Maaseudun tulevaisuus
At some point in the future, Finland has been divided into two counties, north and south. In the north, animals have been accorded full civil rights. A former drummer, Maksim Kuorikoski, has set himself up as a modern day shepherd in the ruins of an old church. Unfortunately, the only sheep in his flock is a suicidal alcoholic. Maksim also has other problems to contend with: a runaway animal spirit, the neighboring farmer who is having an affair with a goat, a horse who has ditched his soul, and worst of all, since animal slaughter is no longer legal, hunger.
Leea and Klaus Klemola have created a twisted pastoral drama, a rabidly hilarious in-yer-face fable which seriously avoids any attempt at good taste. Nevertheless, the play is also a curiously winsome fairy-tale about life, death and human nature, written in the Klemolas' unique, characteristically baroque style. The Shepherd is a text loaded with wild theatrical fantasy and deep universal questions.
