Ogre Theater acquires the status of a city theater / Day

Ogre Theater is a long-term performance of state-level performances of the Latvian National Cultural Center Annual show finalist, winning three times the highest – Annual performances title (2015, 2016, 2018). An important proof of professionalism is also the LNKC awards given several times to director Jānis Kaijak and actors. In 2019, the theater received the first Livija Akurātere Award for outstanding performance and contribution to the Latvian cultural environment, which confirmed the theatre’s purposeful growth to the status of a city theater.

“Acquiring the status of a city theater is a natural result of purposeful work. The new status opens new opportunities for the development of the theater,” admits Elīna Aupe, acting director of Ogre County Culture Center, adding that industry specialists and critics have also responded positively to Ogre theater: one confirmation that the theater needs a new status to continue to develop. “

Maija Svarinska, an expert in the field of theater, emphasizes that under the direction of director Jānis Kaijak, the theater has reached a really high artistic level: “First of all, it is about directing and, consequently, acting. The theatre’s repertoire includes excellent drama. I have seen several really thrilled, which is not often a pleasure for a professional critic. “

“Ogre Theater has reached such a creative and organizational maturity to gain a new status in its city – to become an executive-supported and stimulated city theater. I am convinced that this would be not only an unprecedented precedent in our cultural life, but also a huge stimulus for theater development,” theater scientist, Players’ Night 2020/2021 representative of the jury commission Gundega Saulīte.

The status of the city theater allows the Ogre Theater to continue the work started during the pandemic, inviting Jean-Della and Gerald Sibleiras to Eurofars Long live Bushon! production Long live Bushon! premiere In the Great Hall of the Ogre Region Cultural Center on October 25 at 18.

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