-Arctic Requiem-
Theatre Performance
Production Studio Total
Premiere 21.11.2019, Viirus Theatre, Helsinki, Finland.
Other shows Viirus Theatre 22.-27.11.2019
Duration: 90 minutes
Concept Anna-Maria Lipponen & Petri Tuhkanen
Director Anna-Maria Lipponen
Dramaturgy Laur Kaunissaare (Estonia)
Set, light & video design Petri Tuhkanen
Music & sound design Kristian Ekholm
Costume design Simona Bieksaite (Lithuania / Norway)
On stage Ragnar Uustal (Estonia), Anne Niilola (Kotka City Theatre)
On video Miika Muranen, Ragnar Uustal, Anne Niilola, Lumi
Ice Ice Baby is an absurd journey of two human-like polar bears, Fritz and Knut, traveling from the imprisonment of the zoo back to their ancestors’ lands in Svalbard. The ice cube is melting fast in a shopping cart and the desert is empty except for plastic bottles. As the journey progresses the circumstances become unreasonable and the two friends try to cling on to their last hope; friendship. Lingering between Arctic and post-apocalyptic worlds, the piece is an absurd performance about love, hope and an unreasonable attempt to get by in a world conquered by homo sapiens.
