Burial

Name: Burial
Start: 2025-01-24T18:30:00+02:00
End: 2025-01-30T17:30:00+02:00
Location: Haapaniemenkatu 6, 00530 Helsinki, Finland

Schedule

Fri, 24 Jan, 2025 at 06:30 pm to Thu, 30 Jan, 2025 at 05:30 pm

UTC+02:00

Location

Haapaniemenkatu 6, 00530 Helsinki, Finland | Helsinki, ES

Burial
Comedy without Intermission.
Actor and Actress are wandering on stage trying to find the purpose of their performance.
Premiere 24.1.2025 at 18:30
Other performances:
25.1. at 18:30
27.1. at 13:00
27.1. at 18:30
28.1. at 18:30
29.1. at 14:00
30.1. at 17:30
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)
Performers: Linus Mäkelä and Li Krook
Puppet designer: Elias Langi
Lighting designer: Joakim Udd
The performance is in English.
Estimated duration: 1h 40min.
Performance space: Studio 2