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Poetry & Jazz – FEAR

WHAT: Poetry & Jazz – FEAR
WHEN: Tuesdays 9 & 16 February, 6:45–8 pm
WHERE: Arkadia International Bookshop, Nervanderinkatu 11 (MAP)
 

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What are you scared of? Spiders? Public speaking? The current political climate? Balloons? We all have our own personal demons and peculiar fears.

Join us for another hour of poetry, monologues and music, as the P&J team explore all things fear-related with pieces on everything from plane crashes and wars to things that go bump in the night.

You can see the full programme here: www.zoechandler.com/2016/01/21/fear.

Music by Jukka Tykkyläinen (piano and vocals) and Leo Heng (vocals). Produced by Zoë Chandler.

Coffee and green tea will be available.

Free entrance, but a EUR 3 donation would be appreciated to support the venue.

Privacy

Privacy is a play written by Meritta Koivisto in 2002. It was performed for the first time as a stage reading on 7 March 2015 in front of an enthusiastic audience at the FINNBRIT premises on Fredrikinkatu in Helsinki. Some audience members commented after the performance that the Finn-Brit Players should consider performing the play as a full production.

The March 7 performance was truly an artistic success and all available seats were sold. Congratulations to the playwright and director, Meritta Koivisto, who was the guiding light behind the production and inspired the actors to reach new heights. Special thanks also go to Timo Karppinen who recorded the entire production on video, Tiina Isoviita who spent several late-night hours designing the programme, Vello Ruus for his invaluable advice and support on production issues, Kikka Myllys and Jessica Calonius who served as front-of-house hosts, Graham Lees who was responsible for lighting and sound operation, Eila Leonoff for her work on set design and props, and Pirjo Jyrälä who was responsible for sound effects and audio sequencing. All of us are grateful to the audience members who were so appreciative of our efforts.

Privacy by Meritta Koivisto

A famous author’s extreme protection of his private life turns against him in a horrifying way. When a hometown acquaintance from youth, Lorraine Gray, unexpectedly visits Paul J. Bauer and his wife Maude in their Hollywood Hills mansion, the consequences are unpredictable yet inevitable. Lorraine’s portrait shows the fragility of morality, the destruction caused by a manipulating mind, and the depth of darkness it can reach.

MERITTA KOIVISTO is an internationally award-winning writer and director. Her film Wrestling With A Bee won the Main Prize at the International Short Film Festival Winterthur in Switzerland, and her American play Privacy has been recognized at the New Century Writers Awards in the US. Koivisto has also lectured on creative writing at Columbia University in New York. Currently, she is writing her third novel and a collection of short stories. 

Some photos from the March 7 performance – click on the thumbnails for the full images and captions.

  • Lorraine & the Bauers
    David Rogers (Paul J. Bauer), Fredrika Fellman (Lorraine Gray) and Lynne Toubkin (Maude Bauer).
  • Barnaby & Maude
    John Leo (Barnaby Howell) with Lynne Toubkin (Maude Bauer).
  • Lorraine and a reporter
    Lauri Kivi-Koskinen (reporter) and Fredrika Fellman (Lorraine Gray).
  • A visitor
    Maria Kuuskoksi (visitor). Maria also played the role of Lily Bauer.
  • Mervin & Joshua
    Kent Tankersley (Melvin Watts) and Vello Ruus (Joshua I. Stiller).
  • Lorraine with a visitor and reporter
    Lauri Kivi-Koskinen (visitor), Ulf Persson (reporter), and Fredrika Fellman (Lorraine Gray).
  • Ned & Lorraine
    Jukka Tykkyläinen (Ned Lavoy) and Fredrika Fellman (Lorraine Gray).
  • Maude & Lorraine
    The leading ladies: Lynne Toubkin (Maude Bauer) and Fredrika Fellman (Lorraine Gray).
  • Cast, crew & audience
    Playwright and Director Meritta Koivisto with the cast, crew and some audience members following the performance.

Melancholy Play

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The Finn-Brit Players and Passport Theatre Company are very pleased to announce their decision to work together on a Helsinki production of the Melancholy Play by Sarah Ruhl. Auditions will be held in June 2016 and performances are currently scheduled for September.

The Melancholy Play by Sarah Ruhl is a strange play that sits somewhere between farce and comedy, between poetry and magical realism, between a barber’s shop drama and theatre of the absurd.

Tilly is melancholy. She is depressed and longing, alluring and unashamed. As a theatre critic wrote, “She makes her unhappiness into this sexy thing.” Tilly’s therapist, Lorenzo, wants her to take pills, but instead falls madly in love with her. In fact, it seems that every one Tilly meets falls madly in love with her melancholy. Frank, her tailor, hems her trousers, which leads to romance. Frances, her hairdresser, and Joan, Frances’ lesbian partner, also become infatuated. Everyone feasts off her melancholy and falls in love with her – until she becomes happy herself.

That happiness throws the world out of whack: everyone else is experiencing turmoil in their lives. Now it is they who are unhappy: Frances becomes so melancholy that she turns into an almond. The streets are full of them – of almonds that used to be people.  With Frances’ very existence in question, Tilly, Lorenzo, Joan and Frank must go and find Frank’s long-lost twin sister Frances. But how does one become so melancholy that they turn into an inanimate object? What will happen when Tilly and her friends travel to the almond state?

To find the answer, we hope you will join us in 2016 either as part of the cast and crew or as an audience member.

The Finn-Brit Players is a Helsinki-based amateur drama society whose origins date back to the early 1950s. Since becoming active again in 1981, the Players have staged over sixty productions including musicals, murder mysteries, classics, comedies, Shakespeare, children’s entertainment and drama.

The Passport Theatre company is a new equity-waiver theatre group, based in Easthampton, MA. Passport brings new plays to both Western Massachusetts and Finland, performing original works alternately in both countries. The company’s inaugural production was the Ryhmäteatteri version of Gogol’s The Overcoat, performed in Turners Falls in 2012.

Murder at the Circus

Murder Mystery – Murder at the Circus

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Saturday 12 December 2015 at 7–10 pm

Höyhentämö–Pluckhouse, Korkeavuorenkatu 17, Helsinki

Join us for all the fun of the circus: jugglers, clowns, magicians, freaks, fortune tellers, ferocious lions – and a juicy murder to solve.

The circus: it's all good fun until someone loses their life… and it’s your task to find out who dunnit. You'll try to identify the murderer by finding the hidden clues, and observing and interacting with the circus performers. There will be a prize for the cleverest detective.

NOTE: This is a participatory murder mystery evening, not a performance – think of Escape Rooms but with character interaction. From 1 December, we'll start sending out info packs about the setting and game mechanics – it's not obligatory, but we hope you'll come in character.

The ticket price includes one glass of wine and some nibbles. Other refreshments, such as cakes and beverages, will be available for purchase (cash only).

EARLY BIRD DISCOUNT: We have a quota of tickets for sale at EUR 10 (EUR 5 for Finn-Brit Players members). This offer will end either on 25 November or as soon as all discount tickets have been sold.

The regular ticket price is EUR 11 (EUR 6 for Finn-Brit Players members).

NOTE: Places are limited and tickets must be purchased in advance. Tickets will NOT be sold at the door.

SOLD OUT – please contact This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. if you would like to join the waiting list for potential cancellations.

MEMBERS: Please have your membership number to hand when ordering – contact This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. if you need a reminder.

Fat Pig

FAT PIG by Neil LaBute

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17, 18, 19, 22, 23, 25 and 26 April at 7 pm

19 April, there will also be an additional matinee performance at 2 pm

at Puoli-Q Stage of Q-teatteri, Tunturikatu 16, Töölö, Helsinki (MAP)

Tom is a nice guy. But he’s been dating the wrong girls. One day, at lunch, he randomly meets Helen, a librarian with a big heart and an even bigger… personality.

Does Tom have the balls to date someone who’s not exactly a Barbie doll? Does Tom have the balls to fall in love? And what do his work friends make of Helen? Carter is as shallow as they come, and Jeannie – well, let’s just say she might still think she and Tom are dating. Surely love will conquer all?

‘Fat Pig’ is a dark comedy about modern dating, relationships and our obsession with how we look and what others think of us. In the age of the selfie, do we know how to love anymore - especially ourselves?

Directed by Stina Halmetoja, produced by Stina Halmetoja and Zoë Chandler.

Featuring Austin Sears, Pauliina Munukka, James Duah and Mari Kortemaa.

Click on the below link to buy tickets.

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If still available, tickets can be purchased on the door at full price and with CASH ONLY.

Note that all discounts can only be used for online bookings.

An amateur English-language production by arrangement with Samuel French Ltd.

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