WHAT'S ON
Visit the NoName Theatre website
for details of our
Autumn/Winter 2024 programme
UPCOMING AUDITONS
Auditions for "Moreau" – Sunday 17 November 2024 at 4:30 pm
Auditions for an Evening of Victorian Melodrama – late November/December (date TBA)
Auditions for The Whale – 4 & 5 January 2024 at 13:00–16:00
Auditions for Short n Snappy #7 – January (date TBA)
CALLS FOR SUBMISSIONS
Poetry & Jazz – lost & found – deadline Monday 6 January
Short n Snappy #7 – deadline Friday 27 December
The Neighbors is a simple yet raucous and quick-paced comedy that pokes fun at the shortcomings of modern technology and the people who furiously cling to it. An up-and-coming middle-class family intends to move up the social ladder by inviting their neighbours over for a friendly gathering where they can show off their hi-tech house that is completely run and controlled by a single artificial intelligence unit: Dexter.
As Dexter begins to develop a thought process of its own, the rather dim-witted characters begin to be outsmarted by Dexter and lose focus. Soon enough their initial dignified disposition begins to disintegrate as the facade of their well-planned technological reality begins to crack and show its true, unreliable nature. In the most mundane modern-day setting, The Neighbors will take you on a side-splitting out-of-control downhill ride until the only thing left is utter absurdity.
Written & directed by H. Sven Fernandez
CAST
Kenneth – Paul McGuire
Aurora – Charlotte Riley
Catherine – Delphine Laniesse
Bob – Leben Norrie
Wilbur – Joe Konderla
Daisy – Sarah Puukka
The Maid – Sontra Samela
v.o. Dexter – H. Sven Fernandez
UNDERSTUDIES
Manthoula Bountri, Regina Comi, Pauliina Myllyntaus & Alexis Quintana Sainz
CREW
Light design – Timo Karppinen
Photography – Anni Taponen
PERFORMANCES at the NoName Theatre
Weds 8 March at 8 pm
Fri 10 March at 8 pm
Sat 11 March at 6 pm & 8 pm
Sun 12 March at 3 pm
Weds 15 March at 8 pm
Fri 17 March at 8 pm
Sat 18 March at 6 pm & 8 pm
Sun 19 March at 3 pm
TICKETS
16.00€ – standard admission
12.80€ – Concessions (students, retired, military/civil service, unemployed)
12.80€ – FBP, FINNBRIT, MEETUP & Internations members
Available from our Holvi store
SCHEDULE
The doors will open 30 minutes before the start. Please arrive in good time – due to the setup of the stage the doors will be locked at the start of the show and latecomers cannot be admitted.
HOW TO FIND US
The door to the theatre is the first wooden door to your left right after you go through the black metal gate at Korkeavuorenkatu 17. The doors will open half an hour before the advertised start time of the show. Pls follow the signs/posters.
ACCESSIBILITY
The entrance is down a long flight of stairs and there's no elevator or stairlift.
The Year of the Fool is a gut-wrenching story that will shock and surprise you, and make you question your own place in society. An average modern-day family is caught in a reality where a totalitarian regime suddenly rises to power, forcing them to drastically change the way they interact with their immediate environment and their family and friends. Or are there any friends left in this world at all?
Don't miss this exploration of what "could be" in a world where most people are obsessed with work, and leave more important matters such as freedom and dignity in the hands of those who would seek to oppress and control. The story creeps up on you and attacks you unexpectedly from behind, it is a sudden reversal of luck, a sudden cancellation of everything we hold dear. It will move you in ways you cannot yet imagine.
Written & directed by H. Sven Fernandez
FEATURING:
Buse Gül Atli Tekgül, Victor Bloch, Eva Boyarshinova, Miriam Greenberg, Kevin Katayi, Miho Otaki, Regina Comi, Sontra Samela, Maria Sundquist, Iuliia Tarabarina, Suvi Österman & Petri Järvelä.
This is the final performance of a show premiered by Esbo Arbis this spring.
ONE PERFORMANCE at the NoName Theatre
Monday 8 May at 6 pm
TICKETS
16.00€ – standard admission
12.80€ – Concessions (students, retired, military/civil service, unemployed)
Available from our Holvi store
SCHEDULE
The doors will open 30 minutes before the start. Please arrive in good time – due to the setup of the stage the doors will be locked at the start of the show and latecomers cannot be admitted.
HOW TO FIND US
The door to the theatre is the first wooden door to your left right after you go through the black metal gate at Korkeavuorenkatu 17. The doors will open half an hour before the advertised start time of the show. Pls follow the signs/posters.
ACCESSIBILITY
The entrance is down a long flight of stairs and there's no elevator or stairlift.
Join us for a Shakespearean-themed evening of fun, surprises and just a touch of seriousness!
Experience our two original, and unique, short plays by playwrights Matthew Paines and Angela Gatti. Will you survive the dangerous, sharp guillotine act performed by Jo Hadley? Or, just come to enjoy various sonnets by the great master himself, William Shakespeare.
PERFORMANCE IS FOR ONE NIGHT ONLY!
WHEN: Saturday, 17 September from 19.00 to 21.30
VENUE: NoName Theatre, Korkeavuorenkatu 17, 00130 Helsinki
FEATURED
• Sonnet 130 by William Shakespeare – John Leo
• Balcony scene from Romeo and Juliet by William Shakespeare – Lauri Kivi-Koskinen & Alexandra Sanda
• Kiss her Kate - written by Matthew Paines
• Sonnet 18 by William Shakespeare – John Leo
• The “Head Chopping” Guillotine Extravaganza - written and performed by Jo Hadley
• Gravedigger scene from Hamlet, by William Shakespeare – John Leo & Esteri Hellgrén
• To Be or Not to Be soliloquy from Hamlet, by William Shakespeare – Lauri Kivi-Koskinen
• Macbeth – written by Angela Gatti
KISS HER KATE
Kate 1 – Esteri Hellgrén
Kate 2 – Alexandra Sanda
Pete Ruukio – Matthew Paines
Written and directed by Matthew Paines
MACBETH
Cook and Witch – Jessica Calonius
Maid – Esteri Hellgrèn
Valet and Impersonator – Abel Millán
Statesman – Jo Hadley
Macbeth – Matthew Paines
Written and directed by Angela Gatti
Naughty Shakespeare Evening produced and directed by Alexandra Sanda
TICKETS
12€ – standard admission
9.60€ – Concessions (students, retired, military/civil service, unemployed)
9.60€ – FBP, FINNBRIT, MEETUP & Internations members
Available HERE in our Holvi store.
Poetry and music: An evening with Rebecca Clamp, Hans Wessels and Adrian Goldman
Rebecca and Hans will be performing songs from their latest album In the Bright Air, with songs ranging from quietly tender to epic and dreamy – songs that hold and songs that heal.
Adrian and Rebecca will be performing some of their latest poems, including poems about love, loss, the pandemic. Faces, pictures and feelings.
Painting: One’s portrait hangs in the academy
TWO PERFORMANCES at the NoName Theatre
Sun 3 July at 7 pm
Mon 15 Aug at 7 pm
TICKETS
10€ – standard admission
8€ – Concessions (students, retired, military/civil service, unemployed)
8€ – FBP, FINNBRIT, MEETUP & Internations members
Available HERE in our Holvi store.
– piano (Katrina Goldman) and clarinet (John Millar), intersecrting
After being kept apart by geography and covid, John Millar and Katrina Goldman are thrilled to be collaborating again for the first time since their work on Falsettos in 2019, and would like to invite you to a scintillating musical evening at the NoName Theatre.
SET LIST
– Ukrainian National Anthem, Mykhailo Verbytsky
(arr. Katrina & Aleksis Goldman)
– Intersections, for clarinet and piano, John Millar
– Sonate pour clarinette et piano, Francis Poulenc
– Gentle Earthy Prick, for clarinet, John Millar
– Retraction, for clarinet, John Millar
– Introduzione e Toccata, Einar Englund
PERFORMANCES at the NoName Theatre
Mon 11 Jul at 7:30 pm
Thurs 14 July at 7:30 pm
TICKETS
15€ – standard admission
12€ – Concessions (students, retired, military/civil service, unemployed)
12€ – FBP, FINNBRIT, MEETUP & Internations members
Available HERE in our Holvi store.
Go to school, work, retire, die. Rinse and repeat.
Year in and year out we do the same things, work in the same gray offices, live in the same gray apartments, lead the same gray lives. But inside of all of us lives a little flower girl. A little flower girl named Calla. And she has the power to transform us and show us the wonder of everything we lost along the way, ever since the day we decided that our childhood dreams deserved a proper burial.
The Flower Girl. The story of you. Of us. Of all of us. The story that helps us reconnect to that which we have lost. The story that makes us humans again. Before it's too late.
Written and directed by H. Sven Fernandez.
CAST
Raiyan Amin – Jimmy & Mikhail Bakunin
Jamini Kavoori – Mira & Susan Vilar
Elisa Benedetti – Calla (adult)
Miho Otaki – Elisa
Branislav Dakovic – Ivan & Tristo
Iiris Kopranen – Calla (young)
Jonathan Lagerquist – Hercules & Professor Grant
Annamari Lattunen – Calla's mother
Alexis Quintana Sainz – Student
David Rogers – Carl Robespierre
Sontra Samela – The Dream
Pia Vaquer – Mrs. Rand
Sanjay Shrestha – Alfred & Andrej Bakunin
Politicians
Branislav Dakovic, Miho Otaki, Jamini Kavoori, Alexis Quintana Sainz & Jonathan Lagerquist.
Half-deads
Raiyan Amin, Elisa Benedetti, Branislav Dakovic, Jamini Kavoori, Jonathan Lagerquist, Miho Otaki, Alexis Quintana Sainz, Sontra Samela & Sanjay Shrestha.
CREW
Producer – Zach Chamberlaine
Photography – Anni Taponen
Choreography – Maria Ga'tsal
Sound design – H. Sven Fernandez
Lighting design – Timo Karppinen
Tech operator– H. Sven Fernandez
PERFORMANCES at the NoName Theatre
Sat 24 Sept at 4 pm
Sat 24 Sept at 8 pm
Sun 25 Sept at 6:30 pm
Weds 28 Sept at 7pm
Fri 30 Sept at 7pm
Sat 1 Oct at 4 pm
Sat 1 Oct at 8 pm
TICKETS
20€ – standard admission
16€ – Concessions (students, retired, military/civil service, unemployed)
16€ – FBP, FINNBRIT, MEETUP & Internations members
Available HERE in our Holvi store.