Virtual tour
Walk into Sujo
Filmed in Pörsänmäki, August 2025. The music is piano and rain.
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Among fields and lakes
The road to Sujo ends between open fields and a lake. Silence and birdsong are the first act every visitor sees. On the best days you can watch Kyösti Marin, who owns the barn, rowing out on Pitkäjärvi.
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The forest is a mirror
Birch and spruce surround the barn. The Finnish soul lives in the forest, and it shows on stage too: Egokatastrofi put it in one line: “Nature is life. The forest is a mirror.”
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The yard
Fireweed, tall grass and red-and-white outhouses. The farmyard is a postcard of the Finnish summer. It is also the theatre's foyer, where people meet before and after the show.
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The barn
Kyösti Marin's old barn got a new life in 2018, when Topi Marin and the villagers of Pörsänmäki turned it into a theatre with their own hands. The weathered boards now carry stories.
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The stone path
Flat stones lead round the back of the barn, where the lake glints behind the raspberry bushes. This landscape is where Sujo comes from. Many a summer the barn is home to swallows as well, and we share the space with them.
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At the door
The Sujo sign, the posters and the ticket desk. Door sales open an hour before each show, and tickets are paid on the spot.
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The stage
Inside wait a black floor and timber walls. Every project shapes the space into its own, and the volunteer spirit stays the same: before a show the whole company picks up a broom and checks the lights. The barn has held a theatre-in-the-round and a stage built into the old manure cellar.
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Inside out
When the doors open, the lights of the show and the summer-evening forest sit on either side of the same threshold. At Sujo, art and nature are never apart.
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The steps back out
The steps lead from the barn back out to the yard, between the field and the forest. This is where people stay talking after a show, often for a good while. Come and see what is made here.
Welcome to Pörsänmäki
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Music by Konstantin Nestsiarovich from Pixabay.