Aniara: Fragments of Time and Space

music by Robert Maggio
w/ Helsinki’s Klockriketeatern
based on the epic poem by Nobel Prize winner Harry Martinson

Friday, September 1 @ 8pm

Temppeliaukion Church, Helsinki, Finland

I dreamt a life but forgot to exist

The last spaceship to leave a dying earth veers off course and heads into eternity; her passengers are left to face the emptiness within and without. Based on the epic poem by Nobel Prize winner Harry Martinson, Aniara follows the physical and emotional voyage of this group, headed forever toward the constellation Lyra.

Combining theater and composed music, Aniara explores the relationship between disparate practices and genres of art, while asking questions about our relationship to one another, to Earth, and to the passage of time. Sometimes cold and brutal, at other times touching, it is a ruthlessly honest view of human nature.

This engagement is supported in part by Mid Atlantic Arts through USArtists International, a program in partnership with the National Endowment for the Arts, the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, and the Trust for Mutual Understanding.

Original support for Aniara was provided to The Crossing by The Pew Center for Arts & Heritage, Philadelphia.