Divina Commedia is a theatre specular which translated Dante’s masterpiece into contempopary, multilayered theatre language. Created by Myllyteatteri, inviting together a multidisciplinary international group of theatre artists from Finland, Portugal, Greece and Japan, the spectacular was premiered successfully in a unique site specific, an abandoned marble quarry in Portugal in July 2012. The performance […]
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Myllyteatteri together with its international co-organisers is making a work-in-progress out of Dante’s master work Divina Commedia. The structure being the same as Dante wrote it: Hell – Purgatio – Paradise, a group of professional artist from the corners of Europe (Finland, Portugal and Greece) are answering the same questions as Dante did: What is
SAARI – THE ISLAND is AVAILABLE FOR TOURING. “… the most enigmatic production on this year’s Fringe… Saari has a surprising amount to say about solitude, companionship and what it means to be human.” – Roger Cox, Edinburgh Festivals On Saari (The Island) two strangers, played by a Japanese and a Finnish actor, retreat to
Myllyteatteri has been artistically in charge in 2009 and 2010 of making the biggest theatre production in Finland: the Easter play Via Crucis which happens in downtown of Helsinki on streets and turns the city of Helsinki into a divine stage. The play has gathered 15.000 spectators. Via Crucis on the national news Katsojan otos
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A play based on Euripide’s Medeia. A modern tragedy about the “right of freedom” of today: a single mother to whom child is too much, and the busy society to whom the single mother’s ask for help is too much. The winner of the Tragedy Competition in the Theatre Tent 2008. On stage: Hanna Raiskinmäki
A performance about how the society narrows the human being in working life of today. On stage: Minna Krook, Kaisa Niemi, Jarkko Nyman, Jukka Ruotsalainen, Miira SippolaOn video: Paula KoivunenDirection: Kaisa-Liisa LogrenScenography and dress design: Laura PoranenLight design: Heikki PaasonenMusic design: Jukka RuotsalainenMovement: Kaisa NiemiDramaturgy: Kaisa-Liisa Logren, Miira Sippola and the whole teamProduction:
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A tragi-comical performance about hunger in all its forms. The Call Of The Empty Stomach Brochure On stage: Paula Koivunen, Maritta Kuula, Kaisa Niemi, Matti Onnismaa, Niko Rajala, Timo Ruuskanen, Niina Tamminiemi ja Kaisa-Liisa LogrenScenography and dress design: Aili Ojalo Light design: Juho RahijärviScript and direction: Miira Sippola Share on facebook Facebook Share on twitter
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Martin Crimps postmodern play got baroque clothes in Myllyteatteri’s first big production in an old mill which we found to be a great performing place. The critic thanked for a good analysis of today – “hasn’ the western culture actually made the whole circle to the egoistic times of baroquea” and the rude performance. Helsingin
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Divina Commedia 3.0 is the result of two years work-in-progress based on the Divine Comedy of Dante Alighieri. First approach was seen in Helsinki in 2011, the second in Portugal in 2012, and finally on the National Theatre of Macedonia. Myllyteatteri was awarded with The Best Performance Prize in Skupi ITF festival, held for the
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