“What Has Been Written in My Flesh”: performance in a room at Krulli house

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

The Room demands servitude from its inhabitants, offering in return home warmth, a sense of safety, a dry place and a roof over your head when the bad weather pulls you in. In return you mend the roof, scrub the floors, change the wallpaper, fix the wobbly table leg, wash the laundry, beat the carpets, bleed the radiators, sweep the stairwell, heat the stove, patch the table cloth. The drain in the bathroom is blocked again, you should probably cook something, the stove is so dirty, there’s no milk for coffee, you have to go to the shop afterwards, and by morning there’s sausage for the bread too. Who is honking under the window again…

Directed by Marika Vaarik, Lauri Lest and Urmas Lüüs, the piece looks between worlds. It is part theatre performance, part room installation, a collage of soundscapes and an anthropological observation. Everyday moments and existential bursts are born on stage, focusing on reality, perhaps hyper-reality, everything that happens in every room and goes unnoticed.

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

Time and place: 28 November 2026, 19:00, Ekspeditsiooni studio, Krulli 2b (Kopli 70a), Tallinn.