The Flower Girl (2022)

NoName Theatre, Helsinki, Finland.

September 23, 24, 25, 28 and 30, and October 01, 2022.

This is a tale about the death and rebirth of our inner child.
It tells the story of a humble flower girl that is caught in a modern, dystopian world, where the beauty of natural things has been replaced by technology and the monotony of work. She wants nothing else than to make money to help her beloved mother, who is very ill.
It is about the life of this girl, and how her inner child slowly disappears through the hardships and grey monotony of modern life in the gray, modern and oppressive city. There are glimpses of her life through childhood, school, her job at the circus, her university experience and her first job as a politician's secretary.
In an ironic twist, and as a result of voicing her opinions at work, she loses her job and so much more. Numb, she becomes focused on getting yet another job, as quickly as possible.
Her mobile phone becomes her only connection to the outside world. Endless days of searching. Gray days of fruitlessness. The flowers she so loved as a child, now not much else than dry remains in a cold vase.
In a dream she meets her inner child, but yet she continues to be focused on finding a job. This obsession will eventually lead her into becoming another half-dead.
But she will be rescued by the inner child.

Writer, director and co-producer

The 2022 production of the rewritten version of The Flower Girl initially staged in 2018. Authored and directed by H.S. Fernandez.
This production received a stunning review, which in Finland is an extremely rare occurence.

Lukupino: The Flower Girl - The Finn-Brit Players

Iiris Kopranen - Young Calla
Elisa Benedetti - Adult Calla
David Rogers - Carl Robespierre
Annamari Lattunen - Calla's Mother
Pia Vaquer - Mrs. Rand
Jamini Kavoori - Mira / Susan Vilar
Raiyan Amin - Mikhail Bakunin
Sanjay Shrestha - Andrej Bakunin
Branislav "Baane" Dakovic - Ivan the Magician / Tristo
Jonathan Lagerquist - Hercules / Professor / Politician
Alexis Quintana Sainz - Student / Politician
Miho Otaki - Elisa / Politician
Sontra Samela - The Dream

Timo Karppinen - Lighting Design
Zachariah Chamberlaine - Co-Producer
H.S. Fernandez - Writer, director and co-producer