Puzzle Theatre: Papa - SAMPO Festival

PAPA is moving - and everything is lost. A father gets lost among cardboard boxes and childhood memories, unable to find anything anymore, not even his child. Yet the cardboard boxes turn out to be a wonderful playground, and pieces of paper begin to disappear from the children's drawings on the wall...

The performance is a humorous and tender story about the chaos of moving, told from the father's perspective. After each show, the actor demonstrates to the audience in an interactive moment how to make masks and puppets from cardboard box pieces using simple methods.

Duration: 40 minutes. The performance contains very little dialogue, and understanding it is not necessary to enjoy the show. Age recommendation: 4 years and up.

Tickets are sold by Nukketeatteri Sampo. Ticket price: 15 €, support ticket: 20 €.

Creator and performer: Csaba Raduly. Direction: Pavla Mano. Visual design and costumes: Ivan Stavrev. Masks and puppets: Csaba Raduly and Pavla Mano. Original music: Petya Nedeva.

SAMPO Festival

The international festival of visual theatre and puppet theatre is held for the tenth time in Helsinki and the capital region. The programme features performances and workshops for children and adults from Canada, France, Italy, Slovakia, and Ukraine.

The festival programme includes three performances from the Transport series addressing globalisation and sustainable development from Estonia, Lithuania, and the Czech Republic, as well as the Italian Teatro del Dragon work Golem - e fango è il mondo, which was awarded at the Venice Biennale. The programme also features performances from domestic puppet theatre.