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Burial

Comedy without Intermission. Written by Péter Nádas, translated by Imre Goldstein

Elias Langi

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For Nádas, theatre, the domain of actors, is not a branch of literature, at least not in the sense that a novel, which has characters, is literature. The novel describes, but theatre performs intensity, carnality. “What interests me in the theatre is not the story,” Nádas has declared. “Nor is it so-called ideas. That is a matter for literature and philosophy. In theatre it is the system of relations emerging between live bodies that is my interest.”

This is an opera of words, a ballet of movements. The only criterion is intensity. Again and again, the characters work themselves toward the ecstatic, the incorporating. They speak, they spar, they dance, they chant their engorging, their entering of each other, their exchanges of identity, their pauses, their frustrations. A whole lifetime, a whole relationship is enacted, parodied. Breathing, clutching, avoiding, declaiming, the two characters attempt to exhaust every permutation of their merging and their estrangement. (Susan Sontag in Nádas’s Comedy of Interment)

Working group

  • Directing: Bálint Barcsai (Artistic Thesis, TeM, Degree Programme in Directing)
  • Performers: Linus Mäkelä and Li Krook (Degree Programme in Acting, in Swedish)
  • Puppet design: Elias Langi (Academy of Fine Arts, Master´s Degree programme in Sculpture)
  • Lighting design: Joakim Udd (Master’s Studies in Lighting Design)

Services for Artistic Activities

  • Stage manager: Eemeli Melvasalo
  • Lighting technician: Mikko Kaukonen
  • Props and puppet: Tarja Hägg
  • Costume: Sirpa Luoma
  • Production coordinator: Rosa Sedita
  • Photo: Roosa Oksaharju
  • Programme: Jaana Forsström
  • Producer: Maria Kaihovirta

Thank you

  • Zsófi Bódi
  • Stina Engström
  • Aune Kallinen
  • Saana Lavaste
  • Giorgia Lolli
  • Aleksis Meaney
  • Katalin Trencsényi
  • Eki Vuori

Performances

Premiere Fri 24.1.2025 at 18:30
Other performances: Sat 25.1 at 18:30, Mon 27.1 at 13:00 and at 18:30, Tue 28.1 at 18:30, Wed 29.1 at 14:00, Thu 30.1 at 17:30

Scene

Theatre Academy Helsinki, Studio 2, Haapaniemenkatu 6

Language

The performance is in English.

Content notices

Haze is used during the performance.
Performance starts sharply and latecomers won’t be let in the performance space.

Duration

Estimated duration: 1 h 40 min