"These women are raw and cruel, funny and intelligent, but also active agents and complete personalities. They do not appear in history books, and even in the 90s, they were not heard about in school at history lessons. We get to know these women through theater up close.

Too often, interesting women have been reduced to being their lovers' partners, holy madonnas, or footnotes in grand narratives. These women have had their own incredible lives, which the men of history should no longer overshadow,” says the Spindrift Theatre group about their stage production.

The play is based on Maria Pettersson's book “Historian jännät naiset” (“The Exciting Women of History”).

Spindrift Theatre is a Nordic group founded in 2013. Spindrift consists of female actors who work collectively and without hierarchy.

For the performance, Ukrainian jazz pianist Marina Kramarenko has joined Spindrift and is in residency in Finland through the Artists at Risk network. Together with the actors, she has created a language where music and the actor's body dialogically paint the world of the performance.

On stage:

Actors Marjo Lahti and Pinja Hahtola

Musician Marina Kramarenko

Duration 1 h

Seated audience.

Kaikukortti-event.

Historian jännät naiset

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