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
TTT EINO SALMELAINEN
Hämeenpuisto 28
42 / 38 € Teatterikesä | 45,50 / 41,50 € Lippupiste
- Tue 2.8. 19.00Buy ticket
- Wed 3.8. 12.00Buy ticket
Duration 2h 40min, intermission
Performed in Finnish
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 and Ilkka Tolonen
Makeup design by
Leila Mäkynen
Actors
Vilma Melasniemi, Ella Mettänen, Juho Milonoff, Niko Saarela, Miiko Toiviainen
Musician
Eva Louhivuori
