{"id":27330,"date":"2025-05-28T21:59:31","date_gmt":"2025-05-28T18:59:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/2024.eestinoorsooteater.ee\/lavastus\/enne-meid-oli-veeuputus\/"},"modified":"2025-11-06T16:49:01","modified_gmt":"2025-11-06T14:49:01","slug":"before-us-the-deluge","status":"publish","type":"lavastus","link":"https:\/\/www.eestinoorsooteater.ee\/en\/lavastus\/before-us-the-deluge\/","title":{"rendered":"Before Us, The Deluge"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Before Us, The Deluge is a co-production between NUKU theatre and Vaba Lava platform about the 1980s in Estonia. The production is part of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ev100.ee\/en\/estonia-100-theatre-series-tale-century\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\">Estonia 100 Theatre Series Tale of The Century<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><em>The\u00a0<\/em><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/List_of_flood_myths\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\"><em>flood myth motif<\/em><\/a>\u00a0<em>is found among many (ancient) cultures such as the\u00a0<\/em><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Mesopotamian\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\"><em>Mesopotamian<\/em><\/a>\u00a0<em>flood stories,\u00a0<\/em><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Deucalion\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\"><em>Deucalion<\/em><\/a><em>\u00a0in\u00a0<\/em><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Greek_mythology\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\"><em>Greek mythology<\/em><\/a><em>, the\u00a0<\/em><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Genesis_flood_narrative\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\"><em>Genesis flood narrative<\/em><\/a><em>\u00a0etc. In the narrative, a great flood, destroying a whole civilization is often brought about by a deity as an act of divine retribution.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><strong>\u00a0<\/strong>The genre of the piece would be `epic communal drama`, where a bursting water pipe brings chaos and causes devastating deluge in an apartment building at \u00d5ism\u00e4e Road 10. The event is well-documented: the flooding, wreaking havoc in the building begins on August 1987.<\/p>\n<p>In the show, devastation caused to the building by flooding can be interpreted as an extended metaphor: it is a story of a decade, when the map of Europe was reshaped, a decade, which signalled an epochal shift in ideological power structures of the whole world, a decade which transformed people\u2019s dreams.<\/p>\n<p>At the beginning of the 1980s the modern Soviet apartment building embodied the essence of luxury for all Estonians, whereas by the end of the decade it had become a grey monument to a failed utopia.<\/p>\n<p>The developments of the 1980s are seen through the eyes of three pre-teenagers. Having survived the deluge, they must now create a new world of their own. Retrospective monologues, archive footage and staged video re-enactments enable to see the interaction between personal stories and official history by placing a housing block in \u00d5ism\u00e4e as its focal point.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The production is part of Estonia 100 Theatre Series Tale of The Century<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":43289,"menu_order":195,"template":"","tags":[321],"sihtgrupp":[96],"class_list":["post-27330","lavastus","type-lavastus","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","tag-arhiiv-en","sihtgrupp-adult"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eestinoorsooteater.ee\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/lavastus\/27330","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eestinoorsooteater.ee\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/lavastus"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eestinoorsooteater.ee\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/lavastus"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.eestinoorsooteater.ee\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/lavastus\/27330\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":27341,"href":"https:\/\/www.eestinoorsooteater.ee\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/lavastus\/27330\/revisions\/27341"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eestinoorsooteater.ee\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/43289"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eestinoorsooteater.ee\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=27330"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eestinoorsooteater.ee\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=27330"},{"taxonomy":"sihtgrupp","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eestinoorsooteater.ee\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/sihtgrupp?post=27330"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}