Additional Performances of Seven Brothers at Jyväskylä City Theatre

Theatre legend, director, actor and Finlandia Prize-winning author Juha Hurme brought his own take on Seven Brothers to Jyväskylä in autumn 2025. The adaptation and direction are based on his own new “translation” of the original text. The form of Aleksis Kivi’s original story is ingenious. Nothing comes easily to the seven brothers, so they fail constantly. Each crisis is followed by an intense crisis meeting, where they devise a solution that ends in a new disaster. And then it is time for another meeting! Hurme’s Seven Brothers is a fast-paced story about seven marginalised young people who withdraw to a wilderness forest for ten years to learn both literacy and how to read society. The brothers are like humanity in miniature. Relying on one another, they somehow manage to survive, remain sane and reach the story’s balanced conclusion.

Original work: Aleksis Kivi
Script: Juha Hurme
Director: Juha Hurme (guest)
Set design: Tuukka Toijanniemi
Costume design: Henna Mustamo (guest)
Music and sound design: Tuuli Kainulainen (guest)
Choreography: Elina Wuethrich (guest)
Lighting design: Japo Granlund
Make-up design: Niina Vattulainen
Cast: Paavo Honkimäki, Saara Jokiaho, Anneli Karppinen, Miika Laakso, Hannu Lintukoski, Piia Mannisenmäki, Jukka-Pekka Mikkonen, Jussi-Petteri Peräinen, Elina Saarela, Jouni Salo, Sami Ulmanen, Asko Vaarala, Tytti Vänskä
Performance rights administered by Juha Hurme