The last day of the Valmiera Summer Theater Festival is here. The celebrations have left their mark and today the festival will be happy.
It is a pleasure that Latvians have the opportunity to experience shows created by directors from other countries. A good example is the leader from Estonia. The name of Neti Nīganen is known to theater connoisseurs. She is a promising artist who has also been at the Valmiera Theater Festival for a reason.
At the preparation stage, the director revealed how she feels in Latvia and did not hide her appreciation for the atmosphere she felt at the festival..
Philosophy of the Latvian language
The three of us worked together and this is our first time here in Valmiera, but we really like it here. There is a horse stable here, horses are nearby, nature is beautiful.
However, this is not the first time I am in Latvia. I have also been to Riga, Liepāja. It is good in Valmiera. It’s great to experience summer in the Baltics. We are all tourists here in Latvia, but it is good to be here and work. I love the festival atmosphere. The ability of everyone to unite, the opportunity to meet, be together, create together, experience together, work together. It’s not every day that happens here.
I have learned the word “summer” in Latvia, because before I did not understand why the Valmiera Theater Festival is called a summer festival, now I understand why, because it is a summer month it’s August.
The architecture is amazing
The biggest challenge is integrating with the environment, how the environment is integrated into the show. To feel this environment, because we are three artists who are trying to create something valuable and lasting here. Everyone can see that the architecture in the Valmiermuiža stable is impressive. Everyone who comes here can see it.
Horses bring the feeling here. There is something unexplained here. Glad I came here. It is a completely different experience. I think it will also be something unprecedented for the audience.
Feelings speak for themselves
The show is based on relationships. It is a kind of journey. A trip to get to know nature, what’s around, see what’s nearby.
Understand what happens when you go up a hill and what happens when you go down a gravel road. They are two different emotions to feel.
The show will have a lot of emotions that prove what it means to be alive for everyone. What does life mean. We hope that the audience will have read what we want to say.
Business card about the exhibition
Visual theater show “Funny Mountain”
Director: Neti Niganen (Estonia)
Set Designer, Costume Designer: Pire Sova (Estonia)
Sound artist: Michele Kiesling (Austria)
Players: Neti Nyganen, Pire Sova (Estonia), Michela Kiesling (Austria)
Location: Valmiermuiža stables, Dzirnavu iela 15
“Earth as coal, horizon, journey with home. Holding on tight, in dirty heels, you climb a steep rock on a winding path. Depression pulls you down, but you face it: uphill, up a worn gravel road. Jumping will continue – shaking, turning, folding, lungs twisting and the stomach making sickles. With a tight and dizzy grip, you spin around the swirling house. Time is slowing down. Holding on to the house, you finally land on the bumpy gravel road – a grim bump! – deceived by the beating. Broken window panes, cavities in the roof and dirty siding. A narrow gap appears right next to it and stretches across the plateau as far as the eye can see, dividing it in half.”
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Funny Mountain, a play set in a dystopian setting, is an exploration of the lost sense of place in the world of travel and the carelessness of a traveler awakened by a premonition of doom.
the humor and clear poetry of Eastern Europe, where emptiness and endless despair take root in collapse and turn into action.
Emphasizing live sound and constantly changing scenes, Neti Nīganen invites the festival audience to engage and participate in the newly created world.
The exhibition is created with the support of the Estonian Cultural Foundation. Supported by Culture Moves Europe, funded by the European Union.
The Valmiera summer festival takes place from 2 to 4 August.
2024-08-04 07:13:39
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