“Big theater businessman Juris Žagars and his friend
like Krišjānis Barons from the Stalin Prize laureate Smilģas Dailes Theater can already start preparing for the next big court case,” writes Alvis Hermanis, artistic director of the New Riga Theater (JRT), on social networks. On the evening of June 6, he dedicated harsh words to his colleagues.
Hermanis claims that the basis of their anger is the “buying” of young actors: “This time the plaintiffs will be JRT, Valmiera and Liepāja theaters, whose young actor-students, who have just received their education, they are currently brutally buying. At the moment, as far as we know, at least 12 new actors have already been approached.”
“Actors, of course, are not serfs and are free to choose to work where they are paid more. But in this case Dailes theater is a state-funded organization and this one squeamishness it is paid by taxpayers, who are mostly not Dailes theater viewers,” says Hermanis.
“But the most important thing is that JRT, Valmiera and Liepāja theaters have nurtured their young actors for many years, investing in them a huge amount of time, energy, heart and other resources, which you can try to calculate in numbers if you have a good will. In the last years, all mentioned theaters also paid salaries/scholarships to these students.”
As an example of similar cases, Hermanis mentions young hockey players: “The precedent is the young hockey players brought up by sports schools, who, when attracted to other clubs, always have to compensate for the work invested in them. This outcome in lawsuits is usually one. Because here we look not at the letter of the law, but at the spirit.”
It turns out that there are theaters in Latvia that create something themselves, and there are theaters that only know how to steal other people’s ideas, overbuy artists and ruffle other people’s feathers.
“The next time a fighter for ethical imperatives [Dailes
teātra mākslinieciskais direktors Viesturs] Kairish will publicly say something about morality, I recommend you remember what he is currently telling the young actors of JRT: “I don’t care how much you are paid at JRT, I will pay you more”, says Hermanis.
photo" style="background:#c5c7c9;top:auto"/>Alvis Hermanis, artistic director of the New Riga Theater. Photo: Zane Bitere/LETA
2023-06-07 04:36:25
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