Your Mother, Clytemnestra
Minna Lund
Introduction
A mother’s perfect life. In a mother’s perfect kitchen.
Your Mother, Clytemnestra transforms Ryhmäteatteri’s stage into a well-equipped kitchen brimming with maternal power, where Mother’s fateful, transgenerational bravura—her symptomatic motherly love—simmers on the stove.
The performance by Minna Lund and her team peels back the layers of a mother like an onion. It is an intense and symbolic portrayal of a family in a petty-bourgeois neighborhood, held together by the mother and her love for her own fate.
Minna Lund’s latest play plays with psychoanalysis and is loosely inspired by the ancient Greek tragedy Electra, in which Clytemnestra’s daughter decides, together with her brother, to murder her mother. The central themes of the Electra myth are revenge, an obsessive relationship with the father, the complexity of mother-daughter relationships, unreasonable demands, and aggression toward one’s own mother.
The performance is subtitled in English and Finnish on Wednesdays and Fridays.
RECOMMENDED AGE 15+. duration 2H 5 min, INCLUDING INTERMISSION .
Subtitles
The performance is subtitled in English and Finnish on Wednesdays and Fridays. You can follow the subtitles with an application on your smartphone.
Prices
Early bird ticket 52e
Pensioner 42e
Youth under 30, student, unemployed, military or civil service personnel 24e
Early bird group ticket, min. 20 people 41e
Student group ticket 20e (teacher accompanying the group free of charge, only available at Ryhmäteatteri’s own ticket office)
Theatre professional ticket 20e (membership must be verified, only available at Ryhmäteatteri’s own ticket office)
“Maksa mitä maksat” ticket 52e/45e/40e/35e/30e/25e/20e/15e/10e/90e
At Ryhmäteatteri’s “Maksa mitä maksat” (Pay What You Will) performances on Friday, Oct. 9, and Friday, Oct. 23, you can choose the price of your ticket. Our goal is to make theatre accessible to everyone.
Credits
Direction and playwright Minna Lund
Dramaturgy Martta Jylhä
Set design Riku Suvitie
Costume design Ella Snellman
Lighting and video design Ville Mäkelä
Sound design Jussi Kärkkäinen
Makeup design Riikka Virtanen
Cast Santtu Karvonen, Sonja Kuittinen, Minna Suuronen and Robin Svartström
Musician Mila Laine
CONTENTS WARNING and allergens
Recommended for ages 15 and up. The performance contains fake blood, theatrical smoke, and flashing lights. Food is prepared during the performance.
Allergens: onion, carrot, celery, tomato, wheat, and soy.