YksinenThe Island
Two women, a retired ophthalmologist who wants to build a house, and a young single-parent architect, are stranded on a remote island when their motorboat doesn’t start. Thus begins this classically-proportioned play, recounting the events of a single twenty-four hour period. In this play, nature takes stock of the women just as the women take stock of each other. The rich widow’s ironic indifference collides with the architect’s rigid dogmatism in a way which makes the audience laugh and think at the same time. The play asks big questions: the place of an individual in the cosmos, the status of women, and the helplessness of modern people in the face of nature when technology fails.
The play has been translated into Danish, English, Estonian, French, German, Russian and Spanish. It has been performed at the Rostock Volkstheater in Germany and at the VAT Theatre in Tallinn.
