Anete Krasovska: “I am still learning to control myself – to be silent is the greatest art. Obviously, we all have opinions, but should everyone always know your opinion? I am not sure.”
Photo: Karīna Miezāja
Aija Kaukule, “Culture Marks”, JSC “Latvijas Mediji”
Tomorrow, the dramatization of the writer Regina Ezera’s novel “Zemdega” directed by Dmitry Petrenko, staged last year, will finally reach the audience of the Daile Theater. A haunting and unusual story about a small town in Latvia, where the innocent attempt of two local teenagers to get closer starts a series of events that highlight the secrets of the inhabitants of the town, which have been hidden for years. In the role of a girl – the bright actress of Daile Theater ANETE KRASOVSKA.
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In the conversation on the eve of the premiere, Anete admits that despite the closed theater door, this has been the busiest theater season she remembers – and Anete has a wealth of theater experience, even though she is still almost the youngest actress at the Daile Theater.
Anete Krasovska has been playing on the theater stage since the child’s feet – already at the age of ten she played the role in the New Riga Theater in the play “Līze Luīze” staged by Māra Ķimele.
Along with the theater, the feeling of a television camera is also talentedly honed – the series “She Lies Better” was unthinkable for many years without the temperamental Mary played by Anete Krasovska – now the actress has said goodbye to her role and admits that she is playing in the theater with new breath.
– The season of postponed premieres is behind us – now they will have to be played. How did you survive this strange time in theater and life – with a plus or minus sign?
A. Krasovska: – In fact, no other season has been as intense as this one so far – role by role, show by show: “Zemdegas”, “Consent” (director Laura Groza), “Rhinoceros” (director Ildiko Gaspara), “Three Friends” (director Regnārs Vaivars) – in this respect, what has happened has a plus sign, for which I am grateful.
Unfortunately, the only performances that saw the audience last season were “Breath” and “Monster” (director Dmitry Petrenko. – UK). The minus sign, of course, should be drawn to the fact that I had not met the audience until the “Three Friends” now, in July.
The feeling is incomprehensible – you have to remember again what exactly the exchange of energy with the spectator really means, because for a long time a certain wheel rolled – performances only for colleagues, in principle – for no one.
I caught myself thinking that I don’t remember what it was like when I played twenty shows a month a couple of years ago, almost every night. Now, when I used to play the second act, I realize that sleep is coming. Admittedly, this time mixed the usual rhythm of the actor’s life.
– It seems to me that “Breath” was and is the embodiment of this unusual time in theater – you play together with your stage partner Karl Arnold Avots on the stage of the Great Hall without decorations, focusing only on acting and humanity.
– “Breath” is very dear to me. It is a show full of emotions. And it is very easy for me to play with Karl – he is a wonderful partner. A very sensitive show – you can’t “drag” it.
I can admit, it was a show that was a turning point in myself as well. I’ve always been very diligent in the theater, but it’s often very disturbing.
“Breath” was the first show where I literally started breathing on stage. I became much freer and more relaxed, and I am very happy about that. I will make at least one small promise about what I want to be as an actress in general – one who knows how to enjoy the process from the first to the last minute.
– Transition from a new actress to an experienced actress? From time to time, the directors play the roles of young people for you.
– I still count myself among the new actresses. If Kārlis Arnolds Avots had not entered the theater, I would still have been the youngest actress of the theater – now, unfortunately, he has deprived me of this title. (Laughs.) And it’s not just the young girl, there have been, for example, Blansh (“Passion Train”, 2018 – UK), but other “bigger” roles.
But, seriously, I don’t know what the limit is for becoming an actress. In general, if someone outside the theater asks me what I’m doing, I’ve never said in my life that I’m an actress. It seems to me such a huge name – actress! It creates awe.
– So what do you answer?
– That I work in the theater! If someone asks further, only then we get to the actress. I don’t know if I’ve achieved so much in my life to match the actress’ name. This awe will probably disappear over time. But I don’t know if it’s important at all. After all, I don’t have to prove anything to others.
– Theater is at the center of your life right now, isn’t it?
Theater is really most of what I do.
– How do you feel now at the Daile Theater with its new course? For example, the new procedure to play new productions with viewers before the premiere. (The Zemdegu rehearsal with spectators took place on August 3.)
– Of course, I feel a change in our theater. I can say that I am satisfied – I am happy with the work that is being given to me. In my opinion, this was a very difficult season for the young drivers. Considering what has happened in the world this year – hat off, Žagars and Kairišs have coped wonderfully.
In principle, we have not stopped, we have not slipped – all the time we keep ourselves in tone, ready so that we can resume at the usual pace.
And it’s wonderful that critics are now being invited to shows already played. It may confuse the audience and ourselves for a while, but we also met the audience for the first time in the rehearsals.
– The first stop is the dramatization of the novel “Zemdegas” – Lake Regina. Zemdegas is a word that is not really used today, many may not even know its meaning…
– Zemdegas means roasting under the topsoil. There is a similar process in people – some kind of roasting takes place inside, but from the outside it may not be noticed. And there is a lot about it in the show – about the ego that keeps us in check. We each have this ego to fight.
Regīna Ezera has written a wonderful novel – in it everyone has their own pain, which we often do not deal with due to our own selfishness – both in relationships and in ourselves. Most people do not realize how much our ego controls our thoughts, our actions.
I also learn to control this ego a little in my own life, but I think only a few learn it. Because it is not easy – it requires self-acceptance. It is difficult to hear yourself.
For me, for example, it is not an easy character and it is not easy to stop myself in the heat of a dispute, realizing that at this moment it is not Anete – my mind or heart – who is talking, but the ego.
It is a never-ending development.
– What is your experience with “Zemdegs” and Regina Lake?
– I remember it as compulsory literature in primary school. You may not understand most of it at that age, but all the information we store settles somewhere and can be brought out at the right time. This is, in my view, a very sad story. About how people can’t find a common language with others because of their ambitions. They cannot cope on their own. And these are problems that have always been and always will be, they have not arisen, for example, now, in times of war.
– You play Leldi, the daughter of a literature teacher – you can’t help but mention a young girl again…
– My father, played by Imants Strads, is the school principal. Lelde is such a slightly hairy teenager. But she, like everyone else in this show, strives to be understood. But in reality, in this story, everyone stays in their own cocoon, does not let others or themselves into it.
In general, Lelde is a nice, tidy girl who seeks parental understanding, but parents have their own problems. And it’s so familiar – parents often don’t hear children. And it’s all the sadder because it leaves imprints on you, on who you will be in your life as you grow up.
– Did you take anything from the teenage years with you in this role?
– I was crazy enough, so thank you to my parents, my mother (choreographer Inga Krasovska. – AK), who dealt with me. I don’t have children, so I can’t tell you the right way for parents to raise children, but I remember well what I felt at that age – what I wanted my parents to do differently.
However, Lelde is the final opposite to me – she is good, she will choose not to say more than to say – she will only speak when she is finally printed in the corner.
I’m always the opposite – with that in mind, it’s on the tongue. I am still learning to control myself – to be silent is the greatest art.
Obviously, we all have opinions, but should everyone always know your opinion? I am not sure.
– Director Dmitry Petrenko has said that the lake’s novel is easy to read and understand, but it is extremely difficult to bring it to life, it also requires a little different technique, a different existence on stage. Do you agree?
– I agree, this time our game is different. First, the show shifted from a small hall to a large one. Secondly, our game here is very fragile. Very gentle. It doesn’t require any exaggeration, nothing huge. Strength is in the nuances. Dmitry Petrenko works very finely. Everything that happens in the show is somehow imperceptible, but in the end you see that the show is put together like a puzzle or sneezed like a gentle spider web in one web, and here you have a big picture of two acts in your hand. The breath was just as fragile. Performances of this kind are very refreshing – at the level of other material senses.
– Understand, there is no single main weaver in this fabric, the main roles?
– We each pull a string here and make an overall drawing. There are the same roles here, we live in seemingly closed “bubbles”. For example, I do not meet many other actors in this show. My heroine has only her own family, here everyone lives in their cell – Ezera has written this work – like several seemingly unrelated stories. Only sometimes do they meet somewhere – the same thing happens in life.
In fact, we live alone – one is born and one dies. The biggest struggle is with yourself, because it is difficult to accept yourself as you are. Perhaps this very year, as it were, has made me think a lot about these things.
Every day we used to close our eyes with a lot.
Concert, shows, entertainment, friends… When it all stops, aids and decoys are off, you stay face to face with yourself. And this is the hardest.
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