Näidendite andmebaas

Eleven outwardly different people – with different worldviews, families, economic classes and professions – share their personal histories. What connects them is solitude. The play proceeds across the overlaps in their life paths: the characters describe their childhoods, when they first realised they were lonely, when they matured, when they yearned away, and so on.
Some of them enjoy their solitude, some feel imprisoned, some have lost their caretaker at a very young age, some are afraid of solitude, others have made peace with it. The spectrum of people on stage spans from youth to elderly, wealthy to impoverished.
The play is based on real-life interviews and the stage text is verbatim. Thematic verses, personal ads and passages-allusions to Hamlet are interspersed between the interviews.
I Could Be Bounded in a Nutshell has a therapeutic and devastating impact, in unison, as a documentary and poetic exploration of loneliness and solitude.