“We would never perform something like this here”: Foreign curators came looking for interesting theater in Finland

International theater curators watched the Jumping Girls performance at the National Theatre. Left Carmen Hornbostel from Vienna, Eugénie Tesson from Paris and Daniel Grünauer from Berlin. Picture: Kimmo Räisänen

The National Theater on the big stage is just about over Jumping girls sold out show. The applause is huge. The auditorium is full of Finns, whom the work hits hard. But can a Swedish theater lover catch it, let alone an Austrian one?