LYT - The Northernmost Student Theatre of Finland
The Student Theatre of Lapland was founded 1980 in Rovaniemi, Finland. After many years ”on the road” we finally got the brilliant theatre building Wiljami in year 1992. Wiljami is an ex-cinematheatre with lot's of space – both to the audience with almost 200 seats and our theater activist to perform.
We are an amateur theatre, which means we don’t have any paid staff. We don’t seek economical advantage and the theatre lives mostly from our ticket sales profit and sometime sponsors. Income from the plays go to our next productions and maintenance. We have 3 – 5 plays per year, with one or two bigger projects. Sometimes we even have travelling shows!
Most of our members are students but we still have a good variety of people (anyone over 18 is welcome to apply). Our members don’t (usually) have any higher theatre education, and we learn by working together, trying new things – and sometime we get to pick up new skills from professionals through collaborations and courses. Many of our previous members have made theatre their profession: they work as actors, directors and technicians in several city theatres in Finland.
Want to apply?
We have entrance exams every year during September, where people have a chance to apply for any position - which are of course determined in every production separately! If you are interested, follow our social medias to get notified of the exams!
Note that since we are an amateur threatre and the theatre doesn’t have official personnel, we do not have the possibility for language training or tutoring.