Elina Masing & TÜVKA Performing Arts Graduating Class: Replica

People often feel that they are talented, special and wonderful. Unfortunately, it often happens that there is no place in the world where this potential can be realised. What happens when our passion finds no outlet or reception? What happens when things don’t go the way we want? This feeling is the starting point for this process. For the first time, I want to rely on a script I have written myself. I am interested in resistance, spitefulness and hostility as symptoms of bitterness. What happens in a space when these feelings are not hidden, but consciously kept visible? It’s time to pull yourself together. Either you stop fooling yourself and admit that not everything happens because of circumstances: because of your childhood, your uncle, capitalism or God. Or you end this story on a sad note, step away from your dreams, and happy, bitter, bitter slowly turns into rigid bitterness.

Elina Masing’s journey began at Tallinn Ballet School, where life was linear and uncompromising. In her final year, she realised the limitations of this field and found freedom of expression instead in performing arts. Her university years were the complete opposite of what came before: she shaved her head and peed into a jar onstage. She also created the musical alter ego Valge Tüdruk and began acting. In the years since graduating, Masing has continued to explore different fields, choosing the form to suit the content. She is engaged in activism and challenging entrenched rules, and lately has become increasingly interested in enjoying the creative process and the work itself. She recently lived in Portugal and is now studying music production in the Netherlands.

Director and composer: Elina Masing
Dramaturg: Marko Raat
Lighting designer: Karmi Pikkma
Art and costume: Karmel Kibena
Performers: Anette Merisalu, Emma Lumi, Gregori Johannes Nõmm, Heleriin Lass, Helery Pikk, Iris Rämmeld, Jens-Patrik Rand, Jenss Lootus, Jete Liisa Kiik, Kasper Sebastian Silla, Leonhard Sass Taalmaa, Margot Lehtsalu, Nurdinbek Madaminov, Polina Kryuchkova, Saara Kaljujärv