A young person must suddenly cope with a situation where their mother can no longer see a way to go on with her life. Our protagonist starts writing down things that are worth living for, hoping it might help their mother feel better:
Friday, November 3rd at 13:00 & 16:00 in Valga Culture Center, grand hall
"Tallinn Bears" is a musical based of libretto by Lauris Gundarsi and music and lyrics by Siim Aimla. The musical tells a story about bear family, who is forced to leave their home as the city is expanding to forest. Cornered animals behave unpredictably, and so do people when bears appear on the urban landscape.
Young bear Aka has a plan to attack the city, to scare and to cause chaos in order to make clear to the people living in the city that bears has been living in forests way before the city was established and so bears have also rights to their home like people have.
During the bears' invasion, a ten-year-old girl, Hele, is taken from the city. Imprisoned in a cave among bears, she turns out to be the first person to be able to communicate with bears. Hele understands that in order to live side by side and be together we have to listen to each other, understand and try to find common solutions.
The bear family gives an oppurtunity to young and older spectator to identify themselves with characters on the stage and to live along to problems that seem impossible to solve at first. The musical reflects our attitude towards family, strangers and the nature around us, talking about staying together in difficult circumstances and about humanity even if the main characters are bears.
Author and director: Lauris Gundars
Music and lyrics: Siim Aimla
Artist: Inga Vares
Choreograph: Marge Ehrenbusch
Lighting designer: Priidu Adlas
Poster art: Joonas Sildre
Cast: Haide Männamäe, Grete Konksi, Maarja Tammemägi, Stefan Hein,
Rauno Kaibiainen, Toomas Tross
Duration: 2 h 10 min
On Saturday, 04.11 at 13.00 in Valga Culture Center, grand hall
Thursday, November 2nd at 11:00 & Friday, November 3rd at 11:00 in Valga Culture Center, oval hall
What happens when bullying is concealed? When someone looks at you in a bad way, giving you a dirty look again and again when no one sees them? What happens when things go too far and splits the group of friends? What happens if a video is leaked, and someone ends up hitting someone?
Being subjected to "dirty looks" can be experienced as threatening, bullying and exclusionary and can quickly form the basis for larger conflicts. And when good girls become warriors with no inhibitions, the conflict can grow completely out of control...
BLIKK is a performance for youth and young adults which brings dirty looks, bullying, girl gangs and violence to the stage. Only girls participate in this explosive and dramatic play that punches the audience right in the gut.
Through her work with genres such as street theatre, the Norwegian-Turkish director Mine Nilay Yalcin has been concerned with accessibility, diversity and representation in the performing arts.
Performance is in English.
In collaboration with Kloden theater and SPKRBOX
Please note that the performance contains strong language and depictions of violence.
Recommended age 13+
Contributors:
Script, director, producer: Mine Nilay Yalcin
Translated by Lise Lærdal Bryn
Costume design: Synne Reichelt Føreland
Dramaturgy: Christine Helland
Lighting design: Clement Irbil
Technical manager: Kai Luni Fjell
Cast: Hina Zaidi, Madeleine F. Røseth, Julia Sørensen, Amalie Hyun Ju Eggen, Lisa Birkenes Thun