Lou Salomé
KOM THEATRE
A praise to freedom, true friendship and all the brilliant female writers who’ve been erased from history, the carnivalesque Lou Salomé is an intoxicating piece about self-awareness and claiming one’s space, and about passion for both work and life.
Lou Andreas-Salomé (1861–1937) was a well-known figure in her time, a glass-ceiling-breaking poet, philosopher and psychoanalyst, lover to Nietzsche and Rainer Maria Rilke, and a colleague who dazzled Freud. Her view of sexuality as a source of happiness celebrated eroticism and defied convention.
Her male colleagues were obsessed with her, and all those men became part of the canon of Western philosophy, psychoanalysis and art.
Why was Salomé forgotten?
”Vilma Melasniemi is very natural as Lou Salomé – living and breathing a yearning for knowledge, a voice and a passion in a world dominated by men.”
Jussi Kareinen, kulttuuritoimitus.fi (text in Finnish)
TTT EINO SALMELAINEN
Hämeenpuisto 28
42 / 38 € Teatterikesä | 45,50 / 41,50 € Lippupiste
Duration 2h 40min, intermission
Performed in Finnish
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Photo: Noora Geagea
Actors and team
Written by
Aina Bergroth
Directed by
Riikka Oksanen
Set design by
Janne Vasama
Costume design by
Tiina Kaukanen
Light design by
Tomi Suovankoski
Sound design and music
Eva Louhivuori, Ilkka Tolonen
Make-up design by
Leila Mäkynen
Actors
Vilma Melasniemi, Ella Mettänen, Juho Milonoff, Niko Saarela, Miiko Toiviainen
Updated actors 2.8.: Due to laryngitis, in the roles of Miiko Toiviainen there will be Pyry Nikkilä as Paul Rée and as a choirboy. Antti Tiensuu will perform the roles of Rainer Maria Rilke and Richard von Krafft-Ebing. Miiko Toiviainen will be seen in the role of Count Joukowsky's friend.
Musician
Eva Louhivuori
The performance rights of this play are overseen by the Writers Guild of Finland.
