Divina Commedia

DIVINA COMMEDIA as international theatre co-operation and work-in-progress: Finland’s premier in Helsinki in October, 2011
Myllyteatteri together with its international co-organisers is making a series of new theatre plays out of Dante’s master work Divina Commedia.

The structure being the same as Dante wrote it: Hell - Purgatio – Paradise, a large group of younger generation professional artist from the corners of Europe (Finland, Portugal and Greece) are answering the same questions as Dante did: What is the meaning of life? What is the hard core of the human being?  

Finland’s premier was seen in Helsinki Suvilahti, Tiivistämö in October 12th. The performance will be developed during the winter 2011-12 and is seen in Portugal Estremoz at an old marble quary as a part of Colecção B, Associação Cultural - Escrita na paisagem -festival. The Greek participants come from the cultural organisation in Athens: Art Syndicate. 

Myllyteatteri’s production team for Divina Commedia: 

Actors: Idalotta Backman, Jaakko Kiljunen, Ulla Raitio, Yuko Takeda and Tuomas Tulikorpi

Director: Miira Sippola
Visual design: Aili Ojalo
Sound design: Johanna Storm
Composing: Timo Muurinen
Light designer: Matti Jykylä
Producer: Katri Muhonen

DIVINA COMMEDIA -project is a part of the EU Cultureprogram 2007-2013.