New Plays from Finland

At TINFO, we connect you with Finland's most exciting and distinctive contemporary theatre makers. Use our database to search featured plays by keyword, read synopses, and discover more about the playwrights. Contact details for the rights holders are provided for each play.

Beginning Middle End

"Theatre is bad", proclaims the play Beginning Middle End. Music and literature and culture in general are also bad, but theatre in particular is typically made by heterosexuals and is just “boring”.&...

Reikäleipä ('hole bread')

At the beginning of the play, the Kotala family have returned from a begging trip to Romania and are back at their decaying cottage. Surprisingly, they find a familiar visitor in the sauna, the childr...

Korhonen’s Portrait

Written by Jonnakaisa Risto as well as performed and puppeteered by her, the tragicomedy Korhonen's Portrait. A Grotesque, Apocalyptic Dystopia and a Really Great Love Story explores through sati...

Hirvimetsä ('elk hunting')

A father persuades his son to join him on a hunting trip. As they wander through the woods, they come face to face with each other – and themselves. The father, now realizing time is short, w...

The Lovely Daughter Erika – Notes on a Name

Playwright and dramaturge Emil Santtu Uuttu's play, The Lovely Daughter Erika – Notes on a Name, is a complex tapestry that explores memory and the ethics of historical research in the context of tr...

Alina

Alina is a story about unconditional familial love in the face of addiction. Specifically, it is a story about a brother and sister, Emil and Alina, and the way in which Emil’s substa...

Medusa's Room

Medusa’s Room is a contemporary drama that serves as a commentary on what it is to be a woman and what it is to grow up into a woman amidst our male normative culture. At its core, Medusa’s Room is a...

Hornblende

Hornblende is a dark and lustrous mineral found in metamorphic rocks: the little piece of shine on a granite gravestone. The relationship between joy and sadness is like that of granite and hornblende...

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