Discover the Legends of Tallinn

A unique project recently came to Tallinn and has become quite popular. The one of a kind Tallinn Legends is a different kind of theatre experience where each set not only moves and plays with light and colour, but sound as well.

The immersive theatre project took three years to put together and build. Screen writers and historians, producers and artists, designers and decorators, robot engineers, and lighting and sound specialists were all called in on the project. Twenty five tonnes of decorations, 2000 lamps, 16 km of cables, 120 decibels of sound, and one million euros is what it took to complete.

Tallinn Legends is set in a 12-13th century cellar in the Old Town, where there was once a prison. The creators sure found the appropriate place to recount medieval tales of fears and misgivings in an underground theatre, where history and legend meet.

The experience is brilliant and mysterious. We learned that there were both dark and light periods, life didn’t cost anything and death meant nothing; why virgin girls were walled into towers and how 100 years ago St. Olav’s church was the tallest building in northern Europe and how it burned many times. Legends of mermaids and hidden marzipan recipes, and how the city authorities had cut off the Baron’s majestic head, because he murdered his peasants, who became city dwellers are just some of the fascinating and haunting tales you will hear told by talented actors.Performances take place in English, Russian, Estonian, Finnish, and starting in May in German and Chinese as well.

We were let in on one final secret, that in December Tallinn Legends will also start city tours to show the birthplace of some of the city’s legends, followed by a theatre attraction tour.

Location

Tallinn Legends
Kullasseppa 7, Тallinn Old Town 
tallinnlegends.com/est

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TEXT KRISTINA LUPP, ALEKSANDR IVANOV, PHOTOS ANDREI CHERTKOV

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