Facelift

A dramedy about the pursuit of a happy life

This show is spoken in Finnish.

Facelift is a warm-hearted and hilariously funny play about whose dreams we try to build our lives upon. 

Sami is a 40-year-old man suffering from a serious case of baby fever. His best friend Markus, meanwhile, is a single father of three trying to manage the chaos of family life on his own. Sami’s sister Henna desperately wants to become a mother, but getting pregnant turns out to be more difficult than expected. Pesonen, who dreams of a life of his own, has ended up caring for his elderly parents, while Sami and Henna’s widowed mother Seija searches for new meaning in life now that her husband has been laid to rest and the children are all grown up.  

The lives of the story’s five main characters intertwine as each of them stumbles along in pursuit of what they imagine to be a happy life. 

Facelift explores starting a family, the search for love, loneliness, longing, the parent–child relationship, and the many twists and turns of family life. Look forward to a funny and deeply human dramedy whose irresistible humour springs from familiar and tragicomic situations. 

For Oulu Theatre, Aleksis Meaney has created a fresh new stage adaptation of Miika Nousiainen’s novel, and he also directs the play. 

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Aleksis Meaney graduated in 2010 with a Master’s degree in Theatre Arts from the Theatre Academy’s Directing Programme and in 2005 with a Master’s degree in Philosophy from the University of Tampere. He has previously adapted and directed stage versions of Miika Nousiainen’s novels Forest Giant (Finnish National Theatre 2013), Raspberry Boat Refugee (Turku City Theatre 2014) and Roots (Finnish National Theatre 2016). He has also worked at the city theatres of Joensuu, Kajaani and Vaasa, as well as at Svenska Teatern, Lilla Teatern, and the Tampere Workers’ Theatre. Facelift is his first production for Oulu Theatre. 

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