
Three dogs are applying to join the counter-terrorism unit K7.
This is the first production of Juan Mayorga's play in Estonia.
Translator Laura Talvet
Director, musical designer Joonas Vatter
Artist Heili Helene Rungi
Lighting designer Enor Niinemägi
Sound engineer Jörgen Sinka
Producer Kelly Kittus
Cast: Getter Dolgošev, Anel Neumann, Henrik Lainvoo, Peeter Piiri, Toomas Krips
The performance is in one act and lasts 1 hour and 40 minutes. NB! The performance uses gunshots and loud music.
Supporters: Estonian Cultural Endowment, City of Tartu, Tartu Student House.
They are the last three finalists. Their final exam begins and only one will be chosen.
John-John, a crossbreed of several different breeds, has spent most of his life training for this moment and wants to serve his master as a loyal subordinate and protect society. Odin, a mixed-breed Rottweiler, wants to have a high-flying career as a dog. Now he expects a lucrative deal from K7. Immanuel, a German shepherd, stands out from the rest. He does not have John-John's strength or Odin's sense of smell. Immanuel has attended university with his former mistress and listened to philosophy lectures. He wants to contribute to a peaceful world, but he hesitates - whether to fight violence with violence.
The text written in 2009 by Spanish playwright Juan Mayorga focuses on the question of what tools modern society should use in the fight against terrorism. In 2022 - in the midst of a new whirlwind of war - we can define the meaning of the word "terrorism" much more broadly than just the offensive activities of some religious extremist group. Couldn't we consider anyone who seeks to achieve their goals by sowing fear and hatred, killing and destroying, anyone who attacks their neighbor and starts a war, a terrorist? In the Tartu Student Theatre's production "Endless Peace", violence against another person is under examination, both on an individual and mass level. Pacifist ideals of peaceful humanity collide here with our world at war, where attempts are made to justify taking another person's life. How inevitable is violence in a world where we are attacked and innocent lives are put at risk? Can freedom and peace be won for ourselves by killing? What price do we pay for this struggle in our hearts?
The play offers the audience an allegorical mirror image of our world - an opportunity to recognize different types of people and ways of thinking.
