All performances

Gob Squad: Gob Squad's Kitchen

Gob Squad grabs Andy Warhol’s hand and takes a tour around New York’s underground movie studios – back where everything started in 1965 when pop-culture, stardom, feminism, drugs and psychedelic lights broke free.

Eva Meyer-Keller & Sybille Müller: Building After Catastrophes

“It is our desire to make children aware that little – even delicate – deeds can have big effects.”

TTT Theatre in Tampere & Lahti City Theatre: Villisorsa

Which stages in our life span provide protection to us, which ones are destructive?

Ryhmäteatteri: Jatkuvaa kasvua

”Perpetual Growth is an amazing and eventful story about how a regular family man and a sound, meat-and-potatoes engineer Antero Alapylpyrä loses his job, starts his own business and drives the entire world economics into an unforeseen holy mess.”

The Finnish National Theatre: HOMO! – Outojen ooppera

HOMO! is an anarchistic, audacious and energetic music spectacle. It screams SEE ME! boisterously, without shame or restraint and lets the reverberations crumble down all barriers.

Ryhmäteatteri: Jatkuvaa kasvua

”Perpetual Growth is an amazing and eventful story about how a regular family man and a sound, meat-and-potatoes engineer Antero Alapylpyrä loses his job, starts his own business and drives the entire world economics into an unforeseen holy mess.”

Klockriketeatern: Morbror Vanja

After Anna Karenina, Director Andriy Zoldak has taken Chekhov’s love-thirsty characters who are mourning their wasted lives in his powerful grasp. The outcome is a magnificent, uncompromising Uncle Vanya.

Schaubühne Berlin: The Talented Mr. Ripley

A New York shipping magnate Mr. Greenleaf’s son Dickie is idling in Italy and has become rather fond of the good life and the beautiful women he is enjoying there. Greenleaf summons the young and shy Mr. Ripley to go fetch the reckless boy home.

Kajaani City Theatre: Paha lapsi

Do you really remember what it felt like to be a child?

Schaubühne Berlin: The Talented Mr. Ripley

A New York shipping magnate Mr. Greenleaf’s son Dickie is idling in Italy and has become rather fond of the good life and the beautiful women he is enjoying there. Greenleaf summons the young and shy Mr. Ripley to go fetch the reckless boy home.

Klockriketeatern: Morbror Vanja

After Anna Karenina, Director Andriy Zoldak has taken Chekhov’s love-thirsty characters who are mourning their wasted lives in his powerful grasp. The outcome is a magnificent, uncompromising Uncle Vanya.

Teatteri Telakka / Jyväskylä City Theatre & Teak & Taik : Two Monologues

Actor Tanjalotta Räikkä’s Jubilee Performance Infiltrating Intolerance & Banging on Barricades marks her 30-year acting career. Unquestionably, the performance mulls over actorship, but

Kajaani City Theatre: Paha lapsi

Do you really remember what it felt like to be a child?

Lone Twin: Nine Years

Nine Years is a pricelessly funny and good-humored performance from the early years of the Lone Twin Performance Duet.

Kuopio City Theatre: Jessikan pentu

Jessica’s Pup returns Homo Sapiens back to nature – people grow tails and are proud of their fur.

Kotka City Theatre: Tsaarin kakarat

The bold and skilful Tsar’s Brats takes on a topic significant both in the local and national context: the relationship between the Finns and the Russians. What does this ambiguous and contradictory bond tell about us? From where does this covert hatred towards the Russians stem from?

Kuopio City Theatre: Jessikan pentu

Jessica’s Pup returns Homo Sapiens back to nature – people grow tails and are proud of their fur.

Schaubühne Berlin: The Talented Mr. Ripley

A New York shipping magnate Mr. Greenleaf’s son Dickie is idling in Italy and has become rather fond of the good life and the beautiful women he is enjoying there. Greenleaf summons the young and shy Mr. Ripley to go fetch the reckless boy home.

Kokkola City Theatre & Ruska Ensable: Viimeinen aamutähti

Squeezed in between the vast oil fields of Siberia, a fenno-ugrian Khanty people try to keep on living their life. The performance Last Morning Star gives them back their long lost voice - and by doing so, creates a historic theatre accomplishment.

Smeds Ensemble & Von Krahl Teater: 12Karamazovia

The fierce and undefeatable energy which keeps flowing throughout this performance makes one fear that the walls will simply explode.

Q-teatteri: Broken Heart Story

Broken Heart Story is a stylish demonstration of skill and talent of young theatre makers. It is a fascinating, powerfully distinctive entity of art work which reflects identity: artistry and womanhood.

Toneelgroep Amsterdam: Husbands

An audacious and deeply humane interpretation of John Cassavetes’ classic movie of the same name! Husbands is today’s life lesson à la Ivo van Hove.

Kotka City Theatre: Tsaarin kakarat

The bold and skilful Tsar’s Brats takes on a topic significant both in the local and national context: the relationship between the Finns and the Russians. What does this ambiguous and contradictory bond tell about us? From where does this covert hatred towards the Russians stem from?

Toneelgroep Amsterdam: Husbands

An audacious and deeply humane interpretation of John Cassavetes’ classic movie of the same name! Husbands is today’s life lesson à la Ivo van Hove.

Kokkola City Theatre & Ruska Ensable: Viimeinen aamutähti

Squeezed in between the vast oil fields of Siberia, a fenno-ugrian Khanty people try to keep on living their life. The performance Last Morning Star gives them back their long lost voice - and by doing so, creates a historic theatre accomplishment.

Q-teatteri: Broken Heart Story

Broken Heart Story is a stylish demonstration of skill and talent of young theatre makers. It is a fascinating, powerfully distinctive entity of art work which reflects identity: artistry and womanhood.

Smeds Ensemble & Von Krahl Teater: 12Karamazovia

The fierce and undefeatable energy which keeps flowing throughout this performance makes one fear that the walls will simply explode.

Taikateatteri 13: The Outsider

A weird creature drops down onto the stage straight from space. It starts carefully investigating things and objects around it; this is an outsider who encounters for the first time all the different phenomena we take for granted.

Lietuvos nacionalinis dramos teatras: Chaosas

The Russian-born director Yana Ross studied in the USA and finally settled in Lithuania. Her powerful and original interpretation of Mika Myllyaho’s play Chaos is a study of today’s individuals who seem to have everything under control. In reality, they are only a step away from a total…Read more »

Totem-teatteri: Minä olen kuningas!

The cross-disciplinary chidren’s theatre performance I Am King! is based loosely on Shakespeare’s Macbeth. The skillfully musical and dancical production also ingeniously uses the means of object theatre.

Teatteri Takomo: Perheenjäsen

This play could take place in any family; it is so skilfully based on a range of individual and collective experiences. The Family Member, written and directed by Milja Sarkola, is “a performance that gives a welcome boost to theatre art.” (Maria Säkö; Tulva.fi)

Taikateatteri 13: The Outsider

A weird creature drops down onto the stage straight from space. It starts carefully investigating things and objects around it; this is an outsider who encounters for the first time all the different phenomena we take for granted.