What’s wrong with you?!
Premieres: March 18-21, 2026, Sõltumatu Tantsu Lava
Zuga’s new performance takes on the difficulties of mental health – that invisible part of a person for which words, frameworks, and treatments exist, but which in experience is often larger than any explanation. Like a large and sensitive animal, it lives in our home, in our room, under our blanket, in our head. What does it want from us? What does it need? What’s wrong with it?
Young people have on their shoulders every day: war, climate, daily politics, changing schools, parents’ divorce, and annoying older brothers. That’s already enough. It’s even more than enough. But no, let’s add the attention economy, algorithms demanding extreme viewpoints, and bot armies spreading misinformation. So why, being aware of all this themselves, do adults still ask young people: “What’s wrong with you?”
The performance “What’s wrong with you?” is created in collaboration with mental health advocate Peaasi.ee. Before the creation process, Zuga visited schools to explore the topic with young people and completed mental health first aid training.
Young people’s minds seem completely peculiar and unique to adults. Everything that surrounds young people seems either very big or too small; either very good or terribly bad or just pointless. Adults scratch their heads in confusion, some of the more diligent ones have locked themselves in laboratories to finally figure out how a young person’s brain works. They describe their discoveries something like this: imagine you open the case of a fully functioning computer; you see wires whose plugs are all connected somewhere; you close your eyes and pull out some wires so that they are no longer connected, and pull out some wires so that one end is still connected to the computer. Imagine that there are millions of these connections and imagine that most are either completely or partially disconnected. Now close your eyes and start putting these millions of connections back together, hoping that it might work.
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