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.
Beneath the layers, the performer slowly reveals herself, creating the sensation of unwrapping a piece of candy.