Blind Spot
THE FINNISH NATIONAL THEATRE
The evocative Blind Spot points the finger at the unkept promises of administrators and their effects on children, teenagers and families.
This documentary-like piece sets out to answer the question of why all the political decisions that affect our daily lives are obscured or made to appear smaller than they really are to give the impression that there are no alternatives. The pandemic has revealed the abyss of global inequality and the growing distance between different social realities.
Will the escape from coronavirus be a repetition of the early ’90s recession? Could we even picture alternatives that wouldn’t be disastrous for the voiceless and the silent? What’s more important for a rich, big city than a safe school path for its children?
Based on Helsinki city council’s public records and recent interviews with administrators, Blind Spot is Susanna Kuparinen’s follow-up to her stage trilogies The Council and The Parliament.
”The director gives the play a tenderly personal twist by introducing a delicately poetic soul, her own child.”
Laura Hallamaa, Helsingin Sanomat newspaper
TTT EINO SALMELAINEN
Hämeenpuisto 28
42 / 38 € Teatterikesä | 45,50 / 41,50 € Lippupiste
- Fri 5.8. 19.00Buy ticket
- Sat 6.8. 15.00Buy ticket
Duration 2h 55min, intermission
Performed in Finnish
Photo: Mitro Härkönen
Actors and team
Written by
Susanna Kuparinen and Jari Hanska
Directed by
Susanna Kuparinen
Background research
Satu Linnapuomi
Music
Kerkko Koskinen
Set design and performance dramatized by
Akse Pettersson
Costume design by
Saara Ryymin
Light and video design by
Ville Virtanen
Live video design by
Ida Järvinen
Sound design by
Mika Venhovaara
Makeup design by
Minttu Minkkinen
Director’s assistant
Monia Penttinen
On stage
Noora Dadu, Kristiina Halttu, Joonas Heikkinen, Tero Koponen, Aksa Korttila, Pirjo Määttä, Matti Onnismaa and Antti Pääkkönen