The performance takes place at the Telliskivi Creative City square, right by the main hall doors of Von Krahl Theatre! Be there—you won’t regret it!

Once upon a time, there was an Excellency who ruled the land. The Excellency had a Tailor who sewed clothes for him. One day, barbarians came and took over. The Tailor began working for the barbarians. The leader of the barbarians, Nutsak, became the new ruler. Like the Excellency before him, Nutsak also desired the most magnificent clothes. And so, the Tailor ends up making new clothes for Nutsak.

What appears to be a simple story is taken to increasingly bizarre and twisted extremes by Slawomir Mrożek’s interpretation. On the surface, it’s a completely minimalist play. On the surface, The Tailor is a story built on such a strong conceptual foundation that even a nuclear bomb wouldn’t be enough to tear it down. But every earthworm has two tails—or rather, two heads—from which the journey can continue. So does this play.

Slawomir Mrożek’s The Tailor was written in Poland in 1965, and yet we can still feel its reverberations in present-day Estonia. This philosophical-moral tale has stood the unforgiving test of time and now arrives on the elektron.art stage for the very first time.