Ojanen & Iivanainen (FIN): FAT BASTARDS

Fat Bastards is a girls’ attempt to grasp the essence of ice-hockey through an off-the-wall lecture. It is a do-it-yourself performance about passion, repulsion and creative destruction. “Football is erotic, ice-hockey is porn.”

In the spring of 2011 girls are peaceful and happy. Then Finland wins the Ice hockey World Championship. Again. This time the girls feel they are somehow left out. They are determined to become a part of the ice hockey race and inhabit the mythical superhero of a world champion. Thus begins a Eurodance journey to the year 1995, when Finland won the previous championship.

Inspired by the hysteria of Finland’s world championship in 1995 and Quentin Tarantino, the girls build a happily frustrated, home-made world of ice hockey. Lovingly they bastardize the national sport of Finland. As is often said, ”If you can’t beat them, join them”.

Anni Ojanen, having graduated from the Theatre Academy Helsinki in 2009, and Hili Iivanainen, graduated in 2010, have worked in several international productions. Ojanen has worked for example in the Von Krahl theatre in Tallinn and Iivanainen as a director and actress in several theatres in Chicago. In the fall of 2011 Ojanen is also working as a director for the Finnish National Theatre. In Finland Iivanainen has directed performances in the city theatres of Turku and Kotka, and Theatre Telakka.

Producer: Baltic Circle

Supported by: Finnish Cultural Foundation, TINFO – Theatre Info Finland, Theatre Academy Helsinki

CREDITS

Written and directed by: Ojanen & Iivanainen

Cast: Ojanen & Iivanainen

Video: Joonas Tikkanen

Photos: Andrea Brandt

Other artists involved: Dorte Olesen, Jouni Tauriainen, Jenni Kääriäinen, Siru Kosonen, Kirsi Gum, Emily Cheeger, Juho Ala- Juuma, Tuomas Timonen

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