Performance

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

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 Sippola On video: Paula Koivunen Direction: Kaisa-Liisa Logren Scenography and dress design: Laura Poranen Light design: Heikki Paasonen Music design: Jukka Ruotsalainen Movement: Kaisa Niemi Dramaturgy: Kaisa-Liisa Logren, Miira

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 Logren Scenography and dress design: Aili Ojalo Light design: Juho Rahijärvi Script and direction: Miira Sippola

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

Poetry monologue

Lauri Otonkoski’s poems on stage in the performance where each character is in a turning point. Preformers: Eero Enqvist, Johanna Juhola, Laura Kairamo, Kaisa Niemi Script and Direction: Miira Sippola