ABOUT THEATRE

The TOTEM Theatre was founded in 1986. It is one of the three professional theatres in Espoo focusing on children’s theatre. The TOTEM Theatre is a professional travelling theatre. Its central function is to promote the Finnish children’s culture in the Theatre’s home town Espoo, as well as elsewhere in Finland. The Theatre carries out this task by producing theatre performances directed to children as well as arts education activities.


ABOUT PERFORMANCES
The TOTEM-theatre confines itself to the form of small-scale theatrical performances where visuality, too, continues the minimalistic line. Art is not just something large and impressive. The original esthetics of the performances, created by the combination of different art forms, an expression almost without any words and of visual minimalism, is the artistic choice of The TOTEM Theatre. The unity it creates allows the the audience of children to complement the story with their own thoughts, feelings, and words.