BLIND SPOT Will Be Performed at Vallila National Theater Beginning This Week

Spring 2020. Sweden - an incredibly modern and sterile, beautiful and admired, exciting and liberal folk home - lets the elderly die. Why is this happening? And why in Sweden, where everything is always discussed thoroughly and publicly, is everything being discussed now except this tragedy?

Autumn 2020. The mystery play "Who took the children's money" will be performed in Helsinki? Amid the coronary pandemic and the growing nausea of a??a??children and young people, Helsinki is deciding to cut schools and kindergartens, even though the city's budget is well in surplus. Why? And why right now?

Meanwhile in Kumpula: Susanna Kuparinen and her daughter live the Korona everyday life, peel potatoes for fish soup and wonder how world politics is going. What does the future look like in the midst of all this?

Blind dot directed by Susanna Kuparinenis a documentary theatrical performance. The current work illuminates the blind spots in politics, media, and social reality that remain hidden in the midst of a crisis. Kuparinen's debut work as a residency artist at the National Theater asks why political decisions are disguised and an attempt is made to create the impression that they are non-alternative and detached from citizens' daily lives. In the relentless spotlight of the coronary pandemic, both the crumbling structures and the increasingly distant social realities are clearly visible. The show reaches for the future: is Finland's way out of the corona a replica of the severe cuts of the 1990s recession, or are we even prepared to imagine alternatives? who do not strike so hard on the quiet of the country? What is more important for a rich Helsinki than a safe school path for children? Where are we in five years?

In the footsteps of the Council and Parliament trilogues, which have attracted great attention, the extensive documentary material of the continuing performance includes e.g. Public documents of Helsinki City Council and interviews with decision-makers. The material has been compiled and written for presentation by Susanna Kuparinen and her long-term partner Jari Hanska and director Satu Linnapuomi . The show's stunning personal gallery, featuring familiar public names, features a stunning set of performers. The music for the stage work has been composed by Kerkko Koskinen .