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“100 Grams of Blue Sky” is a play about the life of a Poet. While the prototype for the Poet is the well-known Estonian 20th century poet Artur Alliksaar, it’s not a documentary play. It doesn’t focus on the realistic depiction of Alliksaar’s life events as much as on his inner life and creative impulses – the poetry, which surges out of him and fills the surrounding space. In contrast to the mundane poverty and practicality of everyday life, these exuberant and reality-warping symbols of the poet’s world feel wholly unpredictable. An absurdist stage reality is born, one in which people lack the money to buy food, yet women with incandescent bellies and men with bull’s heads are cruising the streets.

The clash of the poetic and the mundane will certainly present challenges to the director, however, creative, propositional solutions are part of the fabric of the text. Despite the plurality of roles the play can be staged with four actors, each scene serving as a small independent world, which comes to light and disappears. The emotional tone of the text is similarly enigmatic: beneath the comedic surface lies a deeply rooted melancholy, which leaves a tingling sensation in one’s body.