Näidendite andmebaas

The man and the woman, who are living together, both represent typical career- oriented people, rushing superficially through life. The woman is currently running for an even higher position, when her disabled father comes back into her life. She has only traumatic memories of her father – he used to hit her when she was a child, and she doesn’t want to hear anything about this guy.
But then, as it is laid down in law, you have to take care of your parents when they get old. The man, the partner gets pissed off and leaves the woman. And something happens in the relationship between the woman and the once-violent father. The memories start pouring in. So the plot of the play is anchored in today’s social life, but that is only one aspect of the play.
What really catches the reader is the language of the play. Martin Algus has experimented with very minimal and poetic language. He uses mostly one to three words in a line. The dialogue between the man and the woman (since the father is disabled and not able to speak) is exclusionary. That means the dialogue gives us a few words, but we have to figure out what lies behind the lines. The atmosphere really comes through – it is somewhat dark, threatening and sinister. The sparse words that the characters drop appear almost as ice crystals on a cold winter night.