Seven new productions and two concerts: this is the theater’s plan to please its loyal audience.
The season starts with good feelings, admits actress Laura Jeruma. She currently she is working for the main director of the theater Dmitry Petrenko, preparing the first new production “Yen”.
“It’s my first real job with young people who aren’t young anymore, so I’m really enjoying the process. We started working, we’re rehearsing in the Small Room, there is already such a break-in. Only positive feelings! last year, the young people worked together with the old ones, they rubbed their shoulders, so it’s very good, “he says.
The acting course held at Liepāja University entered the theater as professionals last season. Valts Skuja and Artūrs Irbe are some of those young people who are no longer very young. “It’s definitely different from last year,” concluded Valts.
“I understand more what’s going on, at least a little. Less stress, because in the first season it all happened very quickly, I felt everything more sensitively. Now I can breathe a little when I understand how the process works.
I have started a new production, which will be the first of this season, it’s nice to stay and not stop, move on. “Arthur is said to have rested well on vacation and will play the role of Ray in the” Linen Beauty Queen “in the opening. of the season, with which he finished the previous season. “The circle closes, the next circle begins,” says the actor.
Theater director Herbert Laukštein describes the special feeling of the beginning of a new act as a tremolo. “There’s an idiot who messed up the whole world. God, give it a short life, that’s the only thing I can want, “he says.
The director describes the Liepaja theater’s plans for the season as good and ambitious. “As in the creative process, you should never be afraid of failure, otherwise it’s just production.
In connection with the approach of winter and the unpredictability of bills both at the theater and at home, everyone must change their habits and positions towards the common and private space to survive.
This is the main task right now, “he points out.
The director would be very happy if someone could tell how the theater can save, for example, on electricity costs. “We are evaluating all the options, but none are acceptable. There are stock prices, there are the starting times of traditional fairs, when all the spotlights, all the equipment must be on. This coincides with the so-called peak hours. We will no longer show the show after midnight, when the price of electricity is the lowest, “says H. Laukštein.
The theater is said to be concerned that people will attend the shows less often. “When you receive the invoices and have to agree on the primary and secondary expenses, then it will be clearer what is happening. We are all in the same garden: it is not an industry, a city, but the whole of Europe, which has built its civilization and its comfort through cooperation between countries. Now it has been demolished, “admits the theater manager.
