Oliver Issak

... is a dramaturg and freelance artist whose work in social design and performance art challenges traditional boundaries and activates public spaces through immersive, participatory experiences.

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Plays
  1. tonight (2025)
  2. Bogged down (2025)

Performances
  1. Until they are dead, they shall live forever (2026)
  2. The Dew Point (2025)
  3. How to Look at the Sea? (2024)
  4. Oasis (2022)
  5. Battlefield (2021)
  6. Safe Zone (2018)

Actions
  1. Monuments (2025)
  2. The Embassy of Utopia: Estonian Book 1000 (2025)
  3. The Embassy of Utopia: Radio (2023-2025)
  4. Translation Agency (2024)
  5. The Embassy of Utopia: Happiness for Everyone, Free of Charfe, and Let No One Be Forgotten (2024)
  6. The Embassy of Utopia: Longing for a Different Way of Being (2023) 
  7. The Shadow Council (2022)
  8. 33 Speeches (2021)

Dramaturgical Formats
  1. Two-Room Conference
  2. Senior Citizens' Theatre Club "Avangard"
  3. Dinner at the Dramaturg's
 
Presentations / Speeches
  1. Spatial Dimensions in Heritage | Creative Research Capacities (2026)
  2. International Conference "Dramaturgy – Mapping the Landscapes" (2025)
  3. Baltic Drama Forum (2025)
  4. Estonian Cultural Endowment's 100th Anniversary Dinner (2025)
  5. Riga Performance Art Festival "Starptelpa" | Curators' Assembly (2024)

Texts / Books
  1. Teatrielu 2025 (editor) 
  2. Artishok Biennale (critic)
  3. Värske Rõhk: How to Write Kindness? 
  4. sss
  5. ss
  6. “Teatrielu 2020” (editor)

The Embassy of Utopia: 
Longing for a Different Way of Being

(2023)



Talk is talk. Life is life.
/Rutt Hinrikus/

But how many stories fit into a life story? How many stories get locked in life? And how many stories sink into history? And can a life story even be told?
Let’s talk.
The production is simple, because in reality, everything is simple. Even if it doesn’t seem so at first. All the stories we tell are true or fictional. With a happy ending or happy but without an end. With a moral or without one. Some are instructive, and from some, it is wiser not to learn anything. Just like in life. Just like in life stories.











Authors / Directors / Performers:
Sound:
Photos: Johanna Roos

Institute of Meetings and Non-Meetings, 2025Interviews

Oliver Issak ja Jan Teevet: hämarikus lugude kuulamisest on tänapäeval saanud suur luksus (19.04.2026)

Jan Teevet ja Oliver Issak lavastusest "Kuni nad surnud ei ole, elavad nad igavesti" (20.04.2026)

Jan Teevet: elu loo võib ära rääkida ka vaikides (21.04.2026)


Reviews

ARVUSTUS | Inimene võib näha elus tuhandeid päikeseloojanguid, kuid mitut me teadlikult kogeme? – PDF

ARVUSTUS | Kellel on õigus nõuda kohta päikese all? – PDF

TEATRIARVUSTUS | Valle-Sten Maiste: endine väikelinnatrio, keda paelub mälu fenomenoloogia.




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