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"I know there is no straight road 
No straight road in this world 
Only a giant labyrinth 
Of intersecting crossroads" 
– Federico García Lorca'

In the documentary multi-art work of Porttiteatteri and Compañía Kaari & Roni Martin, the personal experiences of the performers appear on the stage as multifaceted and unapologetic. Flamenco – which in the work is above all synonymous with a passionate attitude and looking at life eye to eye – pulsates around everything. Top Spanish musicians, guitarist Juan Antonio Suárez Cano and singer Victor Carrasco carry the work forward along with violinist Sanna Salmenkallio and musician-composer Roni Martin. 

Porttiteatteri is a community theatre for prisoners in the process of being released and released founded in 2015, and a community of professional artists and performers with a criminal background that is unique in Finland. The theatre implements exceptional and new kind of theatre in co-operation with theatres in Helsinki. www.porttiteatteri.fi  

“Porttiteatteri performances in themselves increase understanding of our common reality. At the same time, their deep impact is based on the disarming commitment of the performers who put their own life choices into play and on the ethos that fights for the general humanity of the whole method." -Tuomas Rantanen, VOIMA 20.5.2019 
 

"When you step out of the performance, you feel like you have seen and experienced something you will not come across right away." -Annikki Alku, Demokraatti 8.6.2018

Workgroup: Porttiteatteri, Tuija Minkkinen, Sanna Salmenkallio, Juan Antonio Suárez Cano, Victor Carrasco, Roni Martin, Kaari Martin, Atro Kahiluoto, Eppu Helle, Jukka Huitila and Topias Toppinen
Production: Porttiteatteri, Compañía Kaari & Roni Martin
Thank you: Arts Promotion Centre Finland, City of Helsinki, Kone Foundation, Finnish Cultural Foundation, Ministry of Education and Culture, TelepArt.