New Plays from Finland

At TINFO, we connect you with the exciting, ambitious, unusual theatre being made in Finland today. Browse our featured plays by keyword, explore the synopses and find out more about the playwrights. Contact details for the rights holders are also provided.

The Grapes of Reason

Have kids early, do not take more than one slice of cake, and if you masturbate, at least be ashamed! These rules embedded into most of us, especially women, at a very young age form an integral part...

sky every day

A cloudless blue sky, a child running on the crystal-like sand, and a dead body in Room 303. Hidden behind the Do not disturb-sign, the slowly rotting corpse is not the only dead th...

These Little Town Blues Are Melting Away

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...

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

Sofia Aminoff wrote The Blazing Time – A Portrait of Two Women in a Room* (orig. Den lysande tiden – porträtt av två kvinnor i ett rum) as part of the UNO project for new Finnish drama in 20...

The Orchestra: A Study in Solidarity

The Orchestra: A Study in Solidarity (Orkesteri – The Everlast. Tutkielma solidaarisuudesta) is a sister play to Pitch (Kenttä). The play asks the question of whether communality is possible....

The Phantom of Normality

“I have just one wish in life. And that is that I could be ordinary, just a normal person. And that my family would be ordinary too, just a normal family. That we wouldn’t stand out from the crowd, th...

Specs and Normals

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...

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...

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