Performances
PIRANDELLO PROJECT - On the Edge of SilenceTeatteri Metamorfoosi succeeds to convey with its suggestive sound world and multi-layered storytelling a meaningful and visually creative show in which also the silence becomes audible. - Elisabeth Nordgren/ Hufvudstadbladet Pirandello Project - On the Edge of Silence is a silent mask and puppet theatre performance that takes place in a society that has declared creative activity to be inefficient, dangerous... and illegal. Teatteri Metamorfoosi presents a visually poetic piece, where the pure magic in the act of imagination turns into a rebellious act, capable of re-appropriating another person's life. For imagination is not an escape from reality, but the tool by which we shape it. The performance is inspired by the last, unfinished play by Luigi Pirandello I Giganti della Montagna (The Mountain Giants). Teatteri Metamorfoosi's new performance had the opening night on 23.8.2009 in Korjaamo Cultural Factory in the Stage Helsinki Theatre Festival and during the Helsinki Festival.
Mask acting tutor Soile Mäkelä Dramaturgs Giovanzana, Mäkelä and Katerina Fojtikova Actors Tanja Eloranta, Roosa Hannikainen, Miska Kajanus, Johanna Kultala, Linda Lemmetty, Elina Putkinen Composer Maija Ruuskanen Musicians Toni Lehtola, Maija Ruuskanen and performers Choreographer Tanja Eloranta Maskmakers Davide Giovanzana, Johanna Kultala, Toni Lehtola, Laura Mäkelä, Soile Mäkelä, Elina Putkinen Puppet builders Johanna Kultala and Elina Putkinen Costume designer Henni Siltaniemi Light designer Antti Helminen Work shops: |
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Kalevala dell'Arte
A Shamanistic Carnival à la Commedia dell’Arte! The characters and stories from Kalevala, Finnish national epic, are represented in accordance with the traditional Italian commedia dell’arte style. The elements of the performance are mask theatre, acrobatics and singing.
Language: Finnish and English
Duration: 1h 20min
Kalevala dell'Arte is suitable for the whole family.
Directors: Davide Giovanzana and Soile Mäkelä
Actors: Davide Giovanzana, Tanja Eloranta, Johanna MacDonald, Soile Mäkelä,Maija Ruuskanen, Sakari Saikkonen and Miska Kajanus
Music: Maija Ruuskanen and work group
Costumes: Henni Siltaniemi
Lights: Mirva Jantunen
Masks: Under the instruction of Stefano Perocco di Meduna the work group and Toni Lehtola, Laura Mäkelä and Elina Putkinen
Dramatutgical tutor: Carlo Boso (Italy)
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 Photo: Studio Liisa Karling |
Lost Persons Area
A tragi-comic performance deals with aging and the presence of death. Three old seniors find themselves in a hospice where the only place to escape from reality is the sea of memories. The performance is executed with expressive masks made by Antero Poppius.The performance is silent.
Director Davide Giovanzana and Soile Mäkelä
Actors Davide Giovanzana, Tanja Eloranta, Johanna MacDonald and Soile Mäkelä
Lights Johanna-Maj Vihalem
Sounds Marko Pakarinen
Costumes and Staging Work group
Expressive masks Antero Poppius
Larvaire-masks Teatteri Metamorfoosi
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"Old people are almost as easy and immoral to tackle in art as babies: they
touch by their sheer helplessness. But the makers of the Lost Persons’ Area
avoid the easy ways: they find the sad in the funny and the funny in the
sad, and they never exploit the obvious – so they are touching in a very
real way – by not pushing the right buttons, but by showing how complex and
irreversible life is."
Mikhail Brashinsky, filmmaker, Russia
"Masks in this show are not impressive “special effects”, or colourful
gimmicks – they are the language with which these artists speak to us; that
is why while showing just one fixed facial expression (which is what masks
always do) these masks (but really the people behind them) are able to
deliver a whole wide range of human emotions – what we really come to the
theatre for."
Dr. Anna Ivanova-Brashinskaya, PhD
Department of Puppet Theatre, Chairwoman
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