Nuutrum Theatre performance “Night Queen”

NIGHT QUEEN

Author: Piret Jaaks

Director: Jaanus Nuutre

Artist: Jana Wolke

Sound artist: Tobias Tammearu

Light artist: Margus Ruhno

Stage manager: Inge Kaseleht

Cast: Ülle Lichtfeldt (Rakvere Theatre), Miika Pihlak, Jaanis Valk (Tammsaare Theatre)

Piret Jaaks’s play “Night Queen” is a tense story about the encounter of two very different people. Elli, who was once a successful singer at a famous opera house, has to come to terms with life in Estonia after a tragic chain of events, and is every day a witness to her own inevitable decline. The gripping events begin when the young and beautiful social worker Jakob appears on Elli’s doorstep. His mysterious role is to play a man called the Memory Man. Who is he? What does he want, and what part does he have to play in Elli’s life? The answers may be surprising.

Piret Jaaks’s play speaks, at once humorously and tragically, through the stories of two very different lives, about the clash of feelings, thoughts and understandings, about the shock of the “best before” fear, and about what remains of us from the moment we are no longer here.

Running time 2 h 20 min, with one interval.

The theatre café is open before the performance and during the interval.

Latecomers are not admitted to the hall.