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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
The Arrow Stoat (Nuolikärppä) is a fairytale that has something to offer for adults and children alike. Our main character is the Arrow Stoat, the hero of Swampland, who is given a task by the ki...
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...
A married couple has been partying and brought a young girl home with them. During the night the girl overdoses and the couple has to decide what to do. (source: Nordic Drama Corner)