about
sadsongskomplex:fi
sadsongskomplex:fi is an internationally operating professional theatre company and an ensemble of independent artists. Founded in 2015, the Helsinki-based ensemble has shot to fame touring several significant international theatre festivals in the last couple of years – among others in Avignon, St. Petersburg, Edinburgh, Novgorod, Brussels, Tbilisi, Maribor and Luxembourg. Focusing on high quality art, our theatre ensemble deliberately avoids having its own venue so as not to be tied to one place, a bit like a cuckoo using the nest of others. The group has premiered many co-productions abroad and there’s more to come. The vision of sadsongskomplex:fi is to build artistic bridges with old and new partners between North and South, East and West.
productions & co-productions
2013 - 2015
Sad Songs from the Heart of Europe (Lappeenranta City Theatre Finland)
2016
Дядя Ваня / Uncle Vanya (Novgorod Academic Drama Theatre, Novgorod, Russia)
Ледяные картины / Frozen Images (A.C.Griboedov -Theatre, Tbilisi, Georgia)
I am Faransis W. (Koko Theatre, Helsinki, Finland)
2017
The Passion of Ione (Shota Rustaveli Theatre & Film University, Tbilisi, Georgia)
2018
Игрок - The Gambler (Novgorod Academic Drama Theatre and Novgorod Philharmonics, Novgorod, Russia)
2019
Чайка / The Seagull (A.C.Griboedov & Liberty Theatre, Tbilisi, Georgia)
2020
Očiščenje / Purge (SLG Celje, Celje, Slovenia)
Hedda Gabler (Grand Théâtre de Luxemburg, Luxemburg, Luxemburg)
2021
Melancholia (Kajaani City Theatre, Kajaani, Finland)
Грустные песни из сердца Европы / Sad Songs from the Heart of Europe
(Dostojevsky-museum Theatre, St Petersburg & Vysotski-Theatre, Moscow, Russia)
2022
Žalostinke iz srca Evrope / Sad Songs from the Heart of Europe (SLG Celje, Celje, Slovenia)
…and the rest is silence (Helsinki, Finland)
2023
Ultimo Atto/Final Act (premiered at Teatro Luigi Garzoni in Tricesimo, Italy)
Neuvostoihmisen loppu / The Last of The Soviets (Helsinki 00980, Helsinki, Finland)
2024
…and the rest is silence (Celje, Slovenia)
festivals & touring
sadsongskomplex:fi productions
2013
STAGE Korjaamo/Helsinki Festival (Helsinki, Finland)
XVII International Dostoevsky Chamber Plays Festival (Novgorod/Staraya Russa, Russia)
2014
Pärnu International Theatre Festival Monomaffia (Pärnu, Estonia)
Tbilisi International Festival of Theatre (Tbilisi, Georgia)
Atspindys International Festival of Monoplays (Visaginas, Lithuania)
2015
F. M. Dostoevsky Literary Museum Theatre (St Petersburg, Russia)
2016
The International Selection 2015-2016 BOZAR Center for Fine Arts/
Théâtre National de la Communaute Française /
Royal Flemish Theatre KVS (Brussels, Belgium)
Théâtre du Centaure (Luxembourg, Luxembourg)
Le Gueulard (Nilvange, France)
2017
Festival d'Avignon OFF (Avignon, France)
Edinburgh Festival Fringe (Edinburgh, UK)
Belaya Vezha International Festival of Theatre (Brest, Belarus)
HighFest International Festival of Theatre Arts (Yerevan, Armenia)
Karelian National Theatre (Petrozavodsk, Russia)
53. Bortšnikovo, Maribor International Theatre Festival (Maribor, Slovenia)
2018
Vadabuse Festival Teater Vanemuine (Tartu, Estonia)
Festival d'Avignon OFF (Avignon, France)
2023 - 2025
Ultimo Atto/Final Act, in-house production premiered at Teatro Luigi Garzoni in Tricesimo/Italy in 2023 & is on tour in Italy throughout the season 2024/2025.
festivals & touring
co-productions
2016
Tbilisi International Festival of Theatre (Tbilisi, Georgia)
Batumi Drama Theatre (Batumi, Georgia)
Festival of Russian Culture, (Helsinki, Finland)
Belaya Vezha International Theatre Festival (Brest, Belarus)
2017
Baltiyskiy Dom – Meetings in Russia | International Theatre Festival (St Petersburg, Russia)
Melikhovskaya Vesna International Chekhov Festival (Melikhovo, Russia)
Kanneltalo, Helsingin kulttuurikeskus (Helsinki, Finland)
2019
XXII International Dostoevsky Theatre Festival (Novgorod, Russia)
2021
56. Bortšnikovo, Maribor International Theatre Festival (Maribor, Slovenia)
