ITSEEN KIRJOITETTU
Premiere 20.2.2026
Tampereen Työväen Teatteri -
Eino Salmelainen Stage
Show season:
20.2.-21.3.2026
DESCRIPTION
Where are you from, and what does it affect?
Do you know where you come from – and what has been written in you without you knowing? What kind of perception of yourself and your possibilities did you grow up with? Itseen kirjoitettu tells the story of what happens when a working-class son makes a class leap. After his father dies, professor Didier Eribon returns home. After 30 years of absence, he must face his mother and the shame that led him to leave his home town for Paris. The performance challenges the viewer to reflect on his own position as a part of society. Itseen kirjoitettu is based on Didier Eribon's work Return to Reims, about which the writer Édouard Louis wrote: It is one of those artworks that can change a life. It changed my life. It can happen to you too.
On stage Sinikka Sokka, Miiko Toiviainen, Timo Torikka, Maija Ruuskanen
LANGUAGE
Finnish
CREDITS
On stage: Sinikka Sokka, Miiko Toiviainen, Timo Torikka, Maija Ruuskanen
Based on Didier Eribon's Return to Reims
Finnish translation: Timo Torikka
Dramaturgy: Timo Torikka ja Davide Giovanzana
Director: Davide Giovanzana
Music: Maija Ruuskanen
Video design: Ilari Kallinen
Light design: Ville Virtanen
Set and costume design: Tinde Lappalainen
Set: Damjan Krebl
Production manager: Luc Gérardin
Production: Teatteri Metamorfoosi with Tampereen Työväen Teatteri
Play rights: Nordic Drama Corner
Based on “Retour à Reims” by Didier Eribon © Librairie Arthème Fayard, 2009