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 made a huge breakthrough into Finnish theatre in 2014 with her monologue
play About Ulla. The intense and slyly funny portrayal of obsession immediately attracted
widespread attention, and in 2015 it was awarded the main prize at the national
monologue festival and nominated for the Lea prize. Her second play, Isoisä, ilman
muuta (Grandpa, Without a doubt), is a tragicomic work about two relatives and
abandonment. Turunen has developed the text in the New Play Finland project, and the
text has been translated into Hungarian and Swedish. Turunen is also a prose writer: Her
debut book, Neiti U. muistelee niin sanottua ihmissuhdehistoriaansa (Miss U. recalls
her so-called relationship history), won the Helsingin Sanomat Literature
Prize and was nominated for the Runeberg Prize. Her novel Sivistynyt ja miellyttävä
ihminen (A Civilized and Pleasant Person) was nominated for the
Finlandia Prize for fiction and won the Kalevi Jäntti Prize. Turunen’s style is characterized
by psychological insight, which, however, does not get bogged down in realism, but uses
the range of linguistic expression in a diverse and confident manner. Turunen is an
architect by training. She also plays in bands and occasionally performs audio-literature
performances.



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.