Näidendite andmebaas

Out of Your Depth moves along three lines, along three characters whose lies have acquired a life of their own, whose personal realities have become detached from everyone else’s. A student who can’t bring himself to tell his family that he is no longer enrolled at university; a journalist who interviews cultural luminaries until it is revealed that he has fabricated all the interviews himself; a notorious 16th century peasant who returns from the army assuming the life of another man.
The liars have to keep their alter egos alive by concocting more elaborate lies and inventing further alter egos, until the burden becomes too heavy to bear or the lie falls apart. Piik brings the philosophical question of truth into real life and, in a Pirandellian manner, calls real life itself into question. At the same time, the text is not a contemplative reading play, but a high-tension drama packed with striking role-changes and gear shifts.