Vampira

Susanna Airaksinen – Rosa-Maria Perä

VAMPIRA

How to dig your own grave with your mouth

Directed by Susanna Airaksinen

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Cast Tommi Eronen, Vilma Melasniemi, Isla Mustanoja, Alina Tomnikov and Juho Uusitalo

The play Susanna Airaksinen and Rosa-Maria Perä
Director Susanna Airaksinen
Set design Janne Vasama
Costume design Joona Huotari
Light design Tomi Suovankoski
Sound design Jani Rapo
Make-up design Leila Mäkynen
Dressmaker and modist Fiona Timantti

Audience outreach Jenni Bergius ja Maaretta Riionheimo

Rights Agency North

In 1954, a late-night television broadcast shows a candle in the middle of smoke. A woman in black with an incredibly narrow waist approaches the camera. She lets out a blood-curdling shriek and sighs in relief. “Ahh. Screaming relaxes me.” Television history has been made.

The story of Maila Nurmi is anything but a typical rags-to-riches tale. She made her way to stardom during Hollywood’s golden age and quickly rose to world fame, but just as quickly her career also withered. Just over a year after the start of the Vampira Show, Nurmi was fired and ended up being hounded by the scandalous press. Maila Nurmi’s stardom was over, but the Vampira character lived on, enriching many spiritually and some also financially. Nurmi herself died poor and reclusive.

Written by Susanna Airaksinen and Rosa-Maria Perä, Vampira combines camp spirit and black humor with an incredible life story. The work is a praise for the richness of imagination, strangeness, outsiders and failure.

Welcome to the footsteps of a cult icon!
English translation provided in all performances.

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DATES

FEBRUARY

Mon 10.2. 18.30 (preview)
Tue 11.2. 18.30 (preview)
Wed 12.2. 18.30 (premiere)
Fri 14.2. 18.30
Sat 15.2. 13.00
Fri 21.2. 18.30
Sat 22.2. 18.30
Tue 25.2. 18.30
Wed 26.2. 18.30
Fri 28.2. 18.30

MARCH

Sat 1.3. 13.00
Wed 5.3. 18.30
Thur 6.3. 18.30
Fri 7.3. 18.30
Sat 8.3. 18.30
Tue 11.3. 18.30
Wed 12.3. 18.30
Fri 14.3. 18.30
Sat 15.3. 18.30
Tue 18.3. 18.30
Wed 19.3. 18.30
Fri 21.3. 18.30
Sat 22.3. 13.00
Thur 27.3. 18.30
Fri 28.3. 18.30
Sat 29.3. 18.30

APRIL

Tue 1.4. 18.30
Wed 2.4. 18.30
Fri 4.4. 18.30
Sat 5.4. 18.30
Wed 9.4. 18.30
Thur 10.4. 18.30
Fri 11.4. 18.30
Sat 12.4. 13.00
Tue 22.4. 18.30
Wed 23.4. 18.30
Fri 25.4. 18.30
Sat 26.4. 13.00
Tue 29.4. 18.30