Queers on Finnish-Swedish stages!

What are queer performing arts? What does it look like on Finnish-Swedish stages? In honour of queer history month, we’ve asked Willjam Tigerstedt to write about queerness on stage.

The Death of the Dramatist

A dialogue between dramatists Sinna Virtanen and Isabel Cruz Liljegren.

The inherited roles that drive us cuckoo

Rosanna Fellman writes about alienation, national identity, and Jaha Koo’s Cuckoo.

Brecht on Bromarvgatan – preliminary reflections on She She Pop’s Besessen

Critic Valter Sandell examines She She Pop’s Besessen and its theme of ownership. Can theater shine light on phenomena such as unpaid work, economy of promises, and complex forms of exploitation in ways that create space for mutual action towards change?

Pleasure as Action

What does pleasure mean for us? Can we feel it when we create something? Are we allowed to?

A Utopia on the Independent Field of Performing Arts

HTT skrift is Hangö Teaterträff’s online publication. In 2021, HTT skrift shifts its focus to texts that address the independent field’s situation that has been worsened by Covid-19 and government actions. It gives voice to various people and points of view, and the themes related to the situation are examined through different job roles and positions. The series begins with a utopia on what the field of Performing Arts should look like in the future, as written by the Hangö Teaterträff team.