Students
Double the Theatre at Åbo Svenska Teater and Aurinkobaletti
When you buy tickets to two performances at the same time – Åbo Svenska Teater’s Romeo and Juliet and Aurinkobaletti’s SOMEONE LIKE ME – you get the Åbo Svenska Teater ticket for €15 (regular price €25) and the Aurinkobaletti ticket for €10.
Tickets can be purchased from each theatre’s web shop with the code STUDENT. Enter the code by clicking on the text “Enter tour code” on the left side of the page. Please bring both tickets with you when attending the performances.
Both productions are suitable for all language groups: Romeo and Juliet is subtitled in Finnish, Swedish, and English, and Aurinkobaletti’s performance contains only a little spoken text.
Read more about English subtitles at Åbo Svenska Teater here.
The campaign applies to selected performances in September and October 2025.
Love and die.
The fervour of youth, immortality, liberation, revolt, conscious defiance.
Romeo and Juliet are struck by an unbelievably intense, palpably passionate feeling, almost an obsession with each other. They want their own voice to be heard, unlike their parents’, they make lightning-fast decisions. Life is here and now.
In a fictional present, the performance seeks parallels with today’s youth culture, violence and crime. They seek their peers, grow towards adulthood in groups. They seek their identity by experimenting on the border between the legal and the illegal. They rebel and revolt against their parents, the adult world and society.
An inherited family feud between Romeo and Juliet’s families represents the polarisation we see in today’s society. Polarisation is a poison, the poison that in Romeo and Juliet’s explosive, impulsive and passionate short-termism becomes their death.
A powerful and energetic ensemble, great personalities and future stars, will be on the Main Stage in autumn 2025.
Every life bears a mysterious coincidence within, and our actions cannot fully define our future beforehand. A theme of fate strongly resonates in us all: it is not something independent of us, but rather a sum of all our choices.
Sasha Pepeljajev’s SOMEONE LIKE ME is a dance piece about choices − about finding our own way, pondering and questioning it. Everything we do affects everyone and everything else − even if it is only in the slightest way.
Could the fluttering wings of a butterfly in Brazil trigger a tornado in Texas?
This piece aims at simulating the butterfly effect. To do this, we will focus on a practically inconspicuous occurrence, then observe its tiny changes and examine the chain of effects associated with the instance.
Consequently, we can get lost in a world of illusion, a certain kind game where our avatar operates and dances unpredictably. And if we get lost, perhaps we can find the right path again through movement − away from a world we understand towards new ideas and spaces, towards friendship with a new and different entity.
Read more about teh piece SOMEONE LIKE ME
To be or not to be!
We offer students discounted tickets for only 15€/ticket when purchased on the day of the show.
Student organization
We are happy to collaborate with student organization – please contact audience coordinator Ida Ridberg, ida.ridberg(a)abosvenskateater.fi