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wednesday
LAGLE
It’s six o’clock. The workday has ended, the lectures are over. I’m a
little tired. Why should I go to the theatre? Because Lauri Lagle has
directed two plays thus far at NO99 Theatre. (Untitled) focused on one
person’s attempts to find lost love in the maze of social lies in order
to then share it with everyone. The Great Devouring is a quartet play
where four people proceed to fill their bellies and their yearnings to
do something total. Wednesday is Lagle’s newest stage production, where
the focus is no longer on the heroes of our everyday lives, daredevils
who perform superhuman acts. Instead it is on the ordinary person in the
middle of his Wednesday.
But why should anyone just tell a
story about “ordinariness”? That is done quite often but Lagle is
nevertheless a director with a different touch. He seeks the exalted in
the banal, hope in worries, and joy in the routine. By now he has been
in a room with four women for almost two months and together with them
he has examined what it is that turns an ordinary Wednesday into
Wednesday. What happens? Why doesn’t anything ever happen? What comes to
mind? What would you like to do? What would you like to eat, to drink,
who would you like to talk to? Is there anyone to talk to at all? And
above all: what rhythm does the heart beat in when all those questions
are being asked?
Wednesday is a cheerful play. It is extremely
important. It is necessary to find the right words so as not to get
snotty when talking about the everyday, not to get stuck in that
ordinariness, but rather to find the opportunities in precisely what is
boring and routine for seeing your own life as an inexhaustible well of
thirst for life. All that is why it is a good idea to come to the
theatre by seven o’clock.
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A single
minute for Lauri Lagle can last for an entire hour. An eighty-minute
play can pass in the twinkling of an eye. The only thing that is really
ours is the time of our life. In Lagle’s theatre, we jointly experience
how that proceeds.
Stefan Schmidtke
Director and Art Director Lauri Lagle
Music Design Mihkel Tomberg, troupe, Hendrik Kaljujärv
Costume Designer Ene-Liis Semper
Light Designer Siim Reispass
Cast: Eva Klemets, Inga Salurand, Kaie Mihkelson (Estonian Drama Theatre) and Mari Abel (Von Krahl Theatre).
Premiere on November 2 2013 at Theatre NO99