The Bitter Tears of Petra von Kant

In the ‘Kitsch und Kunst’ boudoir/ateljé of successful fashionista Petra von Kant, only beauty is allowed. The countess’s relationships with her faithful and adoring maid Marlene, with her submissive bestie Sidonie, with her excitable daughter Gabi and with her distant mother Valerie are established, exploitative, and comfortable. But soft! What light from yonder window breaks? It is the East, and Karin is the disrupter! From love at first sight, though jealousy, conflict, music, and yes, floods of bitter tears, can the course of love run true? Can Petra can pull herself out of her spiral of alcoholism and despair, and reboot her relationships with the women in her life, or lose everything…?

This 1972 play is said to have been Fassbinder’s update to Thomas Mann’s classic ‘spring & autumn’ romance Death in Venice. It is a tale of love as mismatched as Carol, Orlando, The Duke of Burgundy, or Anaïs in Love, where the power imbalance switches, and switches, and switches again. Who has the whip hand? How can such an odd couple find any kind of balance? And can anything lasting come out of it?

The performance is in ENGLISH.
AGE LIMIT: 15+

CAST
Petra – Elizabeth Whitney
Marlene – Evelina Califano
Karin – Georgia Younger
Sidonie  – Delphine Laniesse
Gabi – Esteri Hellgrén
Valerie – Jessica Calonius

PERFORMANCES at the NoName Theatre (Hietaniemenkatu 7 B in Kamppi)
Sat 11 May 2024 at 2 pm
Sat 11 May 2024 at 7 pm
Sun 12 May 2024 at 2 pm
Fri 17 May 2024 at 7 pm
Sat 18 May 2024 at 7 pm
Sun 19 May 2024 at 2 pm

TICKETS
22.00€ – standard admission
17.60€ – Concessions (students, retired, unemployed)
17.60€ – SHT with the discount code SHT20HKJE
Available from our Holvi store: https://holvi.com/shop/fbplayers/section/petra-von-kant%e2%80%a8

SCHEDULE
The doors will open 30 minutes before the start. Please arrive in good time – due to the setup of the stage, latecomers cannot be admitted.

HOW TO FIND US
The entrance is technically on Lapuankatu, past the K-Market. Ring the ”5th Floor” buzzer to the left of the blue gate under the ”Keskisuomalainen Osakunta” sign. The main door will probably be unlocked, but if not, ring the fifth-floor buzzer by the door. Once inside, take the elevator up to the fifth floor.

ACCESSIBILITY
There is an elevator to the fifth floor. Unfortunately, the premises do not have a wheelchair accessible bathroom.

Presented by arrangement with Nordic Drama Corner Oy