Dante and Shakespeare divide the modern world between them; there is no third – T.S. Eliot

In hell suffering has no meaning. In Purgatory, on the other hand, suffering strives for something and thus despair shall never have place in it. – Olof Lagercrantz

Two things fill the mind with ever-increasing wonder and awe, the more often and the more intensely the mind of thought is drawn to them: the starry heavens above me and the moral law within me. - Immanuel Kant (also written on his gravestone)

Essay on Dante’s Purgatory is an hommage to the second part of Dante Alighieri’s Divine Comedy, a journey into the seven deadly sins, the need for purification and the feeling of eternal yearning. What is sacred to us? Can we be refined through art?

As an base material for the performance we use the architecture of Dante's Purgatory, the herbal gardens of poetry and individual material gathered during sin work shops.

Performances:
April
23/25/27/28/29.4.
May
4./6./7./8.5.

Working Group: Titta Halinen, Ville Härkönen, Edvard Lammervo, Minja Mertanen, Janne Pellinen, Tuire Tuomisto and Mikael Kivelä