the Helsinki City Theatre managed to create a physically familiar character with a twist that her contemporaries did not see in public. Sylvi knew about Urho’s women, but she did not tolerate public embarrassment.

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Arvio

Through the eyes of womenThe silent triangle drama of President Urho Kekkonen and the two loves of his life still fascinates me. Mrs. Anita Hallama (Heidi Herala) is not thrilled when she is asked to accompany President Urho Kekkonen’s wife Sylvi (Eeva-Liisa Haimelin) on a representative trip to Yugoslavia in 1963. On the third night of the trip, however, a silent love drama begins, which is the subject of the Helsinki City Theatre’s play Sylvi and Anita . From the very beginning of author Panu Rajala’s fictional play, which is based on real life, it is clear that women do not like each other. The president’s wife is depicted as a grey sparrow who prefers to be alone than to her husband’s court. Mrs. Hallama, who is married in her own right, is a noble and bloody, ruthless woman of race, who goes crazy over the president’s attention and starts a relationship with him. The story is told through the eyes of women. The president can be seen on stage as mere reflections. Although the fragile Sylvi is hinted at accepting her husband’s mistress, the play repeats the offended woman’s wish: a fine woman could have taken care of it earlier.

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Kekkonen’s womenThe theme of the play Sylvi and Anita is intriguing, because the main characters represent our recent history and the pinnacle of power. The spouse of Jaakko Hallama, a civil servant at the Ministry for Foreign Affairs and later a long-time ambassador to Moscow, was assigned to accompany Sylvi Kekkonen to President Urho Kekkonen’s visit to Yugoslavia in 1963. During the trip, a passionate love affair between the president and Anita Hallama was ignited, which lasted for years.So did the friendship between Sylvi Kekkonen and Anita Hallama, even though the drama involving four people was complex and extremely sensitive. The relationship was once an open secret. Panu Rajala has written a play on the subject, Sylvi and Anita, for the small stage of the Helsinki City Theatre. The role of Sylvi Kekkonen is interpreted wisely and sensitively by her niece, actress Eeva-Liisa Haimelin. You couldn’t imagine a better interpreter for the role of the bloody and strong-willed Anita Hallama than Heidi Herala. She makes one of the most impressive roles of her career as the woman who ran both Kekkonen and the embassy in Moscow.Kari Rentola’s direction skillfully shifts the spotlight from Sylvi to Anita, and only Ville Sormunen, who plays several minor roles in addition to them, is seen on stage.

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Kekkonen loved in a disgustingly realistic wayThe two women finally understood that jewellery is more permanent than love Many legends were told about President Kekkonen , some true, some not. Some were able to tell that the president had a small affair with a lady, some did not believe this. Over the years, the number of wise men grew, and a picture of a triangle drama began to take shape, in which the President himself, his wife Sylvi Kekkonen and, as the third wheel, Mrs. Anita Hallama, the wife of Ambassador Jaakko Hallama , began to form. Between the three of them, a play was played with “knowledge” and “love” as the watchwords and which never led to any final solution, the parties hanging on to it as if on a loose log. From the ingredients of this story, Panu Rajala has put together a play called Sylvi and Anita, which premiered at the Helsinki City Theatre last Thursday.Let it be said at the outset that the story would have had the ingredients for all kinds of fabrications, but Rajala has not grabbed this hook, but the result is a subtle story about how love ignites, burns and goes out. A formula that the chemists of love have followed from side to side of the world and that has almost always resulted in a zero-sum game, so it is now. Only in Hollywood can love stories end happily, but luckily Rajala is not a Hollywood man, but to use Simo Penttilä’s vocabulary, he could be called a “disgusting realist”. In addition to Rajala, the play is made into a fine performance by its two main characters, Eeva-Liisa Haimelin in the role of Sylvi and Heidi Herala in the role of Anita. Kekkonen hovers over everything, Sylvi’s love has already burned out, but the flow of information works. Anita is not based on information, now we proceed with emotion. Haimelin has conjured up an expression on Sylvi’s face that does not bode well, it has the crooked smile of a winner, a winner that is only revealed at the end. Heidi Herala’s roars have strength and despair at the same time, “Don’t you old man already decide something”. Jaakko Hallama knows, if he knows, that his serious illness did not give him a visible place in real life, nor in the play. And he is not needed for the play, there is no division of four in three. Hallama was necessary for Kekkonen, especially in the direction of the East, he served his principal, whether Anita was his wife or not. The plot and solutions of the play are as old as the man himself. If there had been one Adam in paradise but two Eves, the result would be the same. In this particular struggle, Sylvi Kekkonen was a winner, at least in the sense that she had an impact over time with her knowledge. The brooch given to Anita by Sylvi before her death may have been a symbol of something that should have remained only known to Urho Kekkonen. When it appeared around Anita Hallama’s neck, it broke something that was supposed to be a secret from here to eternity. By donating the jewelry to her contestant, Sylvi showed that she knew more than UKK had anticipated. Was it so that happiness was not a gift of any kind, happiness was only a loan – because so much belongs to love.

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