“What Has Been Written in My Flesh” – performance, 26.11

In the performance “What Has Been Written in My Flesh” the person on stage is not the main character. The main character is the Room: an ordinary flat in a block of flats. The person is at the mercy of the Room, and the Room has its own will and the power to direct events.

The Room demands servitude from its inhabitants and gives warmth, a sense of safety, a dry corner and a roof over one's head when the weather drives us in. In return we repair the roof, scrub floors, change wallpaper, fix a wobbly table leg, wash the laundry, beat the carpets, mop the stairwell, heat the stove and patch the bench. The drain is blocked again, dinner has to be cooked, the hob is filthy, there is no milk for coffee, and someone is hooting under the window again.

Directed by Marika Vaarik, Lauri Lest and Urmas Lüüs, the performance looks at the space between worlds. It is a theatre piece and a room installation, a collage of soundscapes and an anthropological observation. Ordinary moments and existential bursts emerge on stage; the focus is on reality, perhaps on hyperreality – everything that happens in every room and goes unnoticed.

Authors and performers: Marika Vaarik, Lauri Lest and Urmas Lüüs. Premiere: 5 September 2026, Ekspeditsiooni stuudio in Krulli house.

Time and place: 26 November 2026, 19:00, Ekspeditsiooni stuudio, Krulli 2b (Kopli 70a), Tallinn.