Director Māra Ķimele and actor Leonīds Lencs will receive the “Players’ Night 2020” award for lifetime contribution to theater art | The news

Riga, October 30, LETA. Director Māra Ķimele and actor Leonīds Lencs will receive the “Players ‘Night 2020” award for a lifetime contribution to theater art, Richard Vorobjovs, a representative of the Latvian Theater Employees’ Union, informed LETA.

On the birthday of Eduards Smiļģis, co-founder of Daile Theater and theater art reformer, on November 23, on LTV1 live at 21.10, you will be able to watch the Annual Award at the Theater “Night of Players” from Liepāja. The awards will be presented for the 27th time this year.

Writing about Ķimelis, theater scientist Ieva Struka emphasized that her uniqueness is formed by belonging to a family. Her grandfather is Jūlijs Lācis, a writer, journalist and politician, her grandmother – director Anna Lācis, who knew how to stage not only performances, but also her life. Her father is the actor Vilis Ķimelis, her mother – theater worker Dagmāra Ķimele. Her son Pēteris Ķimelis is an artist.

In Struka’s opinion, Ķimele is one of the still rare theater directors who has studied the profession in a school rich in traditions outside Latvia with an outstanding master Anatoly Efros. Her path to directing has not been through a successful or less successful acting career, she immediately goes to school to study directing in Moscow. After returning to Latvia, she has worked in her profession throughout her life, which is not so obvious, because her creative spirit, ability to work and energy, sensitivity to world events and new winds in the theater world do not stay long.

Struka emphasized that Ķimele is an excellent teacher, and she has also done this work throughout her life. Her first students today seem to be with a teacher for one year, but she is still at the Latvian Academy of Culture and working with young people. In addition, throughout her life, Ķimele has combined a deeply Latvian sense of the world with universal values ​​and qualities in art, with the breath of the world given to her by her own school and the taste of freedom from the time of her flower children in the mid-1960s.

The theater scientist emphasized that the director is a woman with a seizure, which will put an inactive actor in place, and at the same time fragile. She will notice every detail of the relationship, but she is just as sensitive to what is happening in the big world. It is clear that her heightened perception of the world is not always comfortable for others, but – at least it is comfortable for herself. But that’s the only way art is born, Struka pointed out.

Theater critic and theater scientist Edite Tishheizer has stated that Mikhail Chekhov’s Riga Russian Theater actor Leonid Lenz (1947) is one of those cultural people who literally paves the bridge of spirituality, understanding and empathy between people and nations.

“Born in Siberia, where his parents met during the deportation, Lencs has been rooted in the land of Latvia for many generations. With a deep understanding of different cultures and realms, Lencs has created images that affect everyone – because they are first and foremost complex, contradictory and interesting human beings. , “stressed Tishheiser.

The theater scientist noticed that the nature of Lenz’s actor successfully combined charisma and courage, sensitivity and mind. He studied at the Faculty of Theater of the Latvian State Conservatory in the course of Arkady Kaca. He has worked with directors of various artistic principles, starting with contemporary theater classics Pēteris Steins, Oļģerts Kroders, Roman Kozaks and ending with much younger generations of directing, represented by Viesturs Kairišs and Elmārs Senņovs.

“Because it is clear that Lenz’s iron professionalism will not disappoint, he will find his personal key and spiritual fulfillment for any directing task. It is the spiritual dimension, the ethical core, that has often placed his characters at the center of the show, although Lenz is never a dignified and sensitive partner. highlighted his hero above the others, “said Tishheiser.

The theater critic noted that the wandering centerpiece of the production was Lenz’s wanderer Antonio in “Let’s Curse on Both Your Families”, as well as the high-born Kent Shakespeare’s “King Lira”, Dr. Dorn Chekhov’s “Seagull” and Kurt Strindberg’s “Dance of Death”.

“The spine and masculine stance catch the eye in Lenz ‘s acting, but behind the strength of his characters are often sensed sensitivity, confusion, weakness. Whoever has seen, will not forget how Indran’ s father freezes, realizing not only his resentment, but also the depth of his guilt. “Lenz is one of those talents who is destined to influence people and maybe even change them for the better,” Tishheiser emphasized.

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