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On stage – Seppo Pääkkönen and Olavi Uusivirta
Screenplay – John Logan
Directing – Juhana von Bagh
Translation – Aleksi Milonoff
Set design – Katri Rentto
Lighting design and PANI projections – Ina Niemelä
Sound design – Iiro Iljama
Stage managing – Patrick Torné
Premiere in the Finnish National Theatre, Omapohja 4.3.2015
Duration 2h
Performance language Finnish
Photos – Lauri Rotko
The performance combines music, dance and physical theatre in the form of traditional, composed and improvised sound and movement. The base for the performance is the tradition of lamentation in Karelia and Middle East.
Emmi Kuittinen – vocals, stories, accordion
Marouf Majidi – vocals, stories, tanbour, tar
Amanda Kauranne – vocals, percussion
Esko Grundström – double bass, fiddle, kantele, sound design
Suvi Tuominen – dance, choreography
Johannes Purovaara – dance, choreography
Ina Niemelä – lighting design
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Photos – Pietari Purovaara
On stage – Kaisa Leppänen, Jarkko Niemi, Annika Poijärvi, Tatu Mönttinen, Sara Melleri ja Saara Kotkaniemi.
Director – Sini Pesonen
Writer – Jussi Moila
Music and sound design – Pauli Riikonen and Juho Alajuuma
Choreography – Sonya Lindfors
Lighting and video design – Ina Niemelä
Costume design – Henna-Riikka Taskinen
Set design – Salli Kari and artist Jani Leinonen.
Madonna is a carnivalesque performance about feminism, femininity, motherhood and roles in a nuclear family and in a society.
Premiere 28.10.2015
Lasipalatsi POP-UP –THEATRE Helsinki, Mannerheimintie 22-24
Performance language Finnish
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