Murdja

MURDJA — Love Is a Force of Nature

On stage: Tiina Tauraite and Mattias Nurga (Vanemuine)
Director: Johan Elm

This is not merely a story of passion, but a story of human, catastrophic patterns. Because we cannot resist love. A middle-aged woman meets a young man in a hotel bar and begins taking him along on her business trips. A chance encounter quickly develops into a strange, passionate affair that raises ever more questions, while the world around them is being destroyed by the climate crisis. What does a person do when faced with something so much greater than themselves? When it is terrifying, yet irresistible?

Writer: Rose Lewenstein
Director and translator: Johan Elm
Set designer: Eugen Tamberg
Lighting designer: Léon Augustin Allik
Sound designer: Aleksandra Koel
Movement dramaturg: Anumai Raska
Intimacy coordinator: Kreet Maurer
Stage manager: Elis Listra (TÜVKA)
Producers: Ere Naat and Erki Laur

Premiere: 19 November 2025 at the Salme Kultuurikeskus black box.
The performance runs for 2 hours and 5 minutes, with no interval.

Supported by: Eesti Kultuurkapital, Go Hotel Shnelli, Nautimus