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Huom! Poistunut ohjelmistosta!
Translated from P.G. Wodehouse’s English adaptation by Juhani Lindholm
Director: Frej Lindqvist
Set design: Hannu Lindholm
Costumes: Sari Salmela
Lighting design: Markku Penttilä
Sound design: Kirsi Peteri
Cast: Antti Litja, Vappu Nalbantoglu, Carl-Kristian Rundman, Eero Saarinen,
Asko Sarkola, Pekka Strang, Joachim Wigelius, Sami Paasila, Petri Palo
BITING PEACHFerene Molnár’s (1878-1952) play The Perfect Peach, which premiered on the main stage of the Helsinki City Theatre, is a comedy depicting the social life of the 1930s, with an intellectual and cynically biting humour. The play has previously been performed in Finland under the name Juhlat linnassa.The events begin when playwright Sándor Turai (Asko Sarkola) and his colleague Mansky (Eero Saarinen) arrive at a luxurious hotel with their protégé, composer genius Albert Adam (Pekka Strang). The composer’s fiancée Ilona (Vappu Nalbantoglu) and her lover Almády (Carl-Kristian Rundman) are also present. The end result is a titillating jealousy farce. What makes the play interesting is its postmodernist, self-aware structure. In this, Molnár has been ahead of his time, as the play has not been modernized, but is performed in its original form. In the opening scene, the playwrights think about how the play should be started and how its characters could best be introduced to the audience. They end up with the simple solution that each person takes turns introducing themselves directly to the audience. And this is what is done. Turai and Mansky view writing as technical work and want to save their composer protégé from heartache, primarily to secure the box office success of their future plays. Molnár has anticipated the coming time here as well. At the end of the first act, we see three different versions of how to end the first act correctly. The composer, who has been broken by lovesickness, thinks that it should end with the composer’s suicide. However, playwrights do not think that such a melodramatic scene would work. Mansky, on the other hand, offers a rather pathetic solution, stating that it is only love sorrows that turn a boy into a man. In the end, we end up with a familiar and safe dramaturgical solution: a plot hook that leaves the next twist open. In addition, there is a play within a play on stage, and Almády has to repeat on stage several times that he is a tailspinner. Rundman’s performance as an aging ladies’ man who spits out long French names like cherry stones is hilarious. Sarkola is also excellent as a sarcastic playwright. The Perfect Peach is a play that makes you laugh genuinely and without artificial trickery. Ferene Molnár’s text has stood the test of time and has remained fresh – like a peach.
Lue lisääTHE PERFECT PEACH IS SARKOLA’S FEASTFiction about fiction.This recipe is used to create The Perfect Peach, which idolizes the French drama of the Hungarian writer Ference Molnár, and lightens the gloom of the life of the polar night people on the big stage of the Helsinki City Theatre.
Lue lisääLIGHTLY BITE INTO A PEACHWhen the Hungarian Ferenc Molnár’s (1878–1952) play Liliom premiered at the Helsinki City Theatre in 2004, its atmosphere was filled with stuffy pipes. Ilo was in the background as carousel music. The same author is the author of The Perfect Peach, which has now premiered at the same theatre. There is no sign of gloom, at least not in terms of the setting. The glorious castle and its servants get to witness a chain of events fueled by misunderstandings, which is based purely on comedy. The two-legged woman is the only common denominator in Molnár’s plays. The Perfect Peach plays with theatre, as its two main characters write plays for a living. It is as if we are not in the theatre at all and start by thinking about how difficult it is to start the performance, and before the intermission, we think about how to get the tension in that particular place and at the end agonize over the awkwardness of the last words.The theme continues throughout the performance and gets an extra boost when one of the authors saves his young friend’s love affairs with a plotting play text.
Lue lisääACTING OUT A BYGONE WORLDOn the big stage of the Helsinki City Theatre, his author Ferenc Molnár’s The Perfect, which premiered on its 130th birthday peach has previously been seen in Finland under the name Drama in the Castle. The perfect peach belongs to a series of theatrical treats. As such, it is a continuation of the City Theatre’s Main Stage Hinges and sardines, or rather its historical predecessor. When In the previous one, we are preparing a performance for the stage, we are in this questions of writing. How to start a play, how build voltage at a critical point? What makes plays worthwhile write, not process.We are the creators and personalities of operetta world. Theatre is primarily a technical performance, an entertainment production In a luxurious backdrop.The central trio is made up of a playwright couple working together (Asko Sarkola and Eero Saarinen) and a young composer (Pekka Strang), which the pair has “adopted” to create sweet tunes operetta.The plot is built around love and infidelity, of course. In the castle, where the trio has been invited to visit, there is also a young the composer’s beloved, delightful operetta diva Ilona (Vappu Nalbantoglu). And – oh horror – his former relationship, expired first lover Almády (Carl-Kristian Rundman). And of course, the worst happens. So how to avoid the self-destruction of a young talented composer?
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