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Three Ballads, a Story and My Mother’s Estate

Author:
Maike Lond
Director:
Kim Noble, Lukas Jansen, Maike Lond
Premiere:
October 4th, 2025 in Kanuti Gildi SAAL
lavastus-pic

Directed by Maike Lond, Lukas Jansen and Kim Noble
Dramaturge Kim Noble
Sound by Kenn-Eerik Kannike, Maike Lond and Lukas Jansen
Choreographer Daniela Privis
Scenographer Linda Mai Kari
Project Manager Eneli Järs
Co-Producers Maike Lond, Kanuti Gildi SAAL
On stage Maike Lond and Lukas Jansen

The agreed starting point of the production is a letter that the director sent to the dramaturge in 2023. From this first letter, material began to unfold that reflects on the course of life and its documentation – the small achievements that do not find a place in a biography, but which have a decisive role on the course of life.

This first letter from the director went almost like this: "A while ago I heard a punk song called "We Tried Nothing And We Are All Out Of Ideas". Obviously the song was shit, because what else would you expect from a band that didn't even try to come up with a title. It's a quote from The Simpsons – Ned's parents take him to a program for misbehaving children and tell the program host: we tried nothing and we are all out of ideas.

The upcoming production is exactly that - it doesn't try anything, it doesn't invent or offer anything new; it probably doesn't even discover anything new. So here we are. It is what it is.

A play for everyone who feels they are neither here nor there. Like me. Like you."

Of course, all of this is irrelevant, as the conversation was joined by a high school graduate and the director's only child, who doesn't have a CV and isn't interested in any of this.

Three Ballads, a Story and My Mother's Estate is of two people moving further, moving on.

Maike Lond (1981) has a diploma from the Royal Academy of Art, The Hague. She is an artist working in the frame of white cube as well as black box. Maike is one of the initiators of an artist collective MIMproject and performing arts venue elektron.art. Her installations and performances (“Postuganda”, “10 journeys to a place where nothing happens*”, “99 Words for Void”, “Nobody’s Radio”) have been displayed and shown in theaters, media centers and festivals around Europe. She is a light designer and dramaturge. She works in kitchens and bars and plays guitar in a noise rock band. Maike is living and working in Tallinn, Estonia.

Duration: 60’

The performances in October are in English and the performances in December in Estonian.

Supported by Cultural Endowment of Estonia.

Upcoming performances

10

Sep

20:30

Lavastuse plakat

Eesti Teatri Festival DRAAMA

Tartu Uus Teater (Lai 37, Tartu)

11

Sep

21:30

Lavastuse plakat

Eesti Teatri Festival DRAAMA

Tartu Uus Teater (Lai 37, Tartu)