Puzzle Theatre: Papa – SAMPO Festival

This theater performance tells, with humor and tenderness, the chaos of moving as seen by a somewhat lost dad, surrounded by cardboard boxes and childhood memories.

PAPA is moving house. He’s completely lost! He can’t find anything anymore, not even his… child! Cardboard boxes everywhere – what an incredible playground!

When you move, you leave something behind… or someone…

And you realise there’s a piece of paper missing from the child’s every drawing hanging on the wall…

When you move house, everything is upside down! You no longer know which way is up or down. You don’t know if everything that’s happening is real or if you’re in a funny dream.

In a playful and humorous way, the actor shows curious minds how masks and puppets can be made from pieces of packaging cardboard using simple and inexpensive methods.

Duration: 40 minutes
Language: The performance is nearly wordless and understanding its language is not necessary for enjoying the piece.
Age recommendation: 4 years old and up

Tickets sold at Puppet Theatre Sampo. Basic ticket: EUR 15; support ticket: EUR 20.

Creator, performance: Csaba Raduly
Direction: Pavla Mano
Visual design and costuming: Ivan Stavrev
Masks and puppets: Csaba Raduly and Pavla Mano
Original music: Petya Nedeva

SAMPO Festival

International visual theatre and puppet theatre festival SAMPO is held already for the 10th time in Helsinki and the metropolitan area. This year, the programme includes performances and workshops for children and adults from Canada, France, Italy, Slovakia, and the Ukraine.

Highlights of the programme include the Transport series, whose three performances – from Estonia, Lithuania and Czechia – examine globalisation and sustainable development, as well as Golem – e fango è is mondo by Italian Teatro del Drago, awarded at the Venice Biennale.

SAMPO Festival brings many international artists and performances to Finland for the first time, gathering a wide selection from the multi-faceted canon of visual theatre and puppet theatre for the Finnish stages.