Residency work2025

Make Orwell Great Again

Cirque Bono was the residency production of summer 2025, worked on intensively for three weeks in Teatteri Sujo’s barn. Before that, the piece took shape during a residency at Cirko, the Center for New Circus, and in rehearsal periods in Turku and Espoo. The result was a wild, razor-sharp and irresistibly absurd circus dystopia.

Welcome to a hog-wildly funny reality where the boundaries of power, identity and the animal side of human society begin to blur. Make Orwell Great Again is a physical and visual contemporary circus piece in which circus art, live music and imagination merge into a breathtaking spectacle about power.
Performances at Teatteri Sujo’s barn theatre
Pyssymäentie 73, 74550 Pörsänmäki

In collaboration with Kosmos Collective

Company

Concept and idea: Hilma Heinonen and Minna Tikkanen
Script: Hilma Heinonen, Hermanni Ahomies, Liina Selvinen, Jeannette Rönkkö and Minna Tikkanen
Direction: Jeannette Rönkkö
Ensemble choreography: Minna Tikkanen and the company
On stage: Jeannette Rönkkö, Hilma Heinonen, Hermanni Ahomies, Liina Selvinen, Minna Tikkanen, Topi Marin and Vesa Virtanen
Music and composition: Topi Marin and Vesa Virtanen
Costumes: Jeannette Rönkkö and the company
Mask making: Meri Salo
Mask and puppet making: Emmi Astikainen
Lighting and video design: Tuomas Vainionpää
Scenography: Emmi Astikainen and Tuomas Vainionpää
Made possible by: Kaisanet, Kumpele Oy, Lahtisen vahavalimo, Loivanpojat, Minela Foundation, Niilo Helander Foundation, Nouxtop, Nuuksion Taika, Piagrina, Talouspalvelut TiMa, Teatteri Hyökyvuori, Turun sirkus, Turku Arts Academy, Esko Circus and Theatre School (Espoo) and Cirko, the Center for New Circus
Photos on black background: Anssi Riihimäki @ar_photography
Performance photos: Markku Heinonen