Battlefield
(2021)
Based on the title, one might think this is a play about war. But it isn't. "Battlefield" is not a play about the Second World War, the fall of Troy, or the fall of Kabul. It's not a play about cannons and trenches, soldiers and death. The battle fought on stage is at once smaller and larger, because the fighting takes place nowhere but inside your own head.
This is a play about people waging their everyday battle with time, which keeps wanting to rewrite itself, again and again.
Yes — with time, specifically. Because the history of the world is written in sand. Even though it's also written in stone and on parchment, on paper and papyrus, carved into cliffs and locked into code, called out into the air and burned onto iron tablets — in the end, all that remains of it is sand. Dull sand, and an empty field. And there's really nothing frightening in that. Because once everything has turned to sand again, everything begins anew. Always.
And the history of the world? It's nothing more than the sum of everyone's personal histories. Complicated? No — simple. The moment you learned to walk is exactly as much a part of world history as the fall of the Roman Empire in the year 476.
The play takes its audience on a journey to their own personal battlefield — into their own head, their own memory. Which means that whether this is a comedy or a tragedy, an epic or a diary, a poem or a novel, is different for every viewer.
Director: Jan Teevet
Dramaturg: Oliver Issak
Scenography: Kairi Mändla, Taavi Teevet
Performers: Kirill Havanski, Johannes Richard Sepping and Maria Paiste.
Sound: Kenn-Eerik Kannike
Light: Mikk-Mait Kivi
Producer: Harri Ausmaa
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Paide Teater, 2021
Interviews
Mälu Paide teatri lavastuses “Lahinguväli”. Delta. (13.10.2021)
Reviews
ARVUSTUS | Paide teatri “Lahinguväli”: mitte kaotajatest, vaid maletajatest. – PDF
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