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Past perfect

As long as I can remember, I have always drank Aperol Spritz during warm nights. Many of the most meaningful conversations or the most memorable encounters with other people in a corner of some park, in some festival centre or at a friend’s place have been accompanied by the orangish mixture of this aperitive, the sparkling wine and fizzy water. How did it start, I cannot remember. Maybe I liked its taste. Maybe there was something in its color – the colorful shimmering was not too obtrusive and vain, but enough kitschy to be cool. The alcohol in it never worked like a hammer, but relaxed the muscles and brought you a heavy undisturbed sleep at night.

But for a long time already, I do not like the taste of Aperol Spritz anymore. It is way too sweet and bland at the same time. Its color has become annoying and the social contacts it helps to create are no longer exclusive, because everybody is drinking it now. The process of mixing it together is tedious and boring, the ingredients and the proportions are never changed, nothing in its preparation is left for the imagination – one and the same mixture repeats itself in my class, unchanged over and over again.

And yet when the moment comes, I ask the barman or a friend to make me an Aperol Spritz and then I sit on some suburban balcony coquetting with a glass of orange liquid in my hand. The evenings are warm and remind me of many other warm nights before. Sometimes it rains. I stir the crystal clear cocktail decorated with a slice of orange and take some sips. Then observing the stripped ice cubes slowly, but irreversibly melt.
(Mart Kangro, born 1952)

“PAST PERFECT” is all about remembering and amnesia which always walk hand in hand. What do we decide to remember and what to forget? Are we that what we remember or what we have decided not to? Does historical memory exist? What about the social one? What is it after all that remembers something? What is the story told by this scratch? By this smell? This bomb hole?

Mart Kangro is a freelance performance artist, choreographer and director. He focuses on the meaningfulness of the human body in theatre as semiotic space-time, and on existential issues of stage situation.
His productions, of which many have come about in the Kanuti Gildi SAAL, have been performed at major festivals across Europe. In recent years, he has produced works where he himself is not cast in theaters such as NO99, Von Krahl Theatre in Tallinn and Theatre of Nations in Moscow.

Mart Kangro

Author, on stage

Eero Epner, Mart Kangro

Dramaturgy

Kalle Tikas

Sound design

Kalle Tikas, Henry Kasch

Light design and technical solutions

Anu Vahtra

Space consultant

75'

Duration

14.10.2019, Kanuti Gildi SAAL

Premiere

Kanuti Gildi SAAL, Moving in November

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