Review: Pappas pojkar

Forty years per second

Same bedroom – different schedule.
Funeral and baptism or
weddings at the same time. It is
time the English writer
Simon Mendes da Costa
playing with before our eyes.

By more than forty years
in a second disappears
Through the door together
with a character arises
A connection, a condensed portrait
by both Louis and his
sons’ fates.

The author has taken advantage of
on secrets within the family
located somewhere
under the surface and often plague
air in an incomprehensible way
for future generations.
In Daddy’s Boys,
he has taken advantage of a whole bunch
such: infidelity, jealousy,
illegitimate child,
death.

All this packaged in – no
not a gloomy tragedy – but
A light-hearted comedy. On
The premiere called the director
Pentti Kotkaniemi on
guest author for a
poor man’s Chekhov – but
a little more towards my father’s rule
he probably plays at Lillans
planks.

Fast travel in time

Daddy’s boys begin in the double bed
in Louis (Sampo
Sarkola) and his wife’s bedroom.
But it’s not the wife
lying under the covers together
with Louis without
Isabella (Edith Holmström).
Through a bold
hope in time we find ourselves
in the next scene more than forty
years into the future and the same
Rapidly changing schedule
the author plays with
throughout the play.

This gives the play a feeling
of speed while at the same time
Unravels the family’s secret web
eventually.

Two brothers have been born
his father’s (Louis’s) funeral.
Sixten Lundberg plays
The slightly run-down elderly
the Nissan brother (Tony) and
Pia Runnakko with his swagger
Mrs. Sheila. The younger successful
and handsome Ferrari
the brother (Reggie) is interpreted
by Nicke Lignell and his
beautiful wife by Mia Hafrén.
The ensemble stands for skillful
comedy games where especially
jealous Tony and naïve
Sheila elicits laughter.

Since the author during the
Comedy grip hidden
Enormously tragic events
such as a child’s premature
birth and death, infidelity,
car accident/maybe suicide
more more, isn’t it
always so easy to emotionally
keep up with the turns.
In Lillan’s production is
Emphasis on the entertaining
and amusing and someone
Chekhov’s laugh-through-tears
a lawsuit does not arise.

Clearly entertaining

Daddy’s boys offer a
Solidly written and skillfully
played comedy that, through
its speed makes the evening
suffer quickly. The fast, filmatic
The clips between
The different timetables are part of the
The most fascinating of the evening
deal. In addition to this, the performance breathes a sigh of relief
A happy-golucky
atmosphere where disappointments,
love, hate and death only
seem to be ingredients in
play. In the play, Sheila throws away
Develop different ideas about time
loosely based on Einstein’s
theories. Perhaps the author’s
and the director’s time perspective
is so remote that
We humans are just like ants
in the stack?