Pimenägemine

Author: Karl Ristikivi

Director: Ott Aardam

Read by: Lembit Peterson, Laura Peterson-Aardam, Helvin Kaljula, Marius Peterson, Tarmo Song, Ott Aardam and Abram Aardam

Sound: Taavi Kerikmäe

Premiere on Sunday 14 September 2025 at 20:30 at the House of the Blackheads

Karl Ristikivi's radio play “Pimenägemine” was written in Swedish in the 1950s under the pseudonym Kent Jansson. For some reason Ristikivi considered it important to hide behind a pseudonym. The central character of “Pimenägemine” is a man who hides in darkness. He cannot see. His eyes are fine, but he cannot see. Or does he not want to see, or is he unable to?

Ristikivi asks whether the bare, harsh truth is what saves the world, or whether truth without love is so devastating that it is healthier to hide from it. You can listen your way into these themes together with Karl Ristikivi, the actors of Theatrum and the sound design created by Taavi Kerikmäe.

Theatrum's “Kuulamised” series was created to listen to different texts together. Listening together, you always hear something in a text that you would not hear alone.

This time we have taken “Kuulamised” one step further. It is a kind of listening experiment in which the audience's eyes are covered. Only listening remains. And if you listen very sharply, you may also see.

The radio play “Pimenägemine” comes to the stage as part of the Pikk Street Festival.

Supported by: City of Tallinn, Cultural Endowment of Estonia, Estonian Centre of Contemporary Music (ECCM), Karl Ristikivi Society

Organiser of the event:

SA Theatrum
Vene 14, Tallinn 10123
reg. no: 90008956