Dates:
- Thu, 17 Sept 2026, 18:00
Tuula and Pirkko are a pair of red-blooded ladies from Ala-Vittula, with a combined age of around 170 years.
They do not really like each other, but for some unknown reason they have spent their entire lives very closely together. Unlike what you might think about most elderly people, age has done nothing to calm them down. Quite the opposite in fact. Tuula loves Cindy Crawford and social distancing, while Pirkko does not think much of her grandchildren’s pottery or drawings, nor is she still any good at baking. Tuula and Pirkko were left to their own devices during the COVID-19 lockdown quite some time ago because of their difficult personalities, and so they have all the time in the world to live their lives exactly as they please.
After a series of twists and turns, Tuula and Pirkko decide to dust off their suitcases, haul their ageing behinds to the Finavia ticket counter, pay their airport tax – perhaps for the very last time – and set off for the sunny coast of Fuengirola. Before long, they have perhaps the most important conversations of their lives in the shade of the Toro. On this journey, both the entrenched attitudes of Tuula and Pirko’s daughters towards their mothers and the patriarchal macho culture are given a good shaking up. Will the ladies find romance, a luxury yacht or Sean Connery’s chest hair on the shores of Fuengirola?
The performance is a tribute to whimsy, the joy of life, free will, a stream of consciousness, self-determination, silly things, dreams, humanity, the species-specific human n...
Cost: 24,80 € / 20 €
Bookings: Booking information is available from the event source.
Categories: Teatteri, Teatteri ja sirkus, Kanneltalo, Suomi, Ruotsi, Englanti, Kaupunkiuudistusalueet, theatre (art forms), noh theatre
Source: Event information supplied by City of Helsinki Linked Events.
