Juudas : Nelinäytöksinen draama

Set against the fading light of a late‑summer evening in a sprawling Finnish manor, the drama opens in a richly detailed drawing‑room where aristocrats and clergy gather for a night of conversation, candlelight and lacquered liquor. The scene hums with witty repartee as bearded priest Argillander, his young protégée Beata Kristiina, and a roster of officers and ladies in elaborate period dress exchange barbs about duty, propriety and the temptations of the evening. Their banter hints at hidden rivalries and the fragile balance between public honor and private desire.

As the first act unfolds, a young lieutenant arrives with a mysterious newspaper, its scandalous headlines promising to stir the already tense atmosphere. The characters’ clashing values—military rigor, clerical restraint, and the restless ambition of the nobility—create a lively tableau of early‑twentieth‑century Finnish society. Listeners will be drawn into a world where every toast, every whispered prayer, and every flickering candle seems to foreshadow deeper entanglements yet to emerge.