PuputyttöThe Bunny Girl
A woman sits alone in a restaurant. Images flash in front of her eyes. Her whole life she has wanted to be something else: a sweet, pure little girl, a sexy bombshell, an attractive wife. Someone worth loving. But there’s always something wrong with her; she doesn’t know how to act the way a woman should. The voice of fate calls out: “You will end up alone.” Rage bubbles up inside her, erupting in violent, bloody visions. Tonight she must either turn in a new direction or face the ultimate dead end.
Saara Turunen’s powerful play progresses in a ferocious stream-of-consciousness, blending levels of reality into a color-saturated fresco. The pressures women face are given a stinging, concrete form, and childhood and adulthood melt into one another in a genuinely theatrical way. The play offers opportunities for a variety of interpretations and executions, and its open format encourages the director and the actors to bring their own original ideas to the work.
The play has been translated into English, German, French, Hungarian, Slovak, Spanish, Danish, Polish, Italian, Estonian, Czech and Russian. The play has been published in Mexico by the Paso de Gato Theatre Editorial, and in Belgium by the Samsa Editions.
In addition to the Finnish productions, it has been produced at the Barcelona Theatre Institute, invited to the Sala Beckett, the Sirály Theater in Budapest, also invited to Vidor-Festival in Nyíregyháza, the Teatro El Granero de Centro Cultural del Bosque in Mexico City, invited to the Festival Cervantino, Guanajuato, Mexico, in Divadlo Letí Theater in Prague, and as a radio drama at the Estonian Public Broadcasting (ERR).
