Is It Possible To Go Back Into Our Past? Is it possible to prevent the past from catching up with you and invading your carefully constructed ideal present? Is it possible for the past and the present to collide and not destroy each other? The attempts to find answers to these questions inspired A. Špilevojas, the creator of Bagadelnia and On the Road, to delve into The Mist, where seeing the world is much more difficult than feeling it.
The Mist invites the audience to experience how differently the same people, their words and deeds can be perceived. The play explores the story of a young woman called Ema. After a lifetime of blows and great disappointment, Ema returns to visit her childhood home, where she remembers herself happy and confident about tomorrow. But a family she doesn't know has been living there for some time, and of course they don't welcome Ema at all. Ema meets them and finds herself in her childhood room. When she finally calms down and feels good, she can't leave. But how to stay in this safe world of the past and childhood forever? And what about the family who have no desire to accommodate this strange, unpredictable visitor in their cosy home, who has brought confusion, coldness and a growing sense of danger into their world?
A. Spilevoy: "We have murdered God!", proclaimed the German philosopher F. Nietzsche more than a hundred years ago. It just seems that to this day we have never figured out how to go on living without Him. We tried in good faith to create universal ideologies, but were horrified by the concentration camps and deportations; we tried to make sense of scientific progress, but were reduced to ashes by the horrific explosion of the atomic bomb; we tried to ride the merry-go-round of buying and consuming, but came to our senses when we saw that we were ending up sinking the planet into a plastic dump. But wait!", will say someone who sees human history in a different light. Maybe it's not what you're trying to make it out to be? Maybe this is all just the last convulsions of the Faith? Maybe we will soon have a safe, clear, rational world where darkness, despair, inequality, injustice, and even death have no place? Could there really be more than one, two, three or a million points of view on what our world looks like and what we look like in it?
