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A theatre saga in two acts 

Something totally unexpected happens in 1870. Something that irrevocably changes the fate of a people and culture. It is the birth of theatre in our mother tongue.

Across changing times, success and glamour, destruction and rising from ashes, inspiration and fascination with art, the avant-garde and the traditional, loss and discovery, this utterly unlikely phenomenon has lasted and evolved already for 150 years. Everything changes: decorations, and costumes, styles and trends, directors and janitors, dances and songs, managers and budgets, cues and characters, systems of government and actors – nobody and nothing lasts forever. But the theatre remains … or does it?

Première on 16 November 2019 at the Grand Building of the Vanemuine Theatre