Näidendite andmebaas

Sabi’s parents abandoned their daughter when she was 14. Five years later, Sabi lives by herself at her parents’ place – throws parties, experiments with drugs, listens to music, hosts her friends and, once a week, Rein, a friend of her father’s, who is keeping an eye on her. Sabi’s home is also where the play is set.
Emesis propels the reader into the world of 18-19-year-old high-schoolers with an unsparing honesty. The language of the play, as well as its fractured everyday images and confessional memories, all emit a pain which has for years been covered up by parties and rationalisations.
Like a physical reaction – vomiting, which Emesis denotes – problems like sexual abuse, dependency and traumas suddenly begin to cascade. The form of the play disintegrates as well – postdramatic ruptures and repetitions begin to mirror the trauma-induced confusion and turmoil of the protagonist’s sense of reality.
The play calls forth a silent scream for help – why do young people keep floundering in this mess and why does nobody prevent it?