Playing the Victim

Last Saturday was the great day when I finally managed to go to theatre again. There was about 1 year pause because Hanna just did not drink from bottle with a teat meaning that there was not so much alternative for her feeding than me being around. Now she's already eating like "normal" people, and finally we could go to theatre. We went to see play named 'Playing the Victim' written by Iranian-Russian brothers Presnyakovs. It was staged in my favourite theatre in Tallinn - Linnateater (Tallinn City Theatre). This theatre the most reminds me of Jaunais Rīgas Teātris (New Riga Theatre) from Latvia.
Unfortunately the performance was a disappointment. The episodes somehow went on for long time, when I thought that I have got the idea and we could move on. So, it got boring to wait for those episodes to move on. Then there was some strange video going on, which was sometimes distracting to see what's happening on stage. There was also a father, who was actually dead, so kind of his ghost arrived from the other world to talk to his son. But he did it with very loud music and very strong microphone. For the first time it was so loud that I just didn't get the message what he was saying. For the second time I was already smarter and closed my ears with fingers - in that way it was possible to distinguish from the beat music what he actually was speaking. In the end I was starting to doubt if I understood the play at all, and maybe there was some deeper idea, what my mind, with education in economics, is just unable to comprehend. So, in the end I felt like being stupid and not understanding the art.
When returning home, the first thing was to search in internet what was the idea of the play. It turned out that there was no more deeper idea than what I had thought out myself. Besides there was article of Estonian newspaper Sirp mentioning some of the shortcomings of the performance what I had noticed. Well, Sirp is the newspaper for culture people with very good reputation in Estonia, so my self-esteem returned :)
Anyway, as we have to use time before the new baby is born, we have tickets for another theatre performance in November, and I very much hope that it will be much better.