Renovation works will take place in the historical building of the theater by the end of 2022, therefore the premises of the Riga Latvian Society will become the temporary home of the collective, where the box office and the fireplace hall will be located in the future, and technical, administrative, warehouse and workshop premises will be located at 106 Lāčplēša Street.
In the 78th season, changes have taken place in the composition of the theater’s staff – long-term author Māris Koristins will continue to work freelance, but the theater’s staff will be supplemented by director Edgars Niklasons, who has staged several performances as a guest director at LLT last season. Your diploma thesis Coat of arms with a big hat In 2014, he chose to create at the Latvian Puppet Theater, confirming his interest in the aesthetics of puppetry, objects and visual theater.
“I am already writing my diploma work at the Puppet Theater, and since then my interest in this type of theater, form and visual theater has only grown. I have staged 4 performances at the Latvian Puppet Theater in total, I am very happy about this opportunity and think that we all have a creative and interesting time ahead of us.The next year and a half will be challenging for the theater, and to redefine the values we want to see in the theater and bring to the audience, “Edgars Niklasons shares his thoughts.
The new staff director will stage his original work in the autumn of 2021 Cauldron – a story about a friendship between a boy and a strange, old man, all unseen. In addition, the first puppets or live puppet animations will be filmed in August under the direction of Edgar Niklason. Nina and Le Corbusier miniseries, which are planned to supplement the digital offer of the theater. Nina is a little girl who, together with her turtle Le Corbusier, learns the world of her emotions and thoughts through unusual situations, adventures and questions, learning to understand and accept them.
In the autumn period, two more productions will be made in the Latvian theater troupe – Hans Christian Andersen Princess on a pea Directed by Vija Blūzma and Andrejs Usačovs Smart dog Sonia Directed by Yuri Lunik.
From August 7, the performances of the Latvian Puppet Theater will be shown in the Fireplace Hall of the Riga Latvian Society House. Due to the limited number of seats in the hall and the great interest of the audience, several additional performances in both Latvian and Russian have been added to the repertoire. Find the repertoire and rules for going to the theater www.lelluteatris.lv.
Edgars Niklasons is a theater director and playwright, who began his professional career in 2011/2012. season at the Latvian National Theater and Dirty Deal Teatro, but in recent years has been active in staging children’s and youth performances at the Latvian Puppet Theater, Mikhail Chekhov’s Riga Russian Theater, Rezekne Theater Joriks etc. in theaters, as well as in various independent performing arts projects. He acquired knowledge in theater art at the Latvian Academy of Culture, the Latvian Academy of Arts and the Janāček Academy of Music in Brno, Czech Republic.
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