The night sings its songs

“I can't take it any longer...” — this is how the play begins. It comes back again and again, like a chorus, like an echo that does not give peace. It is repeated by the main character — a young married woman, but it sounds in all of us. Because each of us knows that moment when the silence in the house begins to sound too loud, and the other person's gaze becomes unbearable.

Jon Fosse unleashes the unhurried movement of events to explore our boundaries—not just of endurance and mental resilience, but those that separate us from one another. Who appointed them? Who divided us? Can they be crossed? Following the short, as if half-word dialogues between the characters, it is worth asking ourselves these questions, looking in what they say for reflex, almost subconscious reactions that are not alien to us.

Boundaries are something natural and necessary, they give us a sense of security, they constitute a framework within which we can develop, but their nature is also to LIMIT, to enclose the individual in a social role — the pose of a loser or a successful person. And not only do others — family, friends, work colleagues, but also ourselves. Boundaries give us a form, a shape in which we can breathe. But over time they become a cage. We cling to them out of habit, out of fear, out of the hope that the known will protect us from the unknown. And yet they are the ones that most often separate us from each other — silently, imperceptibly, in daily rituals, in sentences repeated thoughtlessly, in gestures that were supposed to signify closeness, and that meant only routine.

Fosse is not looking for the guilty. He does not separate his characters into good and bad. It allows them to speak and be silent, it allows them to be halfway — just as we are all half way to each other. Because talkativeness and silence can be the same thing — a way to not touch the pain we carry inside. However, the Norwegian Nobel laureate does not add anything forcefully, he only tries in a subtle way to throw a beam of light into those places where we hide too deeply and too tightly from the environment and from which we are unable to get out on our own.

Based on the drama of the Norwegian Nobel laureate Jon Fosse, the play was under the honorary patronage of the Embassy of the Kingdom of Norway. It is an honor that adds exceptional prestige to the venture and underlines its closeness to the tradition of Norwegian art.

The license for the performance of the work was issued by the AdiT Drama and Theater Agency.

The performance will take place in a unique space — viewers and actors will meet directly on stage. An intimate audience built on the large stage of the theater will create an intimate, unique atmosphere of the meeting.

We kindly inform you that due to the peculiarities of the layout of the stage, late people will not be able to participate in the performance. In addition, we note that stairs lead to the audience.