SPY GIRLS

Performances

Gallery

Media

Program

Parties

Director

Magda Szpecht (Poola)
Playwright

Olga Drygas (Poola)
Directors assistent

Michał Rogulski (Poola)
Composer

Krzysztof Kaliski (Poola)
LIGHTING AND VIDEO ARTIST

Mikk-Mait Kivi
Stage designer

Johannes Valdma
VIDEOGRAPHER

Janar Hakk
Sound technician

Raido Linkmann
STAGE MANAGER

Marion Tammet
COSTUME ARTIST

Sirli Pohlak
Producer

Krista Tramberg/Helen Maandi
Subtitler

Triin Pohlak/Laura Romanova

Actors

Mad Matrixx, Cyber Shadow, Void Vigilante

We live in a world where the sense of security is merely an illusion. Spy girls are exploiting human weaknesses and finding technical loopholes to get the upper hand in this world full of conflict. “Spy Girls” is a combination of investigative journalism, cyber activism and performing arts. Our actors work undercover in social media as beautiful young women to catfish Russian soldiers. They are trying to get to know the foe’s worldview, motivations, personal stories, and, most importantly, their objectives and location. They don’t use violence. They are holding space. To stay safe, they will need a multi-layered lie to do so.

In these radical times, hostilities have become a ripe environment for misinformation and disinformation to flourish. While secrets once conferred a huge advantage today open-source information increasingly does. Intelligence used to be a race for insight where great powers, especially ones connected to government agencies, were the only ones with the capabilities to access secrets. Now everyone is racing for insight and the Internet gives them tools to do it. Secrets still matter, but whoever can harness all this data better and faster will win.

How far can one go in carrying out an online investigation? Where to get rules of procedure in a world where the only rule is no rules? How to deal with the consequences and what would be considered a failure?
And… what should we really know about people we know nothing about?

The play contains smoke, strobe lights, cursing and disturbing visual material.

SPY GIRLS is in Estonian with English and Russian subtitles. The play is for mature audiences.

Premiere: 09.02. 2024 Vaba Lava Narva Theatre

Duration: 1h 30 min

Photographer: Ilja Smirnov