Performance Two garages heralds a time when, in the early 1990s, a period of great political and social change in the post-Soviet countries, including the Baltic States, everyone could find themselves in a situation where they had to understand how to exist at that time. Challenges, obstacles, fear of the unknown, insecurity. However, everyone has their own place where he can feel safe, where he can be himself. Your own “garage”. A place to fix existing things and create them anew, a place to be alone and maybe sometimes with someone who, similarly or vice versa – completely differently – perceives such change.
Director Elmārs Sņkovs says about the show: “I am grateful to the Lithuanian playwright Marjum Ivaškevičs, who was the curator of this artistic program. Free stage in the theater, for an invitation to create this show! This is a personal topic in which I indirectly continue the dialogue with my father. That’s what I missed. From childhood memories, this atmosphere of the 90s is largely associated with the garage – as a symbol. In the show, together with the creative team, we try to solve several questions, including how not to lose heart, how to overcome fear, how not to drown, how to please, how to believe in yourself? We invite you to meet in our safe garage – theater. It doesn’t matter which “garage” you are from, but it is important to open the door from time to time and see where you have ended up. On the other hand, in today’s context, it seems that the topicality of this topic is only growing – many may have the feeling that we are a bit trapped. The narrower our space, the more important questions we want to ask. There is also a show about it Two garages – it is an interaction of paradoxical nature that provokes both laughter and sentiment. “
The performance is supported by the State Culture Capital Foundation, its activities are held in Latvian, Estonian and English with subtitles. Premiere on February 20 in Narva, subsequent performances on February 22 and 23 in Tallinn, March 1 and 2 in Tartu.
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