After 2025, POLIS Teatro Festival continues a collaboration with PAV, entrusting texts translated through the international project Fabulamundi Playwriting Europe to local theater companies to create a mise en espace, which is presented as a national premiere at POLIS.

Having incarcerated herself in her apartment, a young woman gradually loses her grip on reality.  Her friendship with a fellow student and neighbor by the name of Ulla soon acquires hints of obsession.  Beneath the minutiae of daily life, the author paints a universally applicable portrait of the yearning for love and affection, of suppressed ambitions and turbulent dreams.

author Eeva Turunen
translation Delfina Sessa
with Alice Giroldini
director Eugenio Sideri

production Centro Teatrale MaMiMò
by kind permission of Nordic Drama Corner
commissioned by POLIS Teatro Festival

duration 60′


Eeva Turunen burst onto the Finnish theatrical scene in 2014 with her debut monologue Muutama sana Ullasta.  An intense and subtly humorous study of obsessive compulsive behavior, the play was an immediate success and gained first prize at the National Monologue Festival in 2015. Turunen was trained as an architect and is a drummer in the band Blondit Amazoonit.  As an author, she displays accuracy for psychological detail without the fetters of realism, confidently exploiting a wide range of linguistic expression. Turunen’s first novel, Ms U Reminisces about Her So-called Relationship History, received the Helsingin Sanomat Literary Prize for best debut of the year.

Eugenio Sideri, born in Romagna in 1968, made his debut as a writer and director at a very young age at the Santarcangelo dei Teatri Festival with Maurizio Lupinelli; he was later a finalist for the Scenario Award. In 2001, he founded the Lady Godiva Teatro company, with which he has produced numerous shows focusing on social issues and civil engagement, including Tantum ergo, Lo squalo, Orazione epica and then events and shows dedicated to the Italian Resistance, such as I 7 Cervi (2026). He wrote and directed Calēre, a tribute to the 100th anniversary of P.P. Pasolini. He combines his writing and directing activities with theatre and writing workshops. His texts have been published in “Sipario” and staged by Italian theatre companies; he has also published several texts for Fernandel editions. Since 2016, he has been running a theatre workshop at Ravenna Prison, becoming a permanent member of the Emilia Romagna Prison Theatre Coordination.
He received the Confesercenti Provincia di Ravenna 2012 culture award and the Ravenna e le sue pagine award, organised by the SIL-Sindacato Librai Confesercenti of Ravenna in 2019.
In 2021, he published his first novel, Ernesto faceva le case; in 2025, he published Kraugè. Tre tragedie italiane, also for Pendragon.