The 700-year-old traditional Anatolian puppet art “Karagöz” is coming to Stoa. Karagöz is with you with a modern interpretation.

A traditional Turkish puppet theatre, nearly 700 years old, takes the stage for the first time combining traditional and modern styles. Karagöz and Hacivat are the two main characters. The story is as follows: Karagöz is unemployed, as always, and Hacivat finds him a job in Finland. Karagöz takes orders in a pizzeria. The orders are made in different languages and the customers have various special requests. Karagöz gets all the orders wrong and things become a mess. How can order and harmony be restored? This is a performance about coexistence which uses pizza as the metaphor.

The traditional play of Karagöz was inscribed in 2009 on the Representative List of the Intangible Cultural Heritage of Humanity of the United Nations Educational Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO).

Pizza Pizza Karagöz show is a metaphorical puppet play that tells that people from all different races living in Finland can live in peace and harmony, despite all the differences, we can make each other happy as a whole like a pizza. The show is Swedish, Somali, Iraqi, Turkish. It offers an enjoyable visual with the colorful personalities and costumes of people from different cultures such as Finnish, English, Romani, and Estonian.

With: Filiz Aksu, Mustafa Aksu and M.Emin Aksu