Inspired by Raini’s plays, playwright Matīss Gricmanis has created a new work that will reflect on Raini as a highly controversial personality. Rainis was a genius full of contradictions. It will be the story of a poet-genius, whose internal and external contradictions created such strong images and heroes for Latvians that they continue to live in all of us even today. Set designer Ieva Jurjāne will enrich the production with unusual stage solutions; the music of the show was composed by Uģis Prauliņš.
Raina’s first big symbolic drama was Fire and night. A year before his death in the play Riga witch the author warned about the dangers that threaten Latvia if Fire and night The descendants of the hero Lāčplēš will lightly believe the promises of the East. Riga witch was the poet’s pre-death prophecy. The force of the warning expressed in it is reinforced by the mysterious death of the poet. Some say that an admitted illness is to blame, others that political intrigues had led the poet to a heart attack. Another accused the doctor who gave Raini “rejuvenating medicine”. In the last photo of Rainas, it can be seen that the poet was holding a revolver next to the bed. What was he afraid of? What if it was the fear of national heroes created by oneself? Lačplēsis, however, would not forgive anyone for even unconscious collaboration, and Spiedola’s traitors were fed to the dragon! Shining at night Raina’s only hope to save himself from the revenge of the heroes is Dedze, the daughter of Lāčplēš and Spidola, who, according to stories, loves even her enemies.
Cast: Arturs Krūzkops (Rainis), Artūrs Skrastiņš (Līkcepure), Ieva Segliņa (Spīdola), Katrīna Griga (Deze), Kaspars Dumburs (Lāčplēsis), Dārta Daneviča (Laimdot), Toms Veličko (Kangar), Madara Viļčukas (Zhagata), Marta Lovisa Jančevska (Cielava), Mārtiņš Meiers (Black Knight/Chičerin), Indra Briķe (Aspazija), Juris Bartkevičs (Andrejs Pumpurs), Imants Strads (Andrievs Niedra), Meynards Liepiņš (Fallis), Olga Dreģe or Lidija Pupure (Anniņa). .
Director – Viesturs Kairišs, playwright – Matīss Gricmanis, set designer – Ieva Jurjāne, costume designer – Baiba Litiņa, composer – Uģis Prauliņš, lighting designer – Reinis Zalte, choreographer – Renata Piotrowska-Auffret.
2023-11-16 12:37:06
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