PUBLIC READINGS

Sun 23.11. at 11.00-14.30
Mon 24.11. at 9.30-13.00
Fri 28.11. at 9.30-13.00

Puoli-Q
Tunturikatu 16

TICKETS: Free entry

The latest addition to Baltic Circle Festival are Public Readings. The idea for organising them arose from the fact that new foreign dramas premiered annually in Finnish theatres are mostly of Western European origin. New plays from e.g. Russia, Baltic countries and Poland are completely missing from Finnish theatres’ repertoires. One could also reverse the situation: does new Finnish drama have life outside Finland?

Public Reading sessions will be held three times during the festival. New texts come from Finland, Russia, Latvia and Lithuania. Excerpts from the plays will be read by Finnish actors, and they are directed by select students from Theatre Academy in Helsinki. Some of the authors and translators will also be present at the readings.

There is an open forum discussion included in each of the readings. Discussions will be led by artistic director Erik Söderblom.

Public Readings at Q-teatteri, Puoli-Q stage, Tunturikatu 16.

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Sun 23.11. at 11:00-14:30

- Juha Jokela: Mobile Horror
- Tuomas Timonen: Elämänmäki
- Minna Harjuniemi: Kymen taju

Finnish, read in English
Director: Jukka Heinänen

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Mon 24.11. at 9:30-13:00

- Inga Abele: Tummat peurat
- Inga Abele: Rautaruoho
- Marius Ivaskevicius: Naapuri

Latvian, Lithuanian; read in Finnish
Director: Janne Suutarinen

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Fri 28.11. at 9:30-13:00

- Klim: Minä… Hän
- Vladimir Sorokin: Dostojevskin trippi
- Oleg ja Vladimir Presnjakov: Terrorismi

Russian, read in Finnish
Director: Milja Sarkola

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