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FACE ON THE COVER: EMILIA PÖYHÖNEN

For playwright, translator and dramaturge Emilia Pöyhönen, a good play is like poetry on the stage. If needed, her works do not shy away from stretching the definition of what plays can be like. And for Pöyhönen, plays can be anything, bringing fresh perspectives onto the stage.

Pöyhönen's translated plays include Valitut-triptyykki (available in German as Die Auserwählten - Triptychon) and Kuokkavieraat (available in English as The Gate-Crashers). Read more... Finnish Playwrights »

FIND OF THE WEEK: POPULAARIMUSIIKKIA VITTULANJÄNKÄLTÄ

Populaarimusiikkia Vittulanjänkältä is Ilpo Tuomarila's stage adaptation of Mikael Niemi's novel Popular music from Vittula. It is a colourful tale of the childhood years of two friends, Matti and Niila, taking place in the village of Pajala in the Swedish part of the Torne Valley which separates Finland and Sweden.

Children of Pajala learn very early on what their place in this world is. They are not quite Finnish, neither Swedish, they have no table manners and don't know how to converse; they wear a cap indoors, history books don't mention them, and they certainly don't know how to wrap a present. In short, they are nothing, and their only hope for becoming something is to move south. But then the two boys discover music, rock and roll, the Beatles.

Populaarimusiikkia Vittulanjänkältä has been translated into German as Populärmusik aus Vittula.

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