Edgars Pujāts’ mono-performance “That’s All” will premiere at Liepāja Theater

This production is a kind of double invitation – both to the actor Mārtiņš Kalitas, who is the director of this show and also the author of the visual image, and to the actor Edgars Pujats, for whom this is his first mono, as well as one of the heaviest and most complex roles in his life.

The challenge is also a pandemic, due to which the premiere has been postponed several times, but finally the production will also meet the audience – the show “That’s All” will be available on November 16 and 17 in the small hall of Liepaja Theater in the concert hall “Big Amber”.

Performances are also planned as the season continues.

“That’s all” is a monologue about loneliness, which announces the intrigue of the play with the first sentence: “Now I will count to a thousand and…” The main character has had everything – success, fame, honor, freedom of choice and love affairs. So why does he feel so emptied internally? Why so lonely? Actor Edgars Pujāts will invite the audience to look inside to see if I live the life I want?

“While working on this show, I wanted to quit my job more than once. Both because the material of the play made it necessary to fight against internal contradictions and its demons, and because the mono-performance is a difficult and difficult test for the actor to be able or unable to do. Of course, there has been a lot of nerve consumption in preparation for the premiere for so long, and I really hope that I will finally be able to count up to a thousand together with the audience, trying to get to the real truth and meaning of life, ”says E. Pujāts about the work on the show.

So far, M. Kalita has directed several concert performances and award ceremonies, as well as is currently supplementing his knowledge by studying at the Latvian Academy of Culture – in the program “Audiovisual and Performing Arts”, but this is his first dramatic theater performance. “Edgar Pujat is an extremely strong actor who has long deserved such a role. It is a great honor for me to tell this story with him, ”he says of the show.

The light score for the show was created by Mārtiņš Feldmanis, and the play was translated from German by Ingus Liniņš.

The theater reminds that it is possible to visit the theater in person only for those spectators who have been vaccinated against Covid-19, as well as for those spectators who have become ill with Covid-19. Upon arrival at the theater, spectators will be required to present an entrance ticket with a valid passport or ID card and a Covid-19 certificate. The entrance ticket will be valid only together with the said certificate and identity document. Both in the theater and throughout the show, the audience must use the mask properly, covering both the nose and the mouth.