“A very beautiful play with a happy ending. I have an unusual genre – a criminal melodrama – but with good, good drama,” about the new production at the Valmiera Theater Late love says director Māra Ķimele. The premiere is expected today, April 28, and this time in an unusual field. Due to the reconstruction of the Valmiera Theater, performances take place there only in the Round Hall, therefore For late love a new place has been found – a concert hall Valmiera. “A play about a maiden in the bachelor park,” smiles M. Ķimele. At one time, this was the central resting place of Valmiera with the 20th century. at the beginning of the building, balls and green balls. Now the concert hall building has been beautifully renovated, next to it – a good restaurant, and the director says that this place is a play Late love is even very suitable.
Russian XIX century. playwright Alexander Ostrovsky’s work center is Lyudmila, a woman whose greatest happiness is to live for other people. She has lived her youth without love, even giving up the dream of being loved. She is unmarried, has no children, and her only family is her father, a famous and respected lawyer who has gone bankrupt due to treason. When one of Nikolai’s jokes, which jokes, awakens Lyudmila’s stifled longing for another man, she is ready to sacrifice. Nicholas has large debts that are threatened with imprisonment, and it is a crime to pay them off. “Is a crime against a person close to you committed in the name of love justified?” rhetorically asks Ķimele, but the details are not revealed, only promises that the tension will remain until the end of the show. “While it’s a criminal story, it’s a very bright story that is permeated by love, love effort and power. It’s actually about everything being possible,” the director says. “I think the audience will like it. It’s a show for cooling, joy, relaxation. Life is already so hard, you need to introduce something brighter into it.”
M. Ķimele chose the play even before the start of the war in Ukraine and this time – knowing specific actors who will be available. “I was glad to find A. Ostrovska Wish love which has such beautiful roles that result in beautiful acting. The team of actors is really very good, everyone is very gathered and united, “she tells about the pleasant cooperation. The play features Māra Mennika, Rihards Jakovels, Ingus Kniploks, Tālivaldis Lasmanis, Ieva Puķe, Baiba Valante, Aigars Vilims. Heinrihsone, the lighting artist – Gatis Priednieks-Melnacis, the musical design was created by Jānis Everss. and that is the difference. There tend to be good, interesting stories that are extremely difficult to play on stage. But Late love is a real dramatic work with everything you need – vivid, colorful images, tense relationships and an unpredictable finale. “
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