Jack and Andrew are participants in a Back to Work scheme, and ground keepers at a soon to be disused sports ground. Neither Andrew, who has a mild disability, nor Jack, who does not have any greater...
Winner of the New Baltic Drama 2011 competition in Finland, These Little Town Blues Are Melting Away takes place somewhere on the coastline of the Baltic Sea, in a place that strictly speaking is not...
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 is a play about a theatre family who choose work over each other’s company. Sarkola’s play is a witty and intelligent look at the world of theatre, the acting profession, and the bur...
Jessika’s Cub is a comedy about Jessika’s family, her role as a wife and a mother and her panic attack-inducing longing for nature and to get away from the technological world of today. Jessika, he...
This children’s play explores gender roles and gender identities. Unbeknownst to the people of the world, space aliens from another dimension are responsible for giving children their sex, male or fem...
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 is a fable for adults about the aspiration towards goodness. There are a brother and a sister who won’t leave their home because they are caring for their disabled brother. The sister...
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...
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...
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...
Helvetin perhe (Family from hell) is an intense, abstract, funny, true, recognisable, realistic yet merciful play about family, about the human struggle to move from symbiosis towards being a separate...
A mystic wanderer on an endless beach in remote Iceland stumbles upon a norwegian businessman about to jump off a high cliff. They leave together in an old Volvo. On the way they pick up a hitch-hikin...
Leea Klemola’s latest piece Vaimoni, Casanova ("Casanova, my wife" at the Kuopio City Theatre in 2016) is shamelessly over-the-top, in true Klemola style. It weaves together themes fro...
”Very harsh, I’m telling you, to an eye that’s looked out of these windows all its life.” A Little Money is Sirkku Peltola’s story about Jason, a man who has lived his...
“We’ve come a long way in many things. But in the course of things, people have often been passed over without consideration. Or with very little consideration.” When a person los...
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...
The main character of Milja Sarkola’s play Something Different is a Woman, a theatre director who is working on a play featuring material from her personal sexual history. The Woman’s brot...
How many of us can say they have truly been given unconditional love in their lives? And if you’re an ambitious and career-oriented sort of person, is that something you’d have time to pur...
Mother (Homoäiti) is a monologue about becoming a parent, about eternal parenthood and about ageing. It is about the realisation that our own parents are just as helpless as we are and about the proce...
Eriopis - Medea’s Daughter Survivor Tells All is a play by E.L. Karhu which explores the potential world and story of Medea’s daughter, Eriopis, if her life were to take place in modern-day Finland ru...