New Plays from Finland

Dis – Queen Christina speaks by a horse

Queen Christina of Sweden was a rather unusual monarch for her time; not only did she pursue traditionally ”male” interests, but also suddenly abdicated her throne in 1654 and converted to Catholicism...

In Lammassaari – A Comedy About Manners

Lammassaaressa – komedia käyttäytymissäännöistä is an adaptation of an earlier play text by Tuomas Timonen. Timonen re-worked the play to suit a touring production for children by the theatre group TO...

Bolla

Bolla is based on a novel of the same name by Pajtim Statovci. Statovci emerged in 2014 when his debut novel, My Cat Yugoslavia (English translation 2017), was acclaimed in Finland and later internati...

The Blazing Time – A Portrait of Two Women in a Room

Sofia Aminoff wrote Den lysande tiden – porträtt av två kvinnor i ett rum (unofficial translation: The Blazing Time – A Portrait of Two Women in a Room) as part of the UNO project for new Finnish dram...

The Docents

Juha Jokela’s Dosentit (The Docents, unofficial translation) explores conflicts in the academic world on many levels. The central character is Johanna Virtanen, whose research on the work environment...

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...

Cutting a Cake

Cutting a Cake - A play about justice in six uneven slices (Att dela en kaka - sex olika stora bitar om rättvisa) is an exploration in justice and injustice. The play ponders who has the right to dete...

My Capital

My Capital (Pääomani) is a contemporary drama based on Milja Sarkola’s novel by the same name which deals with a large taboo in Finnish society: wealth inequality and money. However, it does not seek...

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New Plays from Finland

Dis – Queen Christina speaks by a horse

In Lammassaari – A Comedy About Manners

Bolla

The Blazing Time – A Portrait of Two Women in a Room

The Docents

Alina

Cutting a Cake

My Capital

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