Translation performance Tampere trailer
Channel: Olga Jitlina
Date: 07/08/2018

Translation


by Olga Jitlina in collaboration with opera singer Yulia Averina, piano player Ekaterina Kaucsh, the collective of refugee activists “Lampedusa in Hamburg” and asylum seekers residing in Tampere


TTT Kellariteatteri
3 May 2018

The performance is based on the novel “Soul”, by Russian writer Andrey Platonov (1899–1951). The play also uses text fragments by poets Osip Mandelstam (1891–1938) and Joseph Brodsky (1940–1996).

The premiere of the performance took place in December 2015 at Kampnagel Theatre in Hamburg as part of the Nordwind festival. It has also been shown in Dresden (2016) and at the Venice Biennale (2017). 

The Tampere adaptation of the performance is a part of the activities of the Spaces of Justice Across the East-West Divide research project, based at the University of Tampere and funded by the Kone Foundation. It has been produced in collaboration with the Tampere Reception Centre and its residents. 


Cast
Dzhan: Ali Ahmed, Anas Bardan, Sandra Gladys, Patrick Owusu
Translator:  Yulia Averina
Piano player: Yekaterina Kausch
Drawings: Olga Jitlina
Photo: Alex David
Subtitles and Finnish translation: Jekaterina Yevstifeyeva
Theatre training: Alexander Savchuk
Production: Iulia Gataulina, Faculty of Management, University of Tampere


Music from
Giacomo Puccini “Madame Butterfly”
Franz Schubert “Der Wegweiser”
Antonio Vivaldi  “Giustino”
Giuseppe Verdi “La Traviata” 
George Frideric Handel “Giulio Cesare”
Richard Wagner “Götterdämmerung”
Jean Sibelius “Die stille Stadt”