The ramifying story proceeds with multiple twists and turns, the short scenes are filled with a motley array of characters, speeches, extracts of librettos and thematic allusions, an ending takes its time.īut for me it worked: the performance seemed to run effortlessly. It contains plenty of meta-theatrical dialogue–actors addressing the audience, describing what’s happening on the stage, calling each other by their real names–which may make one vacillate between irritation and amusement. Even I was when I did–fortunately I had seen the performance before reading the script. Reading the script, I dare assume, many might become confused. Which is in Finlandistan, as the populist politician Monsieur “Sharp Pen,” puts it. Transylvania, Camargue, Paris, Hungarian plains, the air above Europe: this voluminous cross-bred creation scatters its scenes all over Europe, taking place also, both theatrically and meta-theatrically, in the National Theatre, Helsinki. Premiered on the main stage of the Finnish National Theatre in Helsinki, September 12, 2018.Ĭircus, cabaret, a score in the spirit of Brecht & Weill, populism, refugees, a sad love story, homeless Roma, talking animals, religious beliefs, porcine and human hubris, barbed wire, extracts of opera, valkyries and hussars hankering after a lost glorious past, the magic mirror of Vlad the Impaler (aka Dracula)–these are some of the components that make up Musta Saara, a serious satire about Europe today.Īround the campfire the Roma are entertained by their Dancing Bear (Erkki Saarela). Orchestra: Jussi Tuurna, Ville Leppilahti, Topi Korhonen, Esko Grundström, Sara Puljula, Tommi Asplund. Actors: Juha Muje, Katariina Kaitue, Janne Marja-aho, Sinikka Sokka, Ulla Tapaninen, Tiina Weckström, Jani Karvinen, Erkki Saarela, Timo Tuominen, Kristiina Halttu, Mikko Kauppila, Ville Mäkinen, Harri Nousiainen, Annika Poijärvi, Linda Hämäläinen, Panu Kangas, Petri Knuuttila, Taru Still, Erik Rehnstrand / Petri Pulkkinen, Risto Apunen, Sami Saari. Sound designer: Jussi Matikainen, Ville Leppilahti. Composer: Jussi Tuurna.ĭirector: Laura Jäntti.
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