Productions

Wiiralt, Saar and Purgatory

Author of the concept and director Tanel Saar
Choreographer Hanna Maria Saar
Designer Joel Väli
Lighting designer Rommi Ruttas
Composer and musician Madis Muul
Cast Karolin Jürise, Maria Paiste, Ago Soots, Meelis Põdersoo, Margo Teder, Rasmus Järvesaar, Hanna Maria Saar ja Tanel Saar

Life – a bacchanalia ending in a hellish hangover.

The hedonistic lifestyle from the time of Eduard Wiiralt might seem wildly different from what we have today but in the end, the result is exactly the same: the party acts as a rite, for people to feel untethered for a brief moment.

Untethered from? Well, that’s for every partygoer to decide for themselves.

Director Tanel Saar has picked a bouquet of characters from Wiiralt’s two most detailed engravings and has given the characters a story. An escape. A craving for human touch. Regret. Battling demons from one’s past. If only there was a way out! If only for a moment, when the cocktail of absinthe and music makes you feel ever so cozy, warm and safe …

Tanel Saar is the director responsible for many of VAT Theatre's more unconventional productions: "Adam and Eve", "Meal on the Grass", "Blow-Up" and "Oidipus.Antigone".

"Cabaret.Hell", a physical dance experience, will coax the viewers even deeper into the dark Saar-verse.