By borrowing its name from medieval theater slang for the stage, The Green promises visually powerful theater that utilizes stage magic, video projections, film sound, and stage compositions as its expressive tools. Director and performer Kalle Nio starts from a contemporary sense of emptiness and combines it with references to 19th-century spiritualism and magic. The void of the empty stage and green background slowly transforms into a living character that takes over the stage area. By combining 19th-century stage magic techniques with the latest video and sound technology, this "wordless performance" mood ranges from everyday to abstract and magical.

Kalle Nio, director, performer

Kalle Nio (1982) is a visual artist and a magician from Finland. He combines historical stage magic techniques with contemporary video projection technologies and theatrical elements in his works. He is a co-founder of WHS, a company producing new circus and visual theatre, and one of the founders of Teatteri Union, an art-house cinema and performing arts venue in Helsinki. His aim is to find new ways to use illusions and magic as expressive elements in a live show and also to combine video projections seamlessly with live performance. His works as a visual artist deal mainly with the subjects of seeing and the collisions of magic, cinema, and the human body. He has a master’s degree in fine arts from the University of Arts Helsinki. With his group WHS he has performed in more than 40 different countries. His visual arts exhibitions have been shown in museums and galleries in Finland and abroad. He has been awarded nationally and internationally for his magic, visual arts, and projection design innovations.