Review: Liliom

The nobility of acting in Liliom

Ferenc Molnár is one of the best-known Hungarian writers,
whose play Liliom premiered at the end of October in Helsinki
At the City Theatre. The writer moved during World War II
United States and died there a few years after Hungary had been taken
to the socialist camp. He wrote Liliom already in 1908.

Liliom is a classic story about a clean-faced young woman and a woman who has experienced life
of the love of the scoundrel. Now this eternal drama is seen as stunningly great
in which the cast includes such a talented cast that it
The front is pale. If Martti Suosalo is already the country’s number one actor
and does his role unsteadily, he is now well on his way to becoming
The memorable Liliom in the history of the City Theatre.

Liliom’s story is always topical, meandering, surprising, even dreamlike.
As a realization of what is now being seen, it is above all the work of its director Tamás Ascher,
set designer Zsolt Khell and the rest of the
team fireworks.

The acting is precise and the situations are so subtly controlled that
You look at the story like your neighbors. I wouldn’t want to leave this play,
Even though the story is unhappy in many ways.

In addition to Suosalo, the cast includes Jonna Järnefelt, Liliom’s
Juli-wife, Miina Turunen, friend Marina, Jari Pehkonen
Keikarina, Riitta Havukainen as Mrs. Muskát, Kristiina Elstelä
Mrs. Hollunder, Antti Litja as Inspector, Jyrki Kovaleff
Aarno Sulkanen as Lizmann. Many of them can be said to be
So Karelian roots have also raised leading actors.

The play, produced as a Finnish-Hungarian collaboration, reaches people
once again as a selfish aspirant who is capable of deceiving and deceiving,
to deny and harden. But there is one who is genuine, in front of whom the hard
even the defiled Liliom is unarmed: this melter is a child.

The final scene is cutting in its sensitivity. How many of today’s spouses
and how many children are totally deprived of the right to
older. The loss can be really harrowing. A lot is left behind in a good drama
but also to provide sufficient resources for possible solutions. Lily
is a success.