The play tells about several generations, and it is technically suitable for the new actors and main cast that have just arrived at the Valmiera Theater. “Of course, it will also be very interesting for the audience, because the story is about a family. Although the plot takes place in Norway, the theme is close everywhere.” A young woman who is expecting a child returns with her boyfriend to her parents’ home, where talking to each other almost doesn’t happen anymore and mutual relations have become ritualistic and predictable gestures. In this family, being alone is unbearable, but being together is unbearable.
“A play with painful content, according to the genre it can be classified as a family drama. The problem is the inability to name things, because a thing named by a name begins to exist and affect our lives. An unnamed, unspoken problem is not a problem. A burning topic in our everyday life. Above all, endless crave intimacy. But what if environment and upbringing have led you to touch illiteracy?” asks Reinis Suhanovs rhetorically and expresses the hope that after the show emotions would be released and people would want to hug each other and want to talk.
Reini Suhanov has serious thoughts about not talking in the family, not naming emotions, because this situation is emotionally very familiar in many relationships between adult children and parents. He reminds that recently you could watch a program on Latvian Television Forbidden technique on demographic issues. The director emphasizes the relevance of the play also in the context of war. “What is the environment that the child enters, what is the ideal family that one would like, and what is the reality that does not correspond to fiction?” he generalizes the themes touched on in the play.
Costume designer Līga Zepa, lighting designer Oskars Pauliņš also worked on the show, Ieva Estere Barkāne, Klinta Reinholde, Sandis Runge, Krišjānis Salminņš, Krišjānis Strods, Elīna Vāne are acting in the roles.
With this performance, a new cultural space is opened in Valmiera fireplace, and Reinis Suhanovs does not hide his joy: “I have been involved in making this boiler house a cultural place. By creating a new bio-renewable wood chip boiler house, a large, spacious space was freed up in the very center of the city. It is one of the modern trends – industrial spaces are inhabited, cultural places are created in them. It’s happening in both New York and Shanghai.”
The nearest performances are on January 20, 21, 22.
