MEDIATHEK

They Went and Planted the Seeds of Shadows Because the Light Started to Sprout

They Went and Planted… is a theatre piece of music and light inspired by the night with its nightmares, visions, delusions, shadows, colours, fears, sleepwalking and sleep talking, discovery of new worlds, letting go of the old, desire for renewal and awakening. Sleep unites us. We are all equal in sleep. At night the endless corridors of our subconsciousness process what we saw and heard during the day. There are two things certain in life: sleep and death. The composer and the director have selected poems about the night by Artur Alliksaar (1923-66). His metaphorical, playful use of the Estonian language is extremely musical and inspirational. In Alliksaar’s texts, the sound associations and sound symbolism are in the foreground and his poetry has been characterized as having “the sonic primacy.” It is a stream of dream-like, freely structured scenes that begins in the evening and ends at dawn. What is happening to us when we are not awake? Are we all connected as an invisible community or do we completely disconnect from each other and wander into infinite loneliness? This play is an hour-long concert-performance of sound and lights, shadows, shades, and light flashes. The lighting design is an integral part of the work, which will be performed by seven instrumentalists and two singers.