A Hundred Grams of Blue Sky
The sky is hanging above the market building, city buses fart thick blue fumes out of their asses, women wear cotton dresses at home and brown coats outdoors. After the parade, men stand in a beer queue for what seems an eternity. The streets are so dusty that at home people find sand grains between their teeth. So, they breathe only with half their mouths, avoid talking, observe themselves and others, not daring to hope too much. In secret, someone keeps a pig in their garden or distills vodka behind closed doors, others listen to the Voice of America under their covers – this beacon talks about distant worlds and the courage to live.
Suddenly, just before nightfall the shared kitchen turns golden like an icon. In the morning light, a text is seen painted on a fence at night: “Slavery is not an inevitability!” The backyard of a house is full of gathering people, heads tilted up, looking at a hole in the sky and feeling weird, like free human beings. As if someone is coming, talking loudly and inviting over everyone who is stunned by joy and teased by happiness. Who says there will be no party?
This production inspired by the life and poetry of Estonian poet Artur Alliksaar will premiere on the 100th anniversary of his birth.
Premiere on 15 April 2023 at the Harbour Theatre
Author-director Urmas Vadi
Scenographer Pille Jänes
Lighting designer Priidu Adlas Eesti Draamateater
Video designer Karl-Gustav Kello
Cast Piret Laurimaa, Lena Barbara Luhse, Reimo Sagor, Veiko Porkanen
Videos
Articles
Vanemuise lavastus „Sada grammi taevasina“ osaleb DRAAMA 2024 festivalil | Vanemuise uudisvoog | 5.09.2023
Kriitikakonkursi "Arukas arvustaja" võidutöö | Lavastus, mida ilmtingimata vaadata kaks korda ehk Double espresso shot Werneris | ERR kultuuriportaal | 11.04.2023
Arvustus | Kesk õitsvaid aedu saatus kõnnib saega | Sirp | 9.06.2023
Vestlus Urmas Vadiga Artur Alliksaare loomingust ja lavastusest | Klassikaraadio "Delta" | 20.04.2023
KUKITEMUKI: Vahetada tekk sõnaraamatu vastu | Raplamaa Sõnumid | 19.04.2023
Vadi: "Sada grammi taevasina" võiks olla sisselõige ühe poeedi teadvusesse | "Aktuaalne kaamera" | 18.04.2023
Arvustus | Kell, sidrun ja liha aitavad vaadata lugu poeedi elust | Tartu Postimees | 18.04.2023
Näidendi autor Urmas Vadi Alliksaare radadel: luuletajana oli Alliksaar omal ajal teiste silmis sama hästi kui töötu | "Ringvaade" | 13.04.2023
Vanemuine toob vaatajate ette lavastuse Artur Alliksaare elust ja luulest | Tartu Postimees | 12.04.2023
Sõnameister Alliksaart meenutades | Naisteleht | 12.04.2023
Vanemuine toob vaatajate ette lavastuse Artur Alliksaare elust ja luulest | Tartu Postimees | 11.04.2023
Vanemuises esietendub Artur Alliksaarest inspireeritud lavastus | ERR kultuuriportaal | 11.04.2023
Vanemuises esietendub Artur Alliksaarest inspireeritud lavastus | Vanemuise uudisvoog | 6.04.2023
Galerii: Vanemuises algasid Urmas Vadi "Sada grammi taevasina" proovid | ERR kultuuriportaal | 15.02.2023
Galerii: algasid Artur Alliksaarest inspireeritud lavastuse proovid | Tartu Postimees | 14.02.2023
Alliksaare müüt | Hooajakiri RAMP | Kevadnumber 2023
Interviews
Veiko Porkanen ja Reimo Sagor jagavad mõtteid lavastusest ja selle sisemaailmast | Vanemuise veerand | 8.02.2024
