Review: Kuka lohduttaisi Nyytiä?

Dumplings
My stomach trembles when the monster howls

“Once upon a time, little Dumpling was a dumpling, she lived all alone in her house, and the house was
also lonely. So twice alone, scared, he lit the fire at night
his lamps and crawled under the blanket to whine when he heard the pawing of the hemules
on the road and the Groke was screaming in the dark there.”

Tove Jansson’s book Who Would Comfort Nyyti? has been read through and
I know it almost by heart.

At the City Theatre’s Studio Elsa , Leena Fridell and Birgitta
The fairy tale dramatised by Ulfsson bursts into life as endearing. It is also
commendably sized for the smallest spectators, who may be the first
times in the theatre. The performance lasts only an hour and a half, including intermissions. At first
we will see a cabaret called Little So-and-So, where the actors will get to know each other,
Let’s sing Moominworld songs and keep the lights on safely.

Children are told that theatre is a place where adults can also
play. A dream game is played as a model: a couple of little viewers tell their dreams and
The actors act them out. The premiere needed, among other things, a nasty
a mathematics teacher, a student and his or her eyes flashing on the floor, and
a few ghosts. A risky section, but it worked well here and it was fun.

Reidar Palmgren was the charmingly masculine Nyyti and Milka Alroth there
the frightened Tuittu fluttering here. The narrator and the monster was Mari Vainio.
A narrator is needed, because there are not many lines in the fairy tale. Songs complement
story and everyone sings well. You couldn’t help but laugh when Nyyti
stopped touring the grandiose world and was suddenly so impossible
Brave that I couldn’t fit in my skin. The play Tuittu is braver and
plot than in the book, he becomes interested in Nyyti in advance and as if
surrenders to the rescue of a lonely troll. And the monster complains about the black gauze
very chillingly, his loneliness too: “I’m looking for another monster, just as icy
chilling.” Fortunately, Mari Vainio immediately shows the children that the monster was just a monster
a gauze bundle that fits on your lap.

The stage fairy tale lives on in Ann Granhammer’s simple and elegant
sets. The colors are clear and the lights create a stunning starry night,
silky undulating sea, sunrises and sunsets and the
Spinning carousels.

Who would comfort Nyyti? is very faithful to the book and tells an adult
necessary thing: acknowledging fear and loneliness,
About living through and overcoming. When two comfort each other, there is no longer
nothing to be afraid of.