VARIATION no I

Block theatre’s show Variation no I studies creation and destruction, both deeply rooted in human beings. The performance discusses the importance of form, and how we both treasure it and yearn to destroy it. The show is directed by the internationally acclaimed theatre director Yana Tumina, who is also in charge of the dramaturgy.

 

Tumina feels the wooden blocks are a unique material, and an endless source of ideas. She calls them an extraordinary dictionary, capable of building immense towers of different themes and situations. Creation and destruction, freedom and repression, emerged as the main themes almost of their own free will. The wooden blocks are a way to explore our inner capabilities to build and to destroy – the beginning and the end to form.

 

The peculiar dramaturgy for the wooden blocks emerges from a space, where the most basic of forms, patterns and movement follow their own rules. The message of Variation no I is not aimed at a particular target or age group. The show is an honest meditation on oneself in the world, and the relationship between humans and their creations. Variation no I is the beginning to a story, and can be continued by studying the unique wooden forms. The show has toured Finland, and has also been performed at international festivals in Estonia, Slovenia, and Russia.

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