Past productions
Dracula
By Bryony Lavery
Collaboration with Thespians Anonymous
29 March – 1 April 2023
NoName Theatre
Do vampires exist? In the 21st century? What would Dracula do if he had access to modern technology? How are vampires defeated in the digital age? Garlic? An anti-virus software? In her adaptation of the classic novel 'Dracula', Bryony Lavery revisits the story of Count Dracula. Letters, diary entries, and newspaper clippings from the original novel are replaced by e-mails, text messages, and televised news. Join us, if you dare, and see if good prevails in the end.
Do vampires exist? In the 21st century? What would Dracula do if he had access to modern technology? How are vampires defeated in the digital age? Garlic? An anti-virus software? In her adaptation of the classic novel 'Dracula', Bryony Lavery revisits the story of Count Dracula. Letters, diary entries, and newspaper clippings from the original novel are replaced by e-mails, text messages, and televised news. Join us, if you dare, and see if good prevails in the end.
Directed by: Arnaud Praplan
Featuring: Aleksandr Belotcerkovskii, Giuliano Didio, Paul German, Lilith Heiland, Siiri Hornsby, Henri Kaarakainen, Veera Luhtala, Salomon Marttila, Pauliina Munukka, Jonathan O'Brien, Hanna Ouahmane, and Daniel Pietschke
29 March – 1 April 2023
NoName Theatre
Do vampires exist? In the 21st century? What would Dracula do if he had access to modern technology? How are vampires defeated in the digital age? Garlic? An anti-virus software? In her adaptation of the classic novel 'Dracula', Bryony Lavery revisits the story of Count Dracula. Letters, diary entries, and newspaper clippings from the original novel are replaced by e-mails, text messages, and televised news. Join us, if you dare, and see if good prevails in the end.
Do vampires exist? In the 21st century? What would Dracula do if he had access to modern technology? How are vampires defeated in the digital age? Garlic? An anti-virus software? In her adaptation of the classic novel 'Dracula', Bryony Lavery revisits the story of Count Dracula. Letters, diary entries, and newspaper clippings from the original novel are replaced by e-mails, text messages, and televised news. Join us, if you dare, and see if good prevails in the end.
Directed by: Arnaud Praplan
Featuring: Aleksandr Belotcerkovskii, Giuliano Didio, Paul German, Lilith Heiland, Siiri Hornsby, Henri Kaarakainen, Veera Luhtala, Salomon Marttila, Pauliina Munukka, Jonathan O'Brien, Hanna Ouahmane, and Daniel Pietschke
The Anastasia File
By Royce Ryton
5–9 October 2022
NoName Theatre
Berlin, 1920. A strange girl is in an asylum. Who is she really? Can she be the last surviving child of Tsar Nicholas II? Or is she someone else? Everyone wants to find out, but only she knows the truth. The play explores the traumas of war and dislocation. It asks us all to consider how do we know that something is really true. By exploring this dark past, we seek to better understand our own uneasy times.
Directed by: Anastasia Diatlova
Featuring: Zachariah Chamberlaine, Sophie Michaud, Pauliina Munukka, Arnaud Praplan
NoName Theatre
Berlin, 1920. A strange girl is in an asylum. Who is she really? Can she be the last surviving child of Tsar Nicholas II? Or is she someone else? Everyone wants to find out, but only she knows the truth. The play explores the traumas of war and dislocation. It asks us all to consider how do we know that something is really true. By exploring this dark past, we seek to better understand our own uneasy times.
Directed by: Anastasia Diatlova
Featuring: Zachariah Chamberlaine, Sophie Michaud, Pauliina Munukka, Arnaud Praplan
The Lady in the Van
By Alan Bennett
Collaboration with The Really Small Theatre Company (a stage reading)
21 - 22 September 2019
Finnbrit Language Centre
Alan Bennett first chronicled his encounter with Miss Shepherd in an article, published in diary form in 1989, after her death. A prolific and successful writer and raconteur, with his Yorkshire roots, liberal views and single status, Bennett was beguiled into allowing this eccentric, educated lady of indeterminate age and background to park and live in her beaten-up old van, temporarily, first outside his house in Camden, and then in his garden. He bade her farewell 15 years later at her funeral. It seems that she had the last laugh!
We hope you enjoy this stage reading of the play Alan Bennett went on to write. Its most recent reincarnation was in 2015, as a film starring, of course, the redoubtable Dame Maggie Smith.
Featuring: Mira Berglund-Fitzpatrick, Giuliano Didio, Austin Sears, Joan Nordlund, Demian Stimson, Hosanna Megumi
Directed by Joan Nordlund
21 - 22 September 2019
Finnbrit Language Centre
Alan Bennett first chronicled his encounter with Miss Shepherd in an article, published in diary form in 1989, after her death. A prolific and successful writer and raconteur, with his Yorkshire roots, liberal views and single status, Bennett was beguiled into allowing this eccentric, educated lady of indeterminate age and background to park and live in her beaten-up old van, temporarily, first outside his house in Camden, and then in his garden. He bade her farewell 15 years later at her funeral. It seems that she had the last laugh!
We hope you enjoy this stage reading of the play Alan Bennett went on to write. Its most recent reincarnation was in 2015, as a film starring, of course, the redoubtable Dame Maggie Smith.
Featuring: Mira Berglund-Fitzpatrick, Giuliano Didio, Austin Sears, Joan Nordlund, Demian Stimson, Hosanna Megumi
Directed by Joan Nordlund
Apologia
By Alexi Kaye Campbell
Collaboration with The Really Small Theatre Company
25 February - 3 March 2019
Höyhentämö Pluckhouse
Kristin Miller is an eminent and successful art historian. As a young mother, she followed her politics and vocation, storming Parisian barricades and moving to Florence. Her recent memoir secures her place in history but fails to mention her sons.
Her birthday should be a time of celebration but when her sons decide to deliver their own versions of the past, everyone must confront the cost of Kristin's commitment to her passions.
Featuring: Giuliano Didio, Christian Jull, Hosanna Megumi, Pauliina Munukka, Joan Nordlund, and Joe White.
Directed by Anastasia Diatlova.
25 February - 3 March 2019
Höyhentämö Pluckhouse
Kristin Miller is an eminent and successful art historian. As a young mother, she followed her politics and vocation, storming Parisian barricades and moving to Florence. Her recent memoir secures her place in history but fails to mention her sons.
Her birthday should be a time of celebration but when her sons decide to deliver their own versions of the past, everyone must confront the cost of Kristin's commitment to her passions.
Featuring: Giuliano Didio, Christian Jull, Hosanna Megumi, Pauliina Munukka, Joan Nordlund, and Joe White.
Directed by Anastasia Diatlova.
It's About Time - Four Short Comedy Plays
By David Ives and Christopher Durang
Collaboration with The Really Small Theatre Company
19-23 October 2018
Höyhentämö Pluckhouse
ARABIAN NIGHTS by David Ives
Boy meets girl while travelling. Girl and boy fall in love. Straightforward, right? But what if you don't speak the same language? Or worse yet, what if there's an unexpected barrier to your communication, like a pushy third wheel, right as you're hunting for a last-minute souvenir on your way to the airport? Ridiculousness ensues.
Featuring: Anastasia Diatlova, Salomon Marttila, and Christian Jull.
Directed by Austin Sears.
TIME FLIES by David Ives
Horace and May meet in a bar and return to May’s pad to become better acquainted. Progress is hindered by interruptions from May’s rough neighbours and the arrival of a stranger who makes them question their purpose in life and how much of it they actually have left.
Featuring: Hosanna Megumi, Austin Sears, and Christian Jull.
Directed by Christian Jull.
MYSTERY AT TWICKNAM VICARAGE by David Ives
Three shots ring, and one body is found on a (very nice) carpet. Scotland Yard detective Harry Dexter is sent to solve who murdered Jeremy Thumpington-Fffienes. Was it Jeremy's wife, Mona Thumpington-Fffienes? Or their host, the Reverend Roger Penworthy-Pilks? Or perhaps Roger's wife, Sarah Penworthy-Pilks? Or maybe it was the sofa...
Featuring: Saga Arola, Riikka Faucher, Todd Elliott, Salomon Marttila, and Giuliano Didio.
Directed by Pauliina Munukka.
WANDA'S VISIT by Christopher Durang
Into the life of a very ordinary married couple, Jim and Marsha, enters Jim's very extraordinary ex-girlfriend, Wanda. Over the course of two days, the couple will learn a lot about themselves, each other, and especially about Wanda.
Featuring: Hosanna Megumi, Pauliina Munukka, Antti Vainio, and Austin Sears.
Directed by Anastasia Diatlova.
19-23 October 2018
Höyhentämö Pluckhouse
ARABIAN NIGHTS by David Ives
Boy meets girl while travelling. Girl and boy fall in love. Straightforward, right? But what if you don't speak the same language? Or worse yet, what if there's an unexpected barrier to your communication, like a pushy third wheel, right as you're hunting for a last-minute souvenir on your way to the airport? Ridiculousness ensues.
Featuring: Anastasia Diatlova, Salomon Marttila, and Christian Jull.
Directed by Austin Sears.
TIME FLIES by David Ives
Horace and May meet in a bar and return to May’s pad to become better acquainted. Progress is hindered by interruptions from May’s rough neighbours and the arrival of a stranger who makes them question their purpose in life and how much of it they actually have left.
Featuring: Hosanna Megumi, Austin Sears, and Christian Jull.
Directed by Christian Jull.
MYSTERY AT TWICKNAM VICARAGE by David Ives
Three shots ring, and one body is found on a (very nice) carpet. Scotland Yard detective Harry Dexter is sent to solve who murdered Jeremy Thumpington-Fffienes. Was it Jeremy's wife, Mona Thumpington-Fffienes? Or their host, the Reverend Roger Penworthy-Pilks? Or perhaps Roger's wife, Sarah Penworthy-Pilks? Or maybe it was the sofa...
Featuring: Saga Arola, Riikka Faucher, Todd Elliott, Salomon Marttila, and Giuliano Didio.
Directed by Pauliina Munukka.
WANDA'S VISIT by Christopher Durang
Into the life of a very ordinary married couple, Jim and Marsha, enters Jim's very extraordinary ex-girlfriend, Wanda. Over the course of two days, the couple will learn a lot about themselves, each other, and especially about Wanda.
Featuring: Hosanna Megumi, Pauliina Munukka, Antti Vainio, and Austin Sears.
Directed by Anastasia Diatlova.
The Baltimore Waltz
By Paula Vogel
9 - 12 May, 2018
at Höyhentämö, Helsinki When Anna, a schoolteacher from Baltimore, finds out that she is dying, she and her brother Carl decide to go on a trip through Europe. One of them is after a cure. One of them is trying to manage with the help of the indulgences of life. Paula Vogel's surreal dramatic comedy explores the ups and downs of sibling love and how to cope with the unthinkable. Directed by Pauliina Munukka Featuring Anastasia Diatlova, Arnaud Praplan and Austin Sears |
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Agnes of God
By John Pielmeier
Sat 28 November 2015
Wed 2 December 2015 Fri 4 December 2015 Sat 5 December 2015 at Höyhentämö, Helsinki The nature of faith is not that which you unequivocally know to be true, but that which you constantly doubt. This relationship between faith and doubt is explored in John Pielmeier’s 'Agnes of God'. After a dead newborn is discovered at a convent, Dr. Martha Livingstone, a court psychiatrist, is brought in to investigate the case. This is very much a play of the mind, where truth and illusion, psychosis and reason intertwine. Directed by Anastasia Diatlova Featuring Erna Bodström, Lotta Heikkinen & Pauliina Munukka |
Two Short Plays about Life and Death:
"Nine" and "Commencing"
By Jane Shepard
Wed 4 - Sat 7 Feb 2015
at Valtimonteatteri, Helsinki The two plays explore the parametres of life as well as the inevitability of death. In "Nine", two women find themselves held in captivity. Having little consolation, words and banter become their key strategy for survival. In "Commencing", Kelli is getting ready for her blind date, when Arlin knocks on the door. Neither of them is quite what the other expected. Cast and crew: Erna Bodström, Anastasia Diatlova, Lotta Heikkinen, Pauliina Munukka Make-up: Ewa Bednarczyk Photos: Antti Vainio |