Winner of the New Baltic Drama 2011 competition in Finland, These Little Town Blues Are Melting Away (Lauluja harmaan meren laidalta) takes place somewhere on the coastline of the Baltic Sea, in...
American jazz musician Billy Tipton (1914-1989) was born and raised as Dorothy. As the young girl found it impossible to find work because of her gender, she decided to become a man. Dorothy, now call...
The Family Member (Perheenjäsen) is a play about a theatre family who choose work over each other’s company. Milja Sarkola’s play is a witty and intelligent look at the world of theatre, the acti...
Superswitcher (Taikanaksutin) is a children’s play that explores gender roles and gender identities. Unbeknownst to the people of the World, space aliens from another dimension are responsible for giv...
Megan is a 13-year-old American girl whose life involves the typical teenage drama of friends and boy crushes. Unfortunately she also has an attention deficit disorder an aggressive mood swings. Megan...
To be Human (Toisen ääni) is a fable for adults about the aspiration towards goodness. In the play there is a brother and a sister both of whom will not refuse to leave their home because they ar...
Bride of Christ is play in which each character searches for inner peace and justification for their own views on Christianity’s complex relationship with gender and sexuality. Marion is about to be m...
Winner of the 2012 Lea Award for the best Finnish play of the year. Three women: a mother, daughter and grandmother. When the mother disappears, the daughter is left to take care of her suddenly demen...
Once upon a time there was a cold country where no one respected beauty and love was deemed totally worthless. The only thing worshipped was price tags and only that which was useful was considered go...
Frau Höss and Friends is based on the real lives of wives of powerful Nazi officers. What part did these loyal hausfraus play in the Third Reich? How did they use their power and influence? Or were th...
This moving drama of people caught in the turmoil of political power-play paints a shattering picture of Estonia in the twentieth century. The tale traces two phases of oppression: the period of Germa...
The most tender and poetic of Juha Jokela’s plays, The Patriarch premiered on the main stage of the Finnish National Theatre in the autumn of 2012. Written for the theatre’s 140-year anniversary, the...
Eleven-year-old Henry comes from a good home. His parents are academic, highly educated, intelligent, progressive people, and there shouldn’t be any cause for concern. But Henry shocks his teachers by...
A woman sits alone in a restaurant. Images flash in front of her eyes. Her whole life she has wanted to be something else: a sweet, pure little girl, a sexy bombshell, an attractive wife. Someone wort...
Specs and Normals * (Erkat ja tavikset) is the story of Olavi, a special needs kid who is trying to find his place in a regular class and of Roosa; a girl who has already given up on her ed...
Milja Sarkola’s play follows one woman’s life from childhood to adulthood, limiting the perspective to feeling like an outsider, sensations of loneliness and shame, and the difficulty of c...