UNFINISHED BUSINESS

[ Back ] A macabre comedy in two acts by Jussi Wahlgren (copyright)
ANITA is a clairvoyant who runs a small city hotel with her son, JAN, who is celebratinh his 20th
 birthday. As a B.D-present, ANITA has promised to finally reveal to JAN who his real father is. In the 
meantime, JAN has always enjoyed the option of being able to imagine his father in ideal terms: To whit, 
he has a picture of Big-Arnold Schwartzenegger on the wall, who he refers to as father. ANITA's mother 
ELENA, though technically an angel, is anything but an angel in her behaviour. She is ANITA's clairvoyant
 connection to the other side and only ANITA can hear her hectoring banter. Meanwhile, in another town, 
ANITA's long lost teenage lover, JOHAN - or The Smootcher, as he was then known - kills himself with an 
overdose of placebos and ends up on the other side with ELENA, with whom he never got on. In fact, as it 
is later revealed, it was ELENA who fouled up ANITA's and The Smootcher's excellent chance og making a 
match.

The children of these two old lovers, ANITA's son JAN, and MARY-ANNE, the daughter of The Smootcher
 who has arrived to try and sell a novel, meet and fall in love. JAN's long-anticipated meeting with his real 
father turns sour, as he is revealed to be the husband of ANITA's friend EVA, who has arrived 
unexpectedly (to find out from a clairvoyant if his husband has another woman!) In the end JAN and 
MARY-ANNE decide to get married, JOHAN is called back to life, due to a bureaucratic foul-up in heaven
and is thereby free to resume his interupted affair with ANITA (after 25 years), and ELENA gets her permit 
to move on to Paradise...

4f and 3m roles, lobby of small provincial hotel (ONE SET), Finland, 2hrs (one int.)