“Spy Girls” / How quickly would you trust a stranger?
“Spy Girls” / How quickly would you trust a stranger?
Premiere: 09.02. 2024 Vaba Lava Narva Theatre
Premiere in Poland: December 5, 2025, 7:00 PM / Perceptions. New Forms of Art
The actors’ identities are hidden and they are only known by their hacker name. Welcome to the stage Mad Matrixx, Cyber Shadow and 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 worked undercover for three months as beautiful young women. They opened up fake accounts on a Russian social media site called VKontakte, joined their dating feature Znakomstva and matched with men in uniforms. They catfished soldiers to find out the Russian army’s positions and weaponry.
How far can one go in carrying out an online investigation? Where lies the line of ethics? 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?
DIRECTED BY
Magda Szpecht (Poland)
PLAYWRIGHT
Olga Drygas (Poland)
DIRECTORS ASSISTENT
Michał Rogulski (Poland)
COMPOSER
Krzysztof Kaliski (Poland)
LIGHTING AND VIDEO ARTIST
Mikk-Mait Kivi (Estonia)
STAGE DESIGNER
Johannes Valdma (Estonia)
SOUND TECHNICIAN
Raido Linkmann (Estonia)
STAGE MANAGER
Marion Tammet (Estonia)
COSTUME ARTIST
Sirli Pohlak (Estonia)
PRODUCER
Krista Tramberg/Helen Maandi (Estonia)
TW! The play contains smoke, strobe lights, cursing and disturbing visual material. The play is for mature audiences.
The performance “Spy Girls” is presented in English, with Polish subtitles.
Venue: Teatr Stary in Lublin, ul. Jezuicka 18
Date: December 5, 2025, 7:00 PM
Duration: 1h 30 min
