Drama at the Gothenburg Book Fair
The largest cultural event in the Nordics – the Gothenburg Book Fair – will spotlight drama as its main theme in September 2025.
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Shaking it Up: On Toppling Traditions
Playwright and director Arni Rajamäki emerged onto the Finnish theatre scene with their Beginning Middle End project. Rajamäki’s practice exposes Finnish theatrical rules and conventions, while experimenting with setting the dramatic text free from the physical presence of the actor.
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Turning to Others
Maria Säkö travelled with performance group Oblivia and recorded her thoughts on the group’s first work in a series that explores the traces of a human-centric era.
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The Natural World is Vulnerable – That’s the Story We Need to Tell
Playwright Pipsa Lonka’s new drama Peter lived in a house – a dolphin dot-to-dot is a philosophical enquiry into the darker side of our love for animals.
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Barentsburg
In his short story playwright Mikhail Durnenkov considers the similarities between the Soviet era and the present day and how totalitarianism spells peril for human beings and the natural world alike.
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25 New Plays From the World
The World on Stage project database has 25 new entries from around the world.
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Durational Abundance and the Notion of Art as Event
Hanna Helavuori on the practices of six Finnish artists and artistic collectives.
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20 145
performances
268
companies
3 477 520
spectators
133 833 274 €
state subsidy
90 040 725 €
own income
Source: The Finnish Performing Arts Statistics for year 2023. Publisher: Theatre Info Finland TINFO
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