Näytät vieraalta rakas
"I'll wail, as you put it, after all the arrangements have been made."
"In this family nothing's ever arranged, so don't let that stop you.”
A family is waiting at the airport for the body of their hero, coming home from Afghanistan. The airplane flies into a flock of birds and is delayed. Stuck in a glassed-in waiting room, with time stopped, the old masks begin to fall, and what was familiar suddenly begins to feel very strange. When the coffin finally arrives, it becomes clear that Harri the peacekeeper has died in murky circumstances, having been involved in human trafficking.
This dark, no-holds-barred comedy deals with the moment when the bottom suddenly falls out of life, and everything we believed in turns out to be an illusion. Packed in together, the characters are forced to look at themselves and each other from a new perspective, and are forced to take responsibility for their own fleeting lives. Truths, accusations, and confessions ricochet from one side of the room to the other, as sorrow mingles with stubborn defiance and bitter laughter at the world.
The play has been translated into English, and parts into Slovakian.
