“It Is Not What It Looks Like”: Von Krahl Theatre

“It Is Not What It Looks Like” by Ingomar Vihmar.

This play is my declaration of love for theatre. I began writing it more than ten years ago, because I simply could not do otherwise. The passionate relationship between me and the theatre had to be explained. To myself. From the heart.

What is it about? Theatre. The meaning of theatre and its meaninglessness. (The meaning of life and its meaninglessness.) Actors. Playwrights. Directors. Ordinary people. God.

The story asks many questions and answers none of them. It is full of paradoxes, as theatre seems to me to be. A new method excludes the previous one, which in turn excludes the earlier one, and so on, until we return in a circle to the beginning. Nothing can be believed completely and nothing is certain. Every narrative gets mocked, and even the meanings of words are questioned.

Which is more real, life or theatre? When is an actor more real: when acting or when simply being? The text explores the actor’s fear: fear of failure, fear of making mistakes, fear of being humiliated. In short, the fear of being on stage. This play does not know what it wants, but it knows that it wants something!

What is real cannot be threatened. What is unreal does not exist.

Author and director: Ingomar Vihmar. Set designer: Kristel Zimmer. Composer: Hendrik Kaljujärv. Lighting: Priidu Adlas.

Cast: Juhan Ulfsak, Mari Abel, Ester Kuntu, Kristina Preimann, Karl Birnbaum, Markus Andreas Auling, Herman Pihlak and Edgar Vunš.

Premiere: 2 December 2026.

Approximate length: 2 hours, no interval.