NIGHTINGALES OF KREML

This story is not only about Estonian singer Jaak Joala, who was famous across the Soviet Union. It is a generalisation of a whole Pleiad of Estonian musicians – the so-called nightingales of Kreml – who kept the Soviet entertainment industy running and enjoyed their fame.

PERFORMANCES in August 2019:
14+16+17+19+20+21+23+24+25+27+28 August in Kreenholm Manufacturing Company (Joala 21)

Tickets are available at Piletilevi

All performances are in Estonian with English and Russian subtitles.

Before the performance, please review the visitors memo.

Group orders:
Kadi Rutens
kadi@uusteater.ee
+372 58 003 458

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On the days of performances theatre buses are organized to the performance and back by Lux Charter.
Tickets are sold separately at Piletilevi

Narva Museum offers guided tours to Kreenholm Textile Factory on August 14-25.
Tickets are sold separately at Piletilevi

For planning your trip to Ida-Virumaa, we recommend to visit idaviru.ee

Premiere

August 10th 2018
in Kreenholm Manufacturing Company,
in 21 Joala Street in Narva

On Stage

MÄRT AVANDI (Endla Theatre)
SAARA PIUS (Rakvere Theatre) or ADEELE SEPP (Ugala Theatre)
MARIA ANNUS (Vanemuine Theatre)
KATRIN PÄRN
JUSS HAASMA
TAMBET SELING (Endla Theatre)
JANEK JOOST
PRIIT STRANDBERG (Vanemuine Theatre)
ROBERT LINNA

Band

LEXSOUL DANCEMACHINE:
ROBERT LINNA - vocals
MARTIN LAKSBERG - bass guitar
JÜRGEN KÜTNER - guitar
CASPAR SALO - drums & percussions
KRISTEN KÜTNER - claviers & guitar
JOONAS MATTIAS SARAPUU - claviers

Dancers

ALEKSEI GARANIN, ALEKSEI KOLOTKOV, ALEKSEI KUPAVÕH, ALEKSEI ŽAVORONKOV, ALINA KORKIAINEN, ALINA OVTŠINIKOVA, ANDREI BONDAREV, ANNA NIKOLAEVA, ANŽELIKA SHTICALOV, ANTON TSISTODELOV, DANIEL JEFIMOV, DIANA TRIFONOVA, ERIK PERTSEV, GENNADY DRYBALOV, GEORGI CHIVIL, IVAN DMITRIJEV, JULIA KORNÕŠEVA, KATRIN NOORKÕIV, MARGARITA MARGARYAN, MARTIN NUSTONEN, SERAFIMA KOLODKIN, SVETLANA TITOVA

Children

DAVID NAYDIS, ELINA METSMA, EMILI PARTS, GERTRUD RANDE, IVAN PIDVYSOTSKIY, KAILI LITITŠEVSKI, KRIS LINDER, KRISTOFER KÜTT, KRISTOFER VIRKUS, NASTJA PIDVYSOTSKIY, RINGA PALMISTE PIDVYSOTSKIY, ANDREI ZUBOVSKI, DAVID NAYDIS, EMILI PARTS, GERTRUD RANDE, KAILI LITIŠEVSKI, KRIS LINDER, KRISTOFER KÜTT, KRISTOFER VIRKUS, RINGA PALMISTE

Transporters

AVO ANNI, EPP PEEDUMÄE, JAANUS PÄHN, KRISTJAN KÄKKI

Drivers

JAANUS PÄHN, KRISTJAN KÄKKI

Director

ROBERT ANNUS

(Estonian Drama Theatre)

Set Director

VILJAR POHHOMOV (ERM)

Technical Director

TAAVI TOOM

Producers

MAARJA MÄND and MARIKA GOLDMAN

PR

MARIE KLIIMAN and MARIKA GOLDMAN

Ticket Manager
KADI RUTENS

Local Help

PIIA TAMM

Sound Technicians

MÄRT KIHO, IVAR PILVAR ja HANNES EINPAUL

Lighting Technicians

RENE LIIVAMÄGI, TIMO TALI, MERILI LAUR, MAGNUS VALGRE, ROLAND LÕHMUS

Video Technician

AHTO PALMRE

Make-up Artists

KERSTI NIGLAS, SANDRA RÄTSEP-KIRSS

Dressers and Props Specialists

EPP PEEDUMÄE, KERLI JÕGI, ERE KAMA, MARIS PLADO, SASKIA REINTAM

Carpark Director

JAANUS PÄHN

Stage Technicians

TAAVI TOOM, JAANUS PÄHN, AVO ANNI, HEIGO AADLA, VERNER LIIV, MAGNUS VALGRE, IVAR PILVAR, HANNES EINPAUL

Manager of Dancers

ANŽELIKA SHTICALOV

Stage Manager

MAARJA MÄND

Right here in Estonia, in the far-away city of Narva, you will find Joala Street, where the Kreenholm Manufacturing Company once used to operate. Here, between Estonia and Russia, in the dried up riverbed, is an island, on the both sides of which the river of forgetting – Narva waterfall – flows twice a year.

This factory is the best place to tell the story of the thunderous music industry of the USSR and the controversial fate of its most brilliant star – Jaak Joala. It is the best place to hear the immortal songs by Joala and admire the rhythms of the band "Radar".

However, this story is not simply about Joala. It is a generalisation of a whole Pleiad of Estonian musicians – the so-called nightingales of Kreml – who made sure that the entertainment industry survived in the Soviet Union and enjoyed their fame.

This is a story about fame, sorrow and tedium.

This is a story about Jaak Joala through the focal points of his career, from a young band leader to the Soviet superstar and the designer of musical landscape in Estonia.
This is a story about the need for fame and the ability to deal with it.
This is a story about Jaak Joala through the lyrics of the songs he sang.

The center of the story is a day in the life of Jaak Joala in the year of 1987, just a few years before leaving the grand stage. On that day he gives 7 performances in an unknown Soviet town. The repertoire as well as most of the audience is the same throughout the concerts.

Even though everything takes place in one day, in his thoughts and memories he manages to travel to past and future to find answers to questions such as – why am I on this stage right now? What is it that I do here? What song is this? How many concerts have I already given? Is this the fame that I dreamed of?