LOHIVAIMO

IN COLLABORATION WITH HIT HELSINKI

“Lohivaimo” (“The Salmon’s Wife”) is a site-specific solo piece exploring the patriarchal structures of marriage. It draws inspiration from the Icelandic Laxdæla saga and the story of Gudrún
Ósvífrsdóttir.

“Lohivaimo” starts off with the audiences meeting a cheerful bride, who has gone into hiding a day before her wedding. Unable to face the pressures of matrimony, she has decided to reside in an abandoned fishing hut and has found a pile of dead fish to keep her company. In her hiding place, she has found the thousand years old Laxdaela Saga and starts to identify herself with the saga’s heroine, Gudrún Ósvífrsdottir. Gudrún was a strong an independent viking woman, who lost and murdered her four husbands.

The Bride ends up contemplating, whether marriage is ever a preferable option for a woman and what are her chances for independence as somebody’s wife. Should one choose love or freedom, or are both possible?

The performance is produced by a Finnish theatre company HIT Helsinki (https://www.hithelsinki.com/lohivaimo) and has its premier on 19th November 2020 in Honkaluoto island, Helsinki.

CREATIVES

PERFORMER/CONCEPT Anna Korolainen Crevier (Spindrift)

DRAMATURGE Jonna Nummela

DIRECTOR Bergdís Júlia Jóhannsdottir (Spindrift)

SPACE DESIGNER Snæfríður Sól Gunnarsdóttir

COMPOSER Annimaria Koivunen

PRODUCER Pauliina Alanko

PHOTOGRAPHER Julian Schröpel

GRAPHIC DESIGNER Louis Crevier