| Original name |
Eino Leino |
| Kirjoittajat |
Inkeri Kilpinen |
| Original language |
Finnish |
| Premiere year |
1976 |
| Theater |
Mikkelin Teatteri / Mikkeli Theatre |
| Keywords |
Drama |
Synopsis
The play is about the life of Finland's greatest poet, Eino Leino (1878-1926). It concentrates on the last ten years of Leino's life, a time when the poet's years of success were already behind him. Leino is portrayed as a decrepit, former genius, whose deterioration is attributed mainly to Finland's calamitous civil war of 1918. The war smashed Leino's dreams of a unified, independent nation. He sympathised with both sides in the war, the Whites as well as the Reds, and ended up as a target for criticism from both sides of the firing lines.
Translations
| Language |
English |
| Translation name |
Eino Leino, the Poet |
| Translators |
Silja Ikäheimonen-Lindgren |
| Copies available |
Finnish Theatre Information Centre, tinfo(at)teatteri.fi |
| Drama agency |
The Finnish Dramatists' Union, http://www.sunklo.fi |