Plus Terveys

The cermony was my final thesis at the Art University theatre academy’s Directing department. I wanted to research the border between the real and the magical as well as the dramatic character and stripped down present self.

I wanted to work with a comedy topic and started seeing an air balloon expedition. I recalled the tragic Andrée Polar Expedition from 1897 that was lost in the Arctic for 33 years and realised that this was a magnificent topic for comedy. As Woody Allen put it ”Comedy is tragedy plus time”. This was my third research into developing Artistic Collaborative Tools. This time the work group of 4 writer/actors had to work with documentary material.