Baar Amsterdam - 29.11

A production featuring the music of Jacques Brel — There are few places that remain on the world’s map. Enduring places where people meet, meet again, and find themselves anew. It is better when wine flows in these places, music flows, and tender words flow that move the soul with a searing intensity. “Baar Amsterdam” is a place and a moment where Jacques Brel’s world, with its bright resonance, is bound together with the question of what one must live through and experience for the beauty we embrace to be born. A pool of light. A microphone. A laureate with an axe-like face. “Don’t Leave Me,” he sings, with his soul laid bare and his face drenched in the sweat of exertion. Jacques Brel’s aim and focus was to tell stories whose core was always built on emotions. Brel made himself the direct conduit of his work, captivating people with word and song. He let his soul resonate with everything he knew and had felt. This production has the same aim: to take the audience on a journey to the outer reaches of the human soul, to touch the corners from which we are stitched together. But also to ask: would this stitching together exist at all without the opening up and external and internal burning of one artist, one person? The production moves from the light, exalted and sensuously moving into the profound and even irritating, and does not shy away from asking uncomfortable questions either — which underside is inevitable, and which justification is unjustifiable? The space of the production is a salon-like meeting place. The form of Brel’s songs themselves is sublimely theatrical. The main thing is that wine should flow in “Baar Amsterdamis.” On stage: Jarmo Reha, Jaak Lutsoja (accordion) and Aili Nael. Author and director: Jarmo Reha. Set and costume designers: Ulvi Tiit and Allan Appelberg. Dramaturgical assistance: Laur Kaunissaare. Lyric translator: Indrek Koff. Sound designer: Lauri Kaldoja. Lighting designer: Sasha Mirson. Premiere on 13 December 2025 at the Ekspeditsiooni studio in the Krulli building.