“It’s not easy to be a Finn. The one without a decent history or self-esteem, who looks like a potato. I would change all my great inherited nature-relationships for even a little bit of Mediterranean cultural heritage and social skills. And I would sacrifice all that is or has ever been mine, if somebody like that, not like me, loved me back.”
The surrealistic one-woman puppetry show weaves together the stories from Minoan culture to Finnish quasi folklore. As a result we end up in the labyrinth of roots and loves and overwhelming silences. This show also contains its creator Merja Pöyhönens’ most embarrasing holiday memories and the results of both freshly studied ventriloquism and 20 years of training in puppet manipulation.
This heartful show is about the thirtieth attempt of the trailblazer new-wave puppetry collective Kuuma Ankanpoikanen (Dirty Duckling) to make a perfect show in the magnificent field of puppetry art.
