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...
The Family Member (Perheenjäsen) is a play about a theatre family who choose work over each other’s company. Milja Sarkola’s play is a witty and intelligent look at the world of theatre, the acti...
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...
To be Human (Toisen ääni) is a fable for adults about the aspiration towards goodness. In the play there is a brother and a sister both of whom will not refuse to leave their home because they ar...
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...
Winner of the 2012 Lea Award for the best Finnish play of the year. Three women: a mother, daughter and grandmother. When the mother disappears, the daughter is left to take care of her suddenly demen...
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...
Elena doesn’t have any reason to be feeling down. But when you’re feeling down, the causes aren’t always obvious, especially if you’re a lonely teenager who’s shy about her looks. Running and throwing...
“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...