Mill Theatre

I founded MYLLYTEATTERI – MILL THEATRE – to create multilayered stage music. I worked as the group’s artistic director and director from 2003 to 2018.

Together with the ensembles I brought together, I developed a physical-visual stage language and poetic theatre, aiming toward abstract stage art and the theatre of the mind.

The productions I directed were always anchored in a specific theme — such as corporeality; the dilemma of escape and encounter; single parenthood; childhood. Yet more important than spoken dialogue has been, for me, the material music emerging from theatrical elements — my stage thinking is connected to the Artaudian tradition.

To deepen my understanding of the human body in space, I studied in Japan and the United States the Suzuki Acting Method developed by theatre director Tadashi Suzuki, as well as the Viewpoints technique, which brings different theatrical elements onto the stage as equal forces.

For each production, I sought a suitable stage either in Finland or abroad. Productions were created not only in Finland but also in Poland, Italy, Scotland, Denmark, Ireland, and Portugal.