Misery

Three Kingdoms

"Three Kingdoms" is a trip to the undiscovered corners in Europe and consciousness. International co-project brings together British playwright, German director and actors from NO99, Münchner Kammerspiele and London. The production will be played in Tallinn, Munich and London. World premiere September 17th in Theatre NO99.

The Rise and Fall of Estonia

Noises Off

"Noises Off!" is a comedy, and Theatre NO99 will do it - believe it or not.

Author Michael Frayn
Directors Tiit Ojasoo / Ene-Liis Semper
On stage Osades Rasmus Kaljujärv, Eva Klemets, Risto Kübar, Mirtel Pohla, Jaak Prints, Gert Raudsep, Tiina Tauraite (Von Krahl Theater), Tambet Tuisk, Sergo Vares

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Lauri Lagle (Estonian Drama Theatre) production is a psychedelic trip through one man’s life seen through the eyes of tens of travelling companions. The art director is Liisi Eelmaa; the cast consists of Inga Salurand, Marika Vaarik, Eva Klemets, Risto Kübar, Rasmus Kaljujärv, Tambet Tuisk, Gert Raudsep, Jaak Prints and Andres Mähar.

Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolfi?

This classic play from the 1960’s avant-garde continues to attract attention to this day from the most varied angles. Some point out the social criticism of Albee’s text, where among others a view of the world that is too rational, various socially deceptive goods, and the possibility of a universal morality are criticised. Others see the aesthetic interweaving of the play, where actors are given the opportunity to study people and their own abilities as actors through the characters of George, Martha, Nick and Honey.

How to Explain Pictures to a Dead Hare

In addition to the mere “message”, the stage production also considers questions of theatre phenomenology. The dependence of the realisation of the message on the capability to execute the performance is examined, thus in a sense continuing the theme of NO99’s opening production of Sometimes it Feels Like…. This time, however, the emphasis is on the measurability of the value of the execution. Yet putting the audience to the test through the participation of Beuys himself is not merely a simple decorative citation but rather an introduction to the theme of how the possibilities for appraising the fact of art are already staged into the auditorium a priori. The fact that the production is full of references and citations not only divides the audience into those who understand and those who do not, it also raises the question of the specific perception of theatre art.
Madis Kolk

Idea by Tiit Ojasoo and Ene-Liis Semper
Directed and scenography by Tiit Ojasoo and Ene-Liis Semper
Dance scene by Mart Kangro

On stage Rasmus Kaljujärv, Risto Kübar, Andres Mähar, Mirtel Pohla, Jaak Prints, Gert Raudsep, Inga Salurand, Tambet Tuisk, Marika Vaarik, Sergo Vares

Iphigenia in Aulis

This is Theater NO99 new play that will premiere in March this year. Euripides' "Iphigeneia in Aulis", director Lorna Marshall.

Aktsioon: Teater NO99 7th birthday

Action: Who could replace the human being

Action

Help, Aliems!

From the Roof

One-time action by Rasmus Kaljujärv

On June 4th made Rasmus Kaljujärv one-time action in NO99 Straw Theatre.

Straw Theatre

Straw Theatre as a temporary building.
It will last for only five months.
Thus: time is limited.
Whatever happens here this summer will never happen again.

What was today will not be tomorrow. We come to Skane, build a building, we bring children here to play, we bring gurus to make and display art, and when autumn arrives we’ll pack up our things again, dismantle the Straw Theatre and go back to our former lives. There is the sadness of creation and the beauty of departure in all this.

Ühtne Eesti assembly

Estonia is a land where authority is known instead of truth, dread instead of liberty, petit bourgeois dullness instead of yearning.

Friedebert Tuglas

Tallinn - meie linn

Action

Aktsioon:

Pecha Kucha ja Potlatch

It`s time to burn things

Garbage, the City and Death

Fassbinder/Õunpuu

One, two, three. One, two, three. One, two, three. One, two, three. One, two, three. One, two, three. One, two, three. One, two, three. One, two, three.
And the slumber comes more easily in this night, in this city, jaded by the garbage and the sex - now on the streets is walking security: with suppressed anger, with its suppressed anger, brutal sense of humor and armed to the teeth.

Director: Veiko Õunpuu
Scenography by Ene-Liis Semper and Laura Pählapuu
Cast: Teater NO99 trupp

Premiere in February 2010

Action: Tonight with Jaak Prints

But what makes an actor when he does not do anything?

Action:Solaris

Margarita and Master

Alexander Pepelyayev is not yet a classic like Bulgakov, Berlioz or Peemot, yet he undoubtedly knows very well how to get people to move mysteriously. Thinking back to his stage productions of The Cherry Orchard (NO95, 2005) or the dance production of Three Sisters (2004), it is clear that Pepelyayev creates surprises, sudden changes in direction, and nonrecurring worlds.
This time it's Pepelyayev together with students from Theatre Academy and Bulgakov.

Uncle Tom's Cabin

Six travellers

Six travellers find themselves in the same place at the same time, at the airport. The flights of all six have been delayed. With each passing hour, hope wanes for any flight to take place at all or for them to ever arrive at the destination of their life journey.

Jaak Prints and Alissa Shnaider met these young people through giving lessons at the Puppet Theatre Youth Studio. They performed in early December with this same team production in the young choreographers’ series Hypekas. Now they are creating a more complete stage production.

Premiere March 28th.

Startup

Mart Kase:
The stage production does not talk about the ability to find partners and financiers for ideas. That is the second stage of ideas and at least as complicated as the first stage. The theme of how to expand and present one’s business to the world through the proper channels is very broad. I don’t know anything about it and I don’t know how to write adequate dramaturgical exaggerations about it, so it was better to leave it all out. The final result should be light rather than sombre, more artistic than only social. It should carry a message.

Runo Songs

If Estonian mythology exists anywhere, then it is in ancient folk songs. Singing gives power, singing is power, the singer must have power. A good singer steps out of the way with his ego and lets the world be seen through himself as if through an open door. May the weather be beautiful!
Estonian Academy of Music and Theatre School of Theatre Arts lecturer Anne Türnpu put together the programme.
The production is the exam for the theatre students in theatrical speech.
Cast: students.
Premiere March 3rd.

Head change

The waiting hall of a railway station. A hall where people wait for trains. A happy pianist with his personal orchestra. A man suddenly enters the station and brushes dust and sand off his clothes. He, too, was once a pianist. The happy pianist and the dusty pianist know each other well.
Written and directed by Uku Uusberg, music composed by Pärt Uusberg. Cast Märt Avandi and Priit Võigemast, songs performed by ”Good Night, Brother” chamber choir.

One-time-action

Action

28. November 2008 was a day like no other. No, we were all in theatre working like busy bees - but we all had new tasks. Stage manager was suddenly designer, actor was a market manager etc. And in the evening? Well, of course the performance was there. With actors and everything. But these were the actors you had never seen on stage before - and you probably won't see them ever again. One day. All jobs mixed up. Life becomes theatre.

Macbeth

Jaan Tooming and Anne Türnpu re-wrote Shakespeare's "Macbeth". The witches are male and there's more of them than ever before. Simple stage design, pure acting, mighty symbols and power rarely to be seen.

rambo

Kristjan Sarv creates a stage production that draws inspiration from David Morrelli’s novel First Blood and the film Rambo based on that novel. Yet in Sarv’s opinion, there are no more Rambos – there are only rambos.

99x

NO99 continued the series of one-off actions. The third action in the big hall was 99x, presented by Kristjan Sarv in co-operation with Henry Miller and Hendrik Kaljujärv. He presented it for 99 times. The action started at 6 p.m. and it lasted til 4 a.m.

Pericles

Tiit Ojasoo`s stage production is about beauty and happiness, and the will and fortitude that lead to such beauty and happiness. The impossible becomes possible, the legless dance, and the hopeless sing. Sweat pours but the objective does not disappear. These people do not dream about what they are ordered to dream about: they make their dreams themselves.

Premiere on 15 March 2008.

tsuaF

Aleksander Pepelyayev, well-known Russian choreographer, directed Goethe's classical novel "Faust" with the students from Theatre Academy. He turned the name of the novel upside down - but not only the name. Free improvisations and inspired movements, based on different topics taken from the novel.

Death of a Communist

Hendrik Toompere jr's wrote and directed his first play about forest brothers. Those were the partizans who fought against communist regime from the 1940s til 1978. They fought and communists kept dying - and they kept, kept, kept. But at the end there was no more death. Communist was still there, holding his gun in one hand and daughter of his neighbour in the other.
On stage Gert Raudsep, Tambet Tuisk, Mirtel Pohla, Sergo Vares, Risto Kübar, Andres Mähar, Inga Salurand, Kristjan Sarv and Jaak Prints.

ГЭП Hot Estonian Guys

Tiit Ojasoo’s production "ГЭП or Garjatšije estonskije parni" is about the extinction of Estonians. Scientists agree: "This is no longer an issue, but a matter of time. We need a crazy idea." The crazy idea exists. A group of young men decides to take a desperate but right step. Morally unacceptable, ethically dubious, but crucial and imperative. One last attempt is made to save the Estonian nation.

Dunno on the Moon

"Totu on the Moon" is a production played only in the heart of capitalism:
in various offices by previous arrangement. The production executed with minimalist means tells about the power of money and the impossibility of solidarity. On the basis of Nikolai Nossov’s novel of the same title, concept by Tiit Ojasoo, directing by Ojasoo
and Kaspar Jancis, who also provided the musical arrangement. The lead is played by Risto Kübar, other roles: Kristjan Sarv, Andres Mähar, Gert Raudsep, Rasmus Kaljujärv, Jaak Prints, Mirtel Pohla, Inga Salurand and Sergo Vares.

The Seagull

Ingo Normet’s production is based on Anton Chekhov’s “The Seagull”, a co-operation of NO99 and the Theatre School. Actors are students of the new class of Theatre School. Ingo Normet: "Chekhov has managed to unravel extremely complicated issues with elegant lightness, create superb roles. For the students, playing in “The Seagull” is a wonderful opportunity to learn the paradoxes of human behaviour. And it is an excellent opportunity for the audience to see the coming of a new theatre generation and their attitudes."

Deer Hunter

"The Deer Hunter" examines what happens to friendship, how love changes and where to find freedom. "The Deer Hunter" is directed by Tiit Ojasoo, artist-director is Ene-Liis Semper. Cast from theatre NO99.

King Ubu

Alfred Jarry\'s "King Ubu" was produced in Estonia for the very first time. It premiered in July 2006, but there were performances also in summer 2007. The classics of surrealist movement was played in three abandonded plane angars near Haapsalu, which were re-built for different stages. Production by Tiit Ojasoo and Ene-Liis Semper, stage design by Semper. Musical design and leading role by crazy musician Chalice. Actors include all crew from NO99 plus Marika Vaarik as Mrs Ubu. In 2006 leading role by Tõnis Mägi.

Stalker

Sebastian Hartmann is one of the most important directors in contemporary German theatre. He has worked in Volksbuehne (Berlin), Schauspielhaus (Hamburg), Nationalteatret (Oslo), Burgtheater (Wien) etc. "Stalker" is his second production that bases on Andrei Tarkovski\\\'s movie. It\\\'s a story about forbidden Zone, where four men go to find something they yet don\\\'t know. Probably the most contemporary theatre language in today\\\'s Estonian theatre!
Together with Hartmann: stage design by professor Peter Schubert, internationally known set designer. Voted for the Best Stage Designer of the Year in Germany!
Also Mirtel Pohla, Jaak Prints, Gert Raudsep, Kristjan Sarv and Tambet Tuisk.

Keeleuuenduse ∞ kurv

"Keeleuuenduse ∞ kurv" was based on the texts by Johannes Aavik. Aavik was well-known philologist, who made several proposals for renewing Estonian language. Produced by Anu Lamp, participants were Higher Drama School final year students.

Oil!

"Oil! " is a production by Tiit Ojasoo and Ene-Liis Semper. What happens when we face oil peak? Is it sad or funny? Does something happens at all?

Ulgumerelainetel

The performance "On the Open Sea: To Your Knees" was based on Slawomir Mrozhek\'s famous play "On the Open Sea". Three men have to decide who will be eaten so that the others could save their lives. The play was produced for the christmas events. On the night of December 22nd they played it once again. Only this time they were very-very drunk. Really. Idea by Tiit Ojasoo, drunken actors: Gert Raudsep, Tambet Tuisk, Kristjan Sarv and Jaak Prints.

Two suns

"Two suns" is a production for children and adults. It focuses on myths and fairy-tales of different nations all around the world. They are very funny and filled with unconventional phantasy. All stories are translated by famous Estonian poet Jaan Kaplinski. "Two suns" is produced by Andres Noormets (Endla), scenography by Ene-Liis Semper. Actors are Tambet Tuisk, Gert Raudsep, Kristjan Sarv and Jaak Prints.

Rotten Harry

Marco Laimre is an Estonian artist. In autumn 2005 he made a performance called "Rotten Harry" in theatre NO99. It was the first one-time-action in NO99, continued by "Ulgumerelainetel" by Tiit Ojasoo and drunken actors. The same actors were most sober when doing "Rotten Harry": Tambet Tuisk, Jaak Prints, Gert Raudsep and Kristjan Sarv.

The Cherry Orchard

“Cherry Orchard” was directed by Russian choreographer Alexander Pepelyaev . The participants of Anton Chekhov’s play are the Higher Stage School final year students as well as Gert Raudsep, Kristjan Sarv and Jaak Prints from NO99.

Seven samurai

"Seven samurai" was a story about seven men, who are protecting one small village from the robbers. The performance was slightly inspired by Akira Kurosawa's famous movie, but it was a whole new story. The perfomance was played in Kadriorg park in the abandonded swimming pools. Directed by Tiit Ojasoo and Ene-Liis Semper, scenography by Ene-Liis Semper. Actors included Tambet Tuisk, Gert Raudsep, Kristjan Sarv, Jaak Prints, Rein Oja, Tarvo Sõmer (Rakvere Theatre), Indrek Ojari (City Theatre), plus Mari Abel (Von Krahl) ja Hilja Varem.
Rein Oja won for his role The Best Male Actor of the Year 2005 award.

The Pillowman

Martin McDonagh is an Irish dramatist, whose texts have been staged in Estonia in large
numbers (e.g. “The Inishmore Lieutenant” in the Estonian Drama Theatre, "The Beauty Queen of Leenane” in theatre “Vanemuine”, etc.). The premiére of his newest text, “The
Pillowman”, took place in London at the end of 2003, but has already been staged in more than 40 countries.

Journey of a man

The stage production “Inimese teekond” (“Journey of a man”) was based on John
Bunyan’s “Pilgrim’s progress”. It was an allegorical journey of passing of the line of the end of the world. The production was made by director Anne Türnpu and actors Mart Koldits, Ott Sepp, Kristjan Sarv, Eva Püssa, Marin Mägi, Märt Avandi.

Sometimes it feels as if life has gone by without love

“Sometimes it feels as if life has gone by without love” was the
opening stage production of theatre NO99. Tiit Ojasoo and Ene-Liis Semper handled free play and passionate life, but in the first range the courage to have the ideals. In the
production entangled improvisational excercises and texts by Japanese writer Yukio Mishima. Actors included Tiit Ojasoo, Rasmus Kaljujärv, Kristjan Sarv and Hendrik Toompere jr.