Own project
Some letters are never delivered. Yet they continue to exist within those who keep waiting.
Poshtomat is a physical theatre performance exploring memory, absence, and the invisible connections that remain between people separated by war.
Set within the familiar space of a post office, the performance intertwines six human stories. A place usually associated with everyday routines gradually transforms into a space of waiting, remembrance, hope, and unanswered questions. Letters become more than messages — they become vessels of memory, carrying words that were never spoken, received, or answered.
Through movement, physical theatre, and visual imagery, Poshtomat reflects on those who continue to wait: for news, for reunion, for a voice, or simply for certainty. Rather than focusing on a single narrative, the performance creates a collective portrait of lives interrupted by war and connected through fragile acts of remembrance.
The work invites the audience to consider communication not only as an exchange of words, but as an emotional space where presence and absence coexist.
A letter is never only paper.
It carries hope.
Fear.
Silence.
Sometimes it arrives.
Sometimes it never does.
A post office is usually a place people pass through.
In Poshtomat, it becomes a place where time slows down.
Where memories wait alongside parcels.
Where absence becomes tangible.
Six stories unfold within a shared space.
They intersect without fully meeting, revealing lives shaped by loss, longing, resilience, and hope.
The performance does not seek to reconstruct reality.
Instead, it asks what remains when words can no longer reach the people for whom they were written.
