Molemmat kuurot: Ilveily yhdessä näytöksessä

In a modest drawing‑room that opens onto a quiet garden, the play begins with Engla, a restless young woman, leafing through a book she finds unsatisfying. Her servant Petter arrives with a letter, and the two exchange weary banter about the absent father, Tarkia, who has been deaf for three years. The cramped space is filled with small details—a lamp, a vase of four‑day‑old flowers, a nervous collection of rifles—that hint at both domestic routine and underlying tension.

Engla’s loneliness drives her to cling to the few letters that arrive, while Petter, hired for his high voice, spends his day talking endlessly to the deaf master, a task he resents yet cannot abandon. Their dialogue reveals a household caught between silence and forced chatter, with a hint of mysterious correspondence that promises further intrigue. Listeners are invited to feel the delicate balance of yearning, duty, and the strange humor that arises when words become both a comfort and a burden.