TOIVOLA festival: Jani Toivola: Rakkaudesta
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Date
14.11-14.11.2025
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Duration
2 h 15 min (inc. intermission)
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Venue
Pannu Hall
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Tickets
39–25 €
Show times
Fri 14 Nov 2025, 7pm
Introduction
Rakkaudesta is a deeply personal, touching, and humorous one-man show by Jani Toivola about love and the longing for it. It speaks of the marks life leaves behind and of new beginnings. Of parenthood and of living in a man’s body. What does joy, sorrow, or parenthood feel like in a male body? What is a man’s body like when it is vulnerable or fragile? How does it express deep fulfillment or blissful happiness? What does reconciliation with one’s body mean to a man? And what is a man’s longing for closeness with another man like?
The performance is based on Toivola’s 2021 book Rakkaudesta. The evening takes the audience on a journey from a sweaty suburban school gym to New York’s gay clubs, and to a small Luo village in the Kenyan countryside, in search of lost roots. Rakkaudesta is a story about the longing to love oneself—and others.
“This is what I’ve learned about love: there are no rules.”
Rakkaudesta is part of the TOIVOLA Festival.
Ticket information
Standard ticket | 39 €
Discount ticket | 25 € (Students, pensioners, unemployed, conscripts)
Wheelchair + assistant | 39 €
Pay What You Can | A small number of "Pay What You Can" tickets are also on sale for the performance.
The auditorium is unnumbered.
Ticket sales via Tiketti. Please contact Tiketti in all ticket inquiries.
Credits
On stage: Jani Toivola + dresser
Director: Emilia Hernesniemi
Writer: Jani Toivola
Choreography: Jasmir Vesander
Sound design: Satu Kankkonen
Lighting design: Siri Haapanen
Costume design: Claudia Cifu
