After a ten-year break, Priit Võigemast is once again directing at Tallinn City Theatre. Instead of choosing something ready-made, Võigemast wanted to devise a play with the ensemble. “The Great Flood” is a domestic comedy based on sketches that examine our most mundane, yet at the same time our biggest problems. How to create a real home with the right feeling, and how not to let our dreams go down the drain with the bathwater while drowning in everyday life?

Director Priit Võigemast: “We all start with hope. We dream of love, happiness, a career, children, and peace, but unexpectedly, we find ourselves buried under a huge layer of everyday life. We struggle struggle to stay afloat, forgetting what it all started with. Some cope with this better than others, some break down. Of course, it sounds tragic, but I also like to see the comic potential here. In this production, we have sought out familiar everyday moments. We have condensed them, stretched them, mixed them up, and amplified them. We have tried to figure out why this daily emptiness is so suffocating.”