Restoration of Estonian Independence under the direction of Walter Sīlis – in the play “The Death of the Perfect Sentence” / Article

Over the weekend, the long-awaited premiere of the events of the restoration of independence in Estonia at the Latvian National Theater was performed by director Valters Sīlis’ performance “The Death of the Perfect Sentence”.

At the Latvian National Theater, director Valters Sīlis has staged a novel by the Estonian writer Rein Raud about The Awakening in Estonia “The Death of the Perfect Sentence”. The premiere was planned at the end of last year, in preparation for the thirties of the Baltic States’ independence.

“At the time when we were preparing him last December, for all thirty years, this work would make us look at it all differently again,” notes director Valters Sīlis. “Now it has come at another time, it tells very well that we can think of everything about ourselves, but those moments of change reveal who we are.

And that’s what this work is about – not that everyone was so united and so fabulous – no, it was a time when people discovered who they were. Sometimes to surprise yourself, sometimes reluctantly. ”

The show tells the story of Estonian youth who actively participated in the independence movement, also coming to the attention of the State Security Committee or the Czech Republic. The intense plot and the first personal relationship are combined with the author Reina Rauda’s very personal view of the events of the Awakening. The author also emphasizes that there is no single historical truth that is black or white about his work: “This is my history, this is my story, and this is how I can tell how I want to tell. I think the historical truth is the universe of all those people’s stories. ”

The role of the novel’s author Rein Raud in the play “Death of the Perfect Sentence” is played by the actor Juris Hiršs, his image is present on the stage at all events. The actor notes: “It is clear to me that the situation in Estonia was the same as in our country, but this piece is about trust. In fact, even as it is written, it can be understood from the whole plot that these Czech men worked even more strongly in Estonia than in Latvia, because there there was much less trust.

I want to hope that they are justified in this mistrust of each other, because in the end we all came to our freedom, for which we have somewhat forgotten today what it cost. “

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