Program & Tickets

Love for a celebrated poet turns a young journalist’s life upside down. One evening on her way home, Tuula-Liina encounters Pentti Saarikoski, a renowned artist who is also in desperate need of a bath. THE POET OF FINLAND is a performance about passionate love and the marriage of Pentti Saarikoski and Tuula-Liina Varis.  

Aina Bergroth’s new play is a painfully funny and shocking journey back in time to the turn of the 1960s and 1970s in Finland. The play, which focuses on the dynamics of a romantic relationship, draws on contemporary descriptions and is loosely based on Tuula-Liina Varis’s novel Kilpikonna ja olkimarsalkka (1994).

Helsinki in the early 20th century. The city is growing, changing shape, and tensions between social classes are escalating. In the restless working-class neighborhoods, people gather to demand justice, while on the other side of the Pitkäsilta bridge, they raise their glasses to the promises of a new era. Soon, society is torn in two, and the streets of the newborn nation’s capital become the stage for a far-reaching tragedy.

Riikka Oksanen’s new adaptation for Ryhmäteatteri of the seminal novel published 20 years ago is an invitation to an eternal summer party that continues even after the music has ceased.