Photo: Timo Poppius

Kalevala dell'Arte 

OCTOBER 2008 at STOA

A Shamanistic Carneval à la Commedia Dell’arte! The characters and stories from Kalevala, Finnish national epos, are represented in accordance to traditional Italian commedia dell’arte style. The basic elements are mask theatre, acrobatics and singing.
Language: Finnish and English
Duration: 1h 20min
Kalevala dell'Arte is suitable for the whole family.
WELCOME!

Date and time:
11/14/15/22.10 at 19:00    and      13/21.10 at 13:00
                                                                                                  

Place: STOA, Turunlinnantie 1, Itäkeskus, 00900 Helsinki http://www.stoa.fi/    

Tickets 10/15€ (school groups 5€)

• Stoa ticket office

Open Mon 9am­-4pm, Tue-Fri 1pm-2.30pm and 3pm-7pm, as well as weekends one hour before performance begins.

Reservations can be made from the Cultural Office switchboard on weekdays noon-6pm: tel. +358 (0)9 310 12000 (local call charge).Tickets can be bought from Lippupalvelu or from ticketsale of STOA(open: 
mon 9-16, tue-fri 13-14.30 and 15-19, du

• Lippupalvelu ticket outlets or online

Reservations from Lippupalvelu call centre daily 8am-8pm: 
tel. +358 (0)600 10 800 (€1.83/min + local call charge) or +358 (0)600 10 020 (€5.99/call + local call charge).

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 finds themselves from the 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-masksTeatteri 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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