What: The Finn-Brit Players Summer Party
When: Saturday, 18th June 2011 from 2pm onwards
Where: Koff park (Sinebrychoff Park) Bulevardi 40, 00120 Helsinki (MAP)
Welcome to the Finn-Brit Players summer party 2011 at the Koff park on Saturday, 18th June. We will have snacks and bubbly available so please get there early at 2pm, and bring a friend to celebrate the summer with us!
In case of rain we will move the party to the FBS premises at Fredrikinkatu 20 A, 00120 Helsinki.
Welcome!
Staged Reading
WHAT: Staged reading – The Birthday Party by Harold Pinter
WHERE: FINNBRIT, Fredrikinkatu 20 A 9 (map)
WHEN: Friday, 25th March, 7pm
Following the success of our last two staged readings, The Finn-Brit Players’ Harold Pinter Project continues with a staged reading of The Birthday Party.
One of the most famous flops in recent theatrical history at its first London performance in 1958, The Birthday Party is now revered as a classic popular drama with deep political resonance. The characters in the seaside boarding house are all people Harold Pinter had come across.
The repartee is hilarious and vicious in turn, the dialogue mundane, descriptive, reflective, witty, threatening: the play is described as brilliant, baffling and bizarre.
It reflects Pinter’s obsession with power politics and the capacity of the human spirit to resist total submission. As he said of Petey’s line towards the end of the play: ‘Stan, don’t let them tell you what to do’, “I’ve lived that line all my life”.
The cast includes Stewart Gray, Angie Hämäläinen, Mark Durrant, Zoë Chandler, Jonathan Hutchings and Daniel McMullen. The reading is directed by Joan Nordlund and stage-managed by Beth Morton.
FREE ENTRANCE
Wine and snacks will be served.
February Play Reading, Part 2
WHAT: Play reading – The Old Wives Tale
WHERE: FINNBRIT, Fredrikinkatu 20 A 9 (map)
WHEN: Friday, 25th February, 7pm
At play readings we read a play out loud. One person leads the reading and assigns roles. Everybody gets a chance to read.
Nely Keinänen will lead this reading of The Old Wives Tale.
The Old Wives Tale, by George Peele, is an early comedy performed by the Queen’s Men, one of the most important theatrical troupes in the age of Shakespeare (or more precisely, in the decade prior to the age of Shakespeare). Although now forgotten by all but the most dedicated scholars, the play nevertheless has its charms. The play is a mish-mash of different styles and genres, with elements drawn from folktales and other sources.
Free entrance. Bring a bottle and a friend. Remember that play readings are not performances!
