
Piret Jaaks
Writer and
Playwright

Piret Jaaks
Silver
R.A.A.A.M. Theatre
Premiered July 2026
Authors of the idea –
Karmen Mai Karus, Helo Kaplisnki, Iris Viru
Author – Piret Jaaks
Director – Elina Pähklimägi
Set designer – Iir Hermeliin
Composer – Tobias Tammearu
Producer – Karen Adler
Cast: Maria Annus, Riina Maidre, Juuli Lill, Aarne Soro
Historical play about three remarkable Estonian women – composer Miina Härma, poet Anna Haava, and singer Aino Tamm – and their lifelong friendship.

Piret Jaaks
Internal Climate
Vaba Lava Theatre Centre
Premiered August 2025
Author – Piret Jaaks
Director – Mari-Liis Lill
Stage designer – Nele Sooväli
Sound designer – Erik Mikussaar
Composer – Jarek Kasar
Lighting designer – Priidu Adlas
Producer – Serafima Kurvits
Cast: Henrik Kalmet, Riina Maidre, Elina Reinold, Kristjan Sarv
A documentary-fiction play combining real-life monologues with fictional storytelling, drawing on interviews with factory workers at the Soviet military factory “Baltijets” in Narva city.

Piret Jaaks
The End
Theatre Vanemuine
Premiered January 2024
Author – Piret Jaaks
Director – Marta Aliide Jakovski
Stage designer – Kristjan Suits
Composer – Ann Reimann
Video – Fidelia Regina Randmäe
Cast: Külliki Saldre, Karol Kuntsel, Lena Barbara Luhse, Kaarel Pogga, Reimo Sagor
A documentary-fiction play combining real-life monologues with fictional storytelling, drawing on interviews with chaplains, folklorists, and people at the end of their lives.

Vanessa Springora
Consent
Estonian Youth Theatre
Premiered April 2026
Author – Vanessa Springora
Translator – Anna Linda Varik
Dramaturge – Piret Jaaks
Director – Mari-Liis Lill
Set design – Kairi Mändla
Coreographer – Arolin Raudva
Composer – Lauri Kaldoja
Cast: Alice Siil, Taavi Tõnisson, Getter Meresmaa, Lee Trei, Mark Erik Savi
Based on Vanessa Springora’s autobiographical novel. The novel recounts her unequal relationship with a much older writer when she was a teenager and explores the lasting impact of that experience.

Piret Jaaks
Rites of Passage
Juozo Miltinio Drama Theatre in Lithuania
Premiered March 2026.
Author – Piret Jaaks
Director – Paulius Pinigis
Set design – Rūta Venskutė
Composer – Martynas Bialobžeskis
Video – Dinas Marcinkevičius
Light – Paulius Jakubėnas
Directors assistant – Sandra Juzėnienė
Cast: Giedrius Arlauskas, Dainius Jankauskas, Albinas Kėleris, Ieva Labanauskaitė, Rokas Pijus Misiūnas, Ieva Pakštytė, Urtė Povilauskaitė, Toma Razmislavičiūtė, Jolita Skukauskaitė, Donatas Želvys
A poignant play about grief, loss, and finding a way forward after the death of a child. Winner of first prize in the 2019 Estonian Playwriting Competition.

Piret Jaaks
Blue Eyed
Tallinn City Theatre
Premiered April 2026
Author – Piret Jaaks
Director – Marta Aliide Jakovski
Set design – Liisi Eelmaa
Composer – Lauri Dag Tüür
Video & light – Rommi Ruttas
Production assistant – Kristiina Jalasto-Kallas
Cast: Andero Ermel, Kristiin Räägel, Laurits Muru, Priit Pius
A documentary-fiction play combining real-life monologues with fictional storytelling, drawing on interviews with teachers, police officers, radicalisation prevention specialists, psychologists, and a sociologist.

Hanoh Levin
Krum
Tallinn City Theatre
Premiered February 2024
Author – Hanoh Levin
Translator – Margus Alver
Dramaturge – Piret Jaaks
Director – Marta Aliide Jakovski
Set design – Laura Pählapuu
Video – Epp Kubu
Light design – Emil Kallas
Coreographer – Tiina Mölder
Cast: Anne Reemann, Argo Aadli, Elisabet Reinsalu, Sandra Uusbrerg, Rain Simmul, Alo Kõrve, Epp Eespäev, Kristo Viiding, Maiken Pius, Indrek Sammul, Tõnn Lamp, Jan Ehrenberg
Spiced with humor, Krum is an existentialist absurdist play by Israel’s best-known playwright, Hanoh Levin.

Piret Jaaks
Queen of the Night
Theatre Nuutrum
Premiered July 2024
Author – Piret Jaaks
Director – Jaanus Nuutre
Set design – Jana Volke
Composer – Tobias Tammearu
Light design – Margus Ruhno
Directors assistant – Inge Kaseleht
Cast: Ülle Lichtfeldt, Miika Pihlak, Jaanis Valk
A play about the unexpected encounter between a former opera singer and a young social worker. A mysterious stranger, a forgotten past, and the fear of decline unfold into a humorous and tragic story about what remains of us when we are gone. Written in 2015, the play has been produced four times in Estonia and Finland.

Photo: Gabriela Liivamägi
Photo of the former production Rites of Passage, directed by Andres Noormets at Theatre Ugala, 2020.
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Rights of the Plays
For the rights of the plays please contact my agent Kirsten Simmo from Estonian Theatre Agency (kirsten @ teater.ee)