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Gospodin Prtljag Gospodin Prtljag (Mr Matkatavara) je predstava za celu porodicu, a ne samo za decu i ona prikazuje čoveka kóji je čvrsto odlučio da sebe i svoj prtljag prebaci u Honkong. AU šta se dešava kada se on za vrenie zástoj a u saobračaju nade medu pozorišnom rekvizitom usred same pozornice. Kako da se vráti do aviona? Uprkos mnogih teškoča i prepreka, ova predstava pokazuje kako čovek môže da se izvuče iz teške situacije ako je uporan, Gospodin Prtljag je zasnovan na pantomimi, akrobatici i madioničarskim veštinama. Môže se reči da G. Prtljag ipak govori. To, medutim, nije fínski niti bilo kóji drugi prepoznatljivi jezik, vec neka vrsta uverljivog jezika. Ulogu G. Prtljaga igra Jyrki Nousiainen, poznal po svojim brojnim klovnovskim ulogama. Predstavu je režirao u Gradskom pozorištu, kao gost, Seppo-ilmari Siitonen. Heikki Huopainen, kóji se u predstaví pojavljuje kao G. Clickety Clack, zadužen je u predstaví za specijalne efekte. Predstava je prvi put prikazana u Grad-

skom pozorištu u Helsinkiju 10. oklobra 1981. godine, □

Mr. Luggage Mr. Luggage is a play directed not only for children but for the whole family, and it tells about a little man who is determined to get himself and his luggage to Hongkong. But meanwhile, what happens, when, during a stop-over, he finds himself amid the theatre-props, and eventually right up on the stage itself,..? How will he ever find the right way back to his plane? Amid imminent threats from this remarkable technology Mr. Luggage shows us how one, little man can survive if he doesn’t give up. Mr. Luggage is based on the outward physical expressions of the actor on mime, acrobatics, and conjurers’ tricks. It is not concerned with the limitations of speech, and though it is true that Mr. Luggage speaks, during the performance, it is not Finnish, however, nor any other recognizable language, but a kind of make-believe language. In the part of Mr. Luggage, is Jyrki

Nousiainen, who is well-known in Finland for his many previous clown-roles. The performance is directed by visiting-director Seppo-Ilmari Siitonen. Heikki Huopainen (who also appears in the performance as Mr. Clickety Clack) is responsible for special effects. The first night was on the small stage of the City Theatre on the 10th odober, 1981 and there have been 46 performances since then. □

The smile & the tear of a clown To date, there hasn’t been a more lovable example of its type of virtuosity to take shape on our stage than Jyrki Nousiainen’s distinctively mimetic, and acrobatic adaptation of Mr. Luggage on the small stage of the City Theatre, Nousiainen, is here unique among us, in that he is the sole exponent of this ancient and timeless art of clowning, and as such, we ought to welcome this phenomeniento our straight stage. He has joyfully demonstrated this art, by setting his act in the cargo department of an airport, and using

as his subject the odd dilemma of this little man, while he muses over how, when, and what, will explode next from this highly unpredictable well-travelled luggage, or world. In an outsized clown’s smock and a T-shirt with a motif of Picasso’s famous, white dove - well-worn from its constant subjections to coats of white wash - Jyrki Nousiainen, seals in the mind of the audience what he is trying to say through his performance - namely; how threatened the position of the little man is, - who loves life, and all the small pleasures of living, and who can, given very little, perform very clever tricks, from - a flower in a window - conjurers’ boxes, a very old bicycle-device, and balloons that go up, and up, and up, before bursting! Many of Nousiainen’s numbers border on the acrobatic, His litheness and physical expressiveness tell at least as effectively as spokenmime, if not more, about the little man’s fears and disappointments, his joys and sorrows. Strictly speaking, it isn’t quite right to talk about Mr. Luggage in terms of a pantomime-language - his, is a funny, make-believe kind of language, which one sometimes thinks one has heard before, but then again one isn’t sure... However, Jyrki Nousiainen, somehow manages well to sew up the whole thing together at