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
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
"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
Gramps and Gramma live on a farm, in a woodland house. One day Gramps brings home a retired skeleton. This skeleton has never belonged to a human. Instead it has served as a plastic model for teaching anatomy at school. Tired, tattered and retired it arrives in Gramp’s and Gramma’s house where they both have spent all their life. Here the Skeleton is named Juhan and begins to participate in Gramp’s and Gramma’s everyday activities, bringing joy, misunderstandings, a lot of warmth to it, and helping to sort out Gramp’s and Gramma’s relationship matters.
Age: 6+
Duration: 50min / Act 1
Dramatization: Janis Znotins
Premiere: 02.03.2023.
A play with no words!
CREATIVE TEAM
Director: Janis Znotins
Stage artist: Pamela Butane
Music: Janis Znotins
Lighting artist: Arta Kronberga
Cast: Rūta Dislere
Anrijs Sirmais
Saturday, November 4th at 11:00 in Valga Culture Center, oval hall
The performance is based on Oscar Wilde’s world-famous short story “The Canterville Ghost”. It is the result of a collaboration between two young talented creators – Teele Uustani and Sandra Lange.
The production uses puppetry as well as object theater. It is intended for young audiences that appreciate a mixture of spooky thrills and humor.
The spirit of Lord Canterville had a brilliant career. This ghost has been successful at terrorizing the occupants of his castle for centuries. Until one day he suffers a setback. Colliding with the modern world, the ghost becomes acquainted with a family that absolutely fails to not notice him. The family in fact does not notice anyone or anything except their gadgets. Adding insult to injury, when this newly arrived family finally becomes aware fo the ghost’s existence, he find out that has no effect on them. On the contrary, the spirit of Lord Canterville is now on the receiving end of terror, He is the one being bullied. The ghost resents the unbearable circumstances and flees onto the basement of the castle, where he tries unsuccessfully to find some peace. At this point the ghost has nothing to lose. He resorts to the most terrible actions and terrifying stunts, but he has lost his touch and everything goes awry. In the end, the spectator must choose for herself whether to join those who bully the ghost or to empathize with him.
The Ghost - Sandra Lange
Director - Teele Uustani and Sandra Lange
Music - Juhan Vihterpalu
Light Engineer - Rene Topolev
Set and costume design - Sandra Lange
Playright - Vahur Keller
Make-up artist - Aimi Etverk
Children voices - Sander Tammeleht and Hannes Jõema (Liivaku kindergarten)
Graphic design - Britt Urbla Keller
Production Manager - Jane Oksa
Age 7+
Performance duration: 45 minutes
Thursday, November 2nd at 11:00 & Friday, November 3rd at 11:00 in Valga Culture Center, oval hall
