Play Rape
Play Rape

Summary/Abstract: In our drama column, we publish the text of Finnish actress Anna Paavilainen’s one-woman show. Play Rape – written, directed and performed by Paavilainen – premiered in 2014 at the Pop Up Art House in Helsinki. In the show inspired by her own experience as an actor, Paavilainen’s staged persona of a creator is reflectively intertwined with the figures of other iconic Finnish actresses. The text is a personal, ironic and shattering cultural study about what it means, in a man-centered theatrical and dramatic tradition, for actresses to perform on stage, night by night the violence directed mainly against them. It is also the portrait of a young actress who has just had enough of this​ all.

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