The Devil’s Restaurant at Kellerteater
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.
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.
The core of the performance emulates the screen-to-stage transformation, with actors performing their scenes silently as other cast members, off-stage, provide the voices. The expressiveness and timing of the troupe is impeccable.
Altogether, it feels like a meditation—it is easy to get lost in the moment, the world shrinking down to just lights, noise, and sensation. It is disorienting, in the best of ways.
Kriminull is a murder mystery, and the audience chooses the victim, the murderer, and the actors that portray them, as well as the location and cause of death. But knowing the end never spoiled a good story, and Kriminull follows the unfolding investigation into the murder through the eyes of the chief detective – whose actor is also chosen by the audience.
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Director Tanel Saar and choreographer Hanna Maria Saar have delivered a compelling performance – a nuanced narrative which holds the audience captive through rushes of anime-style fight scenes which bend time and somehow cinematically pan or zoom in on a humorously pained expression, to intimate scenes reminiscent of Frantic Assembly’s weaving contact movement style…
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It is no easy feat to portray something classical and historical while at the same time being relatable to a modern audience, yet Daniel Gerroll pulls it off with ease.
In turns heartfelt, bizarre, and confronting, the evening brought forward the conflicts between vulnerability and self-protection when facing internal and external pressures.