The Sound of Wine at Heldeke! Bottle Shop
Instead of focusing only on tasting notes, I found myself noticing their texture, intensity and overall mood through the music.
Instead of focusing only on tasting notes, I found myself noticing their texture, intensity and overall mood through the music.
It takes a certain kind of person, and personality to be both servile and insistent, coy and comedic. “Ahh!” “Oh no!” and “Oh yeahhh~!” are the only words spoken, by the performer and audience alike, though there is no shortage of sounds or laughter.
Their chemistry makes the relationship between the characters believable, while their reactions and timing keep the absurd situations entertaining.
Through this dynamic back-and-forth, he brilliantly illustrates the subtle difference between a good actor and a bad actor.
It was a lovely surprise and added yet another unexpected layer to an already wonderfully varied evening.
The show itself uses therapy as a frame narrative for loosely-connected interludes of songs, burlesque, and unhinged friendship, as our performers share their struggles and bare their…souls.
The staging is spooky, to be sure, as befits Tallinn’s specialty thriller theatre. The staff-actors are darkly garbed and elaborately coiffed, and gothic is de rigueur.
From the start, the artist plays with the unexpected and opposites: a conservative, traditional background contrasted with raunchy memories from travels across Asia, from Japan to Thailand to Nepal.
We were carried into a kind of bubble for more than an hour and a half, with gentle and soothing moments, more lively and uplifting ones, and plenty of laughter in between.
Tucked into the Püha Vaime Hall, the audience was invited to participate in questions and expressions of shared care in cross-generation community through shadow puppet play and self-examination.