Drama

Koidula’s Blood

(Koidula veri)

Fantastic fragmentarium. A high-spirited fantasy about Estonian cultural history – the characters being the many great figures of the past.

By Loone Ots
Director: Ain Mäeots
Stage Designer: Liina Tepand
Light Designer: Airi Eras

In Roles: Ragne Pekarev, Rein Pakk, Tanel Jonas, Raivo Adlas, Martin Kõiv, Marika Barabanštšikova, Ott Sepp, Alina Karmazina, Merle Jääger, Jüri Lumiste, Riho Kütsar, Indrek Taalmaa (Endla Theatre), Marko Mäesaar

Presented with two intervals.
Running Time:

3:40

Performances:

Maybe Juhan Liiv was not crazy thinking that he was the King of Poland? The author of the play offers an exciting version of the events that took place long time ago, the characters in the play being such as Lydia Koidula, Czar Aleksander II, Johann Voldemar Jannsen, Juhan Luiga, Johann Köhler, Carl Robert Jakobson, Friedrich Reinhold Kreutzwald and many other well-known Estonian people in the field of culture.

The debut play by Loone Ots was awarded the encouragement prize in the play-writing competition organised by the Estonian Drama Agency in 2005.

The premiere on 9 April 2008 in the Grand Building of the Vanemuine.