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The Lost World of Widows is inhabited by seemingly comical ladies who have hired Boy to carry out their assigned tasks over the course of a week. The week passes. Contrary to expectations, Boy does not clean the widows’ rooms or mend their broken objects, but instead serves as a loving son, a deceased husband, a missing brother, a principled father.
The play glides imperceptibly from realistic and comedic to mystical and tragic, as the ladies themselves gain more and more layers. Their wishes are peculiar yet wholly understandable. The widows expect Boy to be someone they have never had in their lives. For Boy, granting the widows’ wishes is a step towards becoming a grown-up. It remains unclear till the end whether the ladies are real or departed, waiting for someone to complete what they had left half-done.
Priit Põldma’s play is based on Andrus Kasemaa’s eponymous novel, which was published in 2012. However, it isn’t considered a dramatisation, because the characters, setting and plot are markedly different. It is an original work inspired by the environment of Andrus Kasemaa’s novel.