http://www.finnishplays.com/ News, features and latest additions http://www.finnishplays.com/index.php?view=news&id=72 We are in the process of making changes to Finnishplays.com. During this time, we will not be updating the news section. However, new translations will continue to be added to Finnishplays.com. 2011-11-15T10:00:00+03:00 http://www.finnishplays.com/index.php?view=newList&id=643 French. Ville-Sympa est une commune o l on organise d j depuis vingt ans l v nement Voulez-vous vous marier Dans cet v nement organis chaque ann e par la soci t villageoise un couple se gagne un mariage en public... 2011-11-08T01:00:00Z http://www.finnishplays.com/index.php?view=newList&id=642 English - 7 women, 13 men - t. Kristian London - 2011. The play takes place somewhere on the coastline of the Baltic Sea in a place that strictly speaking is not even a village Water is rising slowly really slowly without forming an actual threat although the danger of flooding is... 2011-10-27T01:00:00Z http://www.finnishplays.com/index.php?view=news&id=71 Annina Enckell's new play about the philanthropist Aurora Karamzina premieres at the Swedish Theatre of Helsinki on September 28, 2011. 2011-09-28T18:00:00+03:00 http://www.finnishplays.com/index.php?view=news&id=70 ("Play for me Billy") A play based on the life of American jazz musician Billy Tipton (1914-1989). Billy grew up as Dorothy, but at the age of 19 she put on a man's suit and lived ever since as a man. S/he became a respected jazz musician who had many beautiful female friends. 2011-09-22T18:00:00+03:00 http://www.finnishplays.com/index.php?view=news&id=69 ("GAY!") Pirkko Saisio's play is an unscrupulous opera and a hot-blooded cantata about an age when the church ruptured, the country was divided into two, and gays stopped being nice. 2011-09-21T18:00:00+03:00 http://www.finnishplays.com/index.php?view=news&id=68 Sirkku Peltola's Pieni raha ("A Little Money") premieres at Ugala Teater in Estonia. 2011-09-16T10:00:00+03:00 http://www.finnishplays.com/index.php?view=news&id=67 (lit. "Northwest Passage") Veera Tyhtilä's new play asks what drives people to search, explore and confront the dangers of doing so? We all have our inner expeditions, but also our glaciers. Is there such ice that should never be allowed to melt? 2011-09-15T18:00:00+03:00 http://www.finnishplays.com/index.php?view=news&id=66 Ilpo Tuomarila's new musical on the life and music of Katri Helena, one of the most successful Finnish singers of all time. 2011-08-25T18:00:00+03:00 http://www.finnishplays.com/index.php?view=news&id=65 (lit. "Wrong colour") Ari Kallio's historically inspired play about the building of a church designed by the world famous architect Alvar Aalto. 2011-08-10T12:00:00+03:00 http://www.finnishplays.com/index.php?view=newList&id=641 English - 6 women, 9 men - t. Eva Buchwald - 2011. In this third part of the popular and critically acclaimed i Finnhorse i trilogy see also i The Finnhorse i and i Happy to Stand i Sirkku Peltola takes the Kotala family into a more spacious place -- under the... 2011-07-26T01:00:00Z http://www.finnishplays.com/index.php?view=newList&id=640 French - 1 woman, 10 men - t. Alexandre Drouet - 2010. Dans cette oeuvre Jari Juutinen s est inspir de l histoire d Adolf Eichmann le criminel nazi dont nous avons en m moire le proc s le jugement et l ex cution en Isra l apr s une longue traque... 2011-07-15T01:00:00Z http://www.finnishplays.com/index.php?view=news&id=64 (lit. "Czar's brats") A play about Russian influence in Kotka, Finland -- moving freely in space and time. 2011-04-13T01:00:00+03:00 http://www.finnishplays.com/index.php?view=newList&id=639 Russian - 3 women, 2 men - t. Anna Sidorova - 2005. Seppo is a middle-aged man whose life appears to be in order He is a successful lawyer with enough wealth to make life easy has been married for a long time with his wife Tuula and his son Marko is... 2011-04-11T01:00:00Z http://www.finnishplays.com/index.php?view=news&id=63 (lit. "Cinderella - ash and feathers") Pipsa Lonka's poetic new rendition of the fable of Cinderella. 2011-04-09T01:00:00+03:00 http://www.finnishplays.com/index.php?view=newList&id=638 Czech - 1 woman, 3 men - t. Kaisa El Ramly - 2010. A comedy about ice-hockey and climate change... 2011-03-31T01:00:00Z http://www.finnishplays.com/index.php?view=newList&id=637 French. Avec sa pi ce Les Ailes de Hugo Simberg le metteur en sc ne et sc nariste finlandais Ville Kurki n en r ssuscite l minent peintre finlandais Hugo Simberg - et ses oeuvres L artiste y tient une conversation... 2011-03-30T01:00:00Z http://www.finnishplays.com/index.php?view=newList&id=636 English - 2 women, 4 men - t. Otso Vainio - 2011. The different games and tactics of this story condense into a solitary word Confidence Kara a year old economist is teaching University undergraduates while preparing to write a doctoral thesis of her own For Kara rationality is a gratifying guideline... 2011-02-10T01:00:00Z http://www.finnishplays.com/index.php?view=newList&id=321 Hungarian. Before taking his own life a middle-aged business man has sent out invitations to the five women that had been closest to him They are to be the persons present at his funeral held in a small chapel The five... 2011-01-28T01:00:00Z http://www.finnishplays.com/index.php?view=newList&id=633 Estonian - 3 women, 3 men - t. Ülev Aaloe - 2010. The play s protagonist Jason is a man in his fifties and someone we could in medical terms call educationally handicapped His inner life is still balanced happy slow and child-like Jason has a very caring mother without whom he... 2011-01-11T01:00:00Z http://www.finnishplays.com/index.php?view=feature&id=6 b Finnish Drama Past and Present An Overview b br by Katri Tanskanen br br Theatre theorist Katri Tanskanen looks at the past and the present of Finnish drama a href quot http www finnishplays com index php id quot Read article a br br br b The Finnish Play Today b br by Satu Rasila br br quot A... 2010-04-25T13:00:00+03:00