While the Valmiera Theater is undergoing extensive reconstruction, the creative team of director Jānis Znotins is offering a new performance in the Round Hall – “We, Rock, Sex and the USSR”. It is about the prejudices, prohibitions and collapse of the totalitarian system.
The director explains that the story is dedicated to what the totalitarian system is: “We realized that people who had experienced the Soviet Union were much more sensitive to it, while those who had not experienced it and did not have the knowledge of it as adults in it. then we can look at it more easily. “
Against the background of Soviet ideology, relations between three young people and three adults are developing. Concert of the group “Pērkons” in Ogre in 1985 in the center of events. It is surrounded by stories about checks, stucco, deficits, dissidents and other things typical of the council.
Young people portrayed by Sanda Runge, Eduard Johansson and Clint Reinhold are looking for a place in this world.
The search for truth, the effort to live without lies and to find the real truth – these are the reasons why Johansson’s protagonist is attached to the music and truths that sound there.
The grandmother played by Skaidrīte Putniņa, the speculator of Kārlis Freimanis and the ideologically accused mother of Ilze Pukinska act as a counterweight to the idealistic young people in the production. Pukinsky emphasizes that the show is about how we carry our past.
The production is saturated with the songs of the group “Pērkons”, which undoubtedly connects the mentioned times, as they are known to both the younger and older generation of viewers.
The creators of the show define this story as a satire about life in communism. Therefore, for some it may refresh the memory, for others it may be a lesson.
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