The questions of the brave Daukas – in a show for teenagers in the Liepāja puppet theater / Article

Brave questions from Daukas – in a teen show in the Liepāja puppet theater

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By choosing the story of Dullās Daukas and the work written by Sudraba Ežus to talk about current issues, director Dmitrijs Petrenko wanted to draw attention to the literary heritage and ask questions about how we can read it today and understand how the world is changing, what has changed and what has not.

“I thought it was important to compare the present and the past,” the director emphasizes, wondering why we still treat each other with hatred, whether it is the Internet environment or real life, why we believe that our opinion and understanding of things is the right and important, why is it difficult to accept that another person has a different emotional experience, a different life story?

Liepāja Armands theater actor Kaušelis reveals that the show at the Liepaja Puppet Theater was created in close connection with the actors and the director, moreover this is an opportunity to talk about issues that often remain hidden.

“While reading the story, we talked to the director who is really very sad. The paradox of the story is just that a person in his unconscious age really wants to know something, he fights for something and eventually dies for this desire.” sadder to be. That’s why the director has chosen such a technique to show everything with jokes, but touching very serious topics on violence, bullying. Dauka himself offers to talk about these things, “explains Kaušelis.

The actress Ilze Jura herself worked in a school, so what is happening in the play is understandable and shown very vividly and touchingly.

“Last year I taught theatrical arts for the fifth and seventh grade in Liepāja 10th secondary school, so I had a lot of observations, forms of student behavior that I could put into the show. If I didn’t have this experience, my image would not be certainly so. I encountered a lot of both emotional and physical violence in the classroom. There are also texts about it in the show. In order not only to have these ancient texts, we put them in a language understandable to today’s young people through ourselves, as much as we have offered them ourselves and how the director accepted them, “says one actress.

Liepāja Puppet Theater actress Inga Dzintare says she herself has had to deal with the issues that have been raised in the production during her lifetime.

“The idea is not ordinary or simple. The show is the point of view and attitude of our creative team towards the material, not an illustration of the famous story,” explains the director. Dmitry Petrenko reveals that he himself is actively involved in various cooperation projects directly related to children and young people.

“The theater also plans to attract many schools and psychologists, who could start discussions about these issues with teachers and children. I thought it was very valuable that we are already developing some sort of methodical material on how to watch this production, or rather, how to speak. after this show, not about what is right and what is wrong, but with the help of questions to encourage young people to reflect on these issues, because we live in an age in which an opinion cannot be imposed on a young person ” says Petrenko.

Liene Gāliņa, artistic director of the Liepāja Puppet Theater, explains that the stimulating questions and conversations that will be proposed to adolescents after the show together with the specialists of the “Marta” center confirm the desire of the theater to build deeper relationships with the public and discuss topics such as courage, abuse, resentment and forgiveness “.

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