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The Finnish Horse

Author:
Sirkku Peltola
Director:
Roman Baskin
Premiere:
Esietendus 7. oktoobril 2007 suures saalis.
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Author: Sirkku Peltola
Artist: Ervin Õunapuu (guest)
Costumes: Tuuliki Tolli (guest)
Translators: Ülev Aaloe, Viive Taro

Cast: Ita Ever, Maria Klenskaja, Tõnu Kark, Margus Prangel, Viire Valdma et al.

The Finnish Horse is a sharp, merry and also sad story about a Finnish country place and its inhabitants' encounter with the organization of life in the EU. The village men suddenly have a business idea: they have heard that in Sicily horse meat is a delicacy; so they decide to sell their old horses to Sicily as they are useless anyway. ... The public is made to laugh to tears — but at the same time a tragic note is constantly present. A Finnish village like an Estonian village is changing: in a funny, hurtful, complicated, and irreversible way.

Sirkku Peltola (1960) is a noteworthy drama writer of present-day Finnish literature. His characters may be funny and strange, maybe even resemble a caricature but they are also recognizably true to life. Peltola's text is at the same time funny and tragic, warm and insulting, and his language contemporary.