Ready-to-go productions from Finland
This resource provides information on export ready Finnish productions that are tourable and suited for the international market right now. It offers a brief introduction to each of the featured shows, along with promotional photographs and video clips, technical information and contact details for further enquiries.
Turn Turtle Turn – the lecture performance
| Theatre: |
OBLIVIA |
| Premiere: |
Nov 1, 2024 |
| Produced / co-produced by: |
Oblivia and Mad House Helsinki - supported by Arts Promotion Centre Finland, Svenska kulturfonden, City of Helsinki, Konstsamfundet, Stiftelsen Tre Smeder |
With a forceful poetic impact, she takes the audience along on her life’s course of time for an hour – somewhere between the beginning of the world, Greek mythology and today – while choosing the audience as an intimate foil and witness to, in equal parts, almost painful “What If?” scenarios and conciliatory perspectives. Over the evening’s duration, Annika’s story progressively transforms into a universal consideration of our lifelong quest for connection and meaning.
Turn Turtle Turn – the lecture performance was created as part of Oblivia’s series on the Anthropocene that began with the musical theatre production Turn Turtle Turn for the Munich Biennale in June 2024.
“Time is such a strange construct. Billions of years since life began on earth, thousands since there have been humans, constant life, constant decay, and earth is not impressed at all and keeps turning, it always is just our own life, that speck of sand within eternity’s sandstorm, that lies in the center of how we perceive time.”
– Annika
Touring information
| Running time at full length |
60 min. |
| Interval |
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| Stage required (height/width/depth) |
5m x 10m x 6m |
| Scale of show / Special requirements |
also a reading version available, which can be adapted to various locations. |
| No. of people on tour |
2 |
| No. of performers |
1 |
| Used language |
English |
| Requires a clear understanding of Finnish or another language |
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| Subtitles |
the text is in the program leaflet |
| English synopsis |
the text is in the program leaflet |
| Availability for workshop and educational work |
Yes. |
Key personnel
| Directed by |
Timo Fredriksson, Tua Helve, Annika Tudeer |
| Written by |
Annika Tudeer |
| Performers |
Annika Tudeer |
| Lighting design |
Meri Ekola & Stine Hertel |
| Sound design |
Yiran Zhao |
| Stage design |
Meri Ekola |
| Costume design |
Tua Helve |
| Video design |
Jonatan Sundström |
| Other credits |
Communications: Essi Brunberg & Röd Graphic design: Jenni Salminen / Röd Photography: Saara Autere Producer: Jenny Nordlund & Inari Pesonen |
Contact information
| Contact |
Jenny Nordlund |
| Position |
producer |
| Telephone |
+358 45 131 8313 |
| Email |
jenny@oblivia.fi |
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