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"I loveGreek tragedy.
I love how they plunge us straight into the quivering state of afters.
After the tragedy comes more tragedy.
And then more. And more."
Performer Annika Tudeer, Oblivia’s artistic director, celebrates her 60th birthday with her most personal work yet: Within a minimalist stage space, between tables and stacks of paper full of real and dreamt-of (hi)stories, she describes the uniqueness and vulnerability of her biography as an unwanted child, left behind, then adopted. Contrasted with singing as well as fragmentary dance and movement, Annika reads and narrates about her yearning to belong to the new as well as the old family, equal parts touching as well as unsparing, telling about men and women, her own and strange bodies, about motherhood and emancipatory processes, about childhood, youth and ageing, and not least about the wish to be loved unconditionally and to be able to love unconditionally herself.
With a forceful poetic impact, she takes the audience along on her life’s course of time for an hour – somewhere between the beginning of the world, Greek mythology and today – while choosing the audience as an intimate foil and witness to, in equal parts, almost painful “What If?” scenarios and conciliatory perspectives. Over the evening’s duration, Annika’s story progressively transforms into a universal consideration of our lifelong quest for connection and meaning.
DURATION
1 hour
LANGUAGE
English
TICKETS
5–30 € (your choice)
PROGRAM LEAFLET & TEXT
https://oblivia.fi/turn-turtle-turn-the-lecture-performance/
Text, on stage: Annika Tudeer
Dramaturgy, direction: Timo Fredriksson, Tua Helve, Annika Tudeer
Costume design: Tua Helve
Lighting design: Meri Ekola & Stine Hertel
Sound design: Yiran Zhao
Producer: Jenny Nordlund & Inari Pesonen
Communications: Essi Brunberg & Röd
Graphic design: Jenni Salminen / Röd
Photography: Saara Autere
Video & trailer: Jonatan Sundström
Production: Oblivia, Mad House Helsinki
Supported by: Arts Promotion Centre Finland, Svenska kulturfonden, City of Helsinki, Konstsamfundet, Stiftelsen Tre Smeder
Thanks to Juha Valkeapää, Anna-Maija Terävä & the whole Turn Turtle Turn team.
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Event Venue & Nearby Stays
Mad House Helsinki, Lintulahdenkatu 3, Helsinki,Helsinki, Finland
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