COMMON LIFE

Once we are lifeless, we aren’t conscious of our loss of life – it solely hurts different folks. The identical may be mentioned if you’re silly – it solely causes ache to these round you.

The musical present “Silly Life” is a gathering of two iconic cabaret teams – the Ukrainian “Dakh Daughters” and the British “The Tiger Lillies” – with the brightest actresses on the Dale Theatre. At a time when humanity is shaken by evil, it’s silly to show away from the uncomfortable and painful, so it’s essential to chuckle at how silly life is to the bone, black and fully sincere. Within the type of a visible spectacle, in three totally different languages ​​- Latvian, Ukrainian and English, the artists seek for solutions to the questions of freedom and democracy, shaking the air of the stage with heretical humor and lethal irony .

“Dakh Daughters” is a famend Ukrainian music group based in 2012 in Kyiv. Since Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine in 2022, she has chosen France as her residence base, performing concert events in Europe and elsewhere. A post-rural, dusty combine, typically even 5 languages ​​and even Shakespeare’s sonnets, “Dakh Daughters” might be probably the most wonderful factor of Ukrainian music and performing arts.

The inventive director of the group is the Ukrainian theater director, pedagogue and playwright Vlads Troitsky, who in 1994 created the primary impartial theater in Ukraine – the theater “Dakh” – and later the artwork pageant probably the most superior interdisciplinary modern within the nation “GogolFest”. Each establishments are at the moment among the many most acknowledged artwork and inventive facilities in Europe.

British musical trio The Tiger Lillies have been on the forefront of the scene for over 30 years with their darkish, snarky and punk stage personas and witty songs. They’re impressed by virtually the whole lot – each Kurt Weill and the French singer, and the clowning style, and even a prostitute from London known as Lily, who wore a gown with animal bites. It is a brutal Berlin from the Weimar period 100 years in the past, which appears to be like like English.

The present is in Latvian, Ukrainian and English with subtitles in Latvian and English.

Taking part in:
Solomi Melnik, Ruslana Hazipova, Anna Ņikitina, Natalija Halaneviča, Nataša Šarpa (“Daughters of Dakh“); Tetjana Troicka (“OK” modern artwork heart); Martins Jacques, Adrian Stauts, Budi Butenop (“The Tiger Lillies“); Erika Eglija-Gravele, Ilze Ķuzule-Skrastiņa, Ieva Segliņa (Effective Arts Theatre).

Director, Playwright – Vlad Troitskylighting artist – Asthiks Hrihorjansvideo artist – Maria Yakovenkosound engineer – Simon Offret

Venture Keeper – Andrew Palatnyadministration “Dakh Lady” – Irina Horbanaadministration “GOGOLFEST” – Anna Basova“The Tiger Lillies” restore – Martin Lača, Tim Waithedeschallenge coordinator – Victoria Fedorivaproducers – pageant of up to date arts “GOGOLFEST” (Pageant of Up to date Arts GOGOLFEST, Ukraine), Dailes teatris (Latvia)