Help us save the NoName Theatre! 
After eighteen months of enforced closures and crippling restrictions, the Finnish government has still given very little financial or other support to amateur and semi-professional theatres – and even our theatre's application for corona support was denied. And as a small independent theatre, we receive no other government or municpal funding. Even though we have finally been able to launch the autumn season, socially distanced seating will continue to severely reduce our audience capacity and makes it almost impossible to cover the actual costs of staging productions: fewer seats means less income per show, but our fixed costs remain exactly the same.
Many independant theatres, like ours, are therefore still in dire straits. There is already a severe lack of theatre space in Helsinki – and in particular affordable space. As grants for cultural activities are difficult to acquire, many small groups and individuals simply cannot afford to rent a venue and are blocked from realising their cultural projects. The death of one of the few reaming affordable theatres would also mean the death of many performing arts projects for years to come.
Which is why we’re continuing our campaign to help the theatre survive until next year. The campaign will run from 16 September to 15 December 2021. All contributions will go in full to paying the rent on the theatre. So, if you value the rich world of fringe theatre in Finland, please check out the events and give something if you can!
To make a donation
- drop some cash in the donation box after enjoying one of our shows
- pay your chosen amount to our Nordea bank account FI64 1470 3000 2303 37 using the reference number 2021090
UPCOMING EVENTS
See our Autumn/Winter Programme 2021–2022 for more information about upcoming events. New events are added all the time, as they are confirmed.
SMALL COLLECTION (PIENKERÄYS) NO. RA/2021/1132
Organiser: The Finn-Brit Players Theatrical Society ry
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Purpose: To pay the rent on the NoName Theatre, so that the society can continue with its amateur theatrical activities and develop alternative types of activities, especially digital, during the coronavirus restrictions.
Jaakko Hutchings portrays Dr. Midgley in Orange Alert’s short play Global Burning. His character, however, is not entirely fictitious and is based on the very real Dr. Thomas Midgley, who is (half-) jokingly dubbed by the scientific community as “the single organism in Earth's history with the most detrimental impact on the atmosphere.”
Through the years, Dr. Midgley tirelessly continues to make the world a better place, with inventions and other personal contributions. For example, he was a fervent proponent for women to take up smoking.
“In recent decades, there has been a lot of news concerning armed conflicts in the world. We usually focus on the shocking numbers of human victims or on the destruction of material properties. But what about the environment? Do we imagine that our planet could be moaning from the intensity of the damage and from the pain and chaos that wars create? Who wins and who loses if trees are cut down and wildlife disappears due to armed conflicts?”
The first two nights of Orange Alert feature the story of Baida and her homeland. This is a story of how the victims of wars go beyond just the human kind, and of how those victims are so often forgotten.
