MARAṆASATI

Andre lived for three years leaning against mountains and monastery walls, searching for a more real reality.

Wally worked, tried to forget, prided himself.

In the waiting room of the emergency room at Meilahti, it's five in the morning and someone is putting up the fourth wall.

Outside, mid-spring sleeps and humanity shrinks under a lost society.

Andre and Wally bump into each other after years. Two opposing world views meet, with a shared desire to understand and be understood. Each with the feeling, under their sternum, that life has lost all sense.

When the gaze of an old friend reflects back all the fear he has numbed within himself, it is possible for once to let the walls crumble.


MARAṆASATI - The sun basking in the inevitability of impermanence is a representation of man's endless struggle with his mortality and all that we do to avoid facing it. Freely based on a 1981 American drama film directed by Louis Malle "My Dinner with Andre".

Playwrigth and Director: Onerva Järvenpää

Choreographer: Tinja Nerkko

Costume designer: Milla Nevalainen

Light designer: Laura Walden

Video: Onerva Järvenpää ja Laura Walden

Sound designer and original music by: Jekaterina Viltšenko

Dramaturgy assistant: Elisa Mattila