The National Theater is making this season’s last new production king Ibie and other monsters / day

What to do for an artist who has been in war for three years – silent, war, or creates artwork to warn and prevent it from falling into self -deficiency that it does not apply to other European countries. Ukrainian director Vladislav Troickis (1964) has been sheltering during the war in France and continues to operate in the theater directed, creating performances in the aesthetics of black humor. For his debut on the stage of the Latvian National Theater, he has chosen the play of Alfred Jari King ibi, But he has supplemented it with the new Latvian playwright Elza Marta Ruza and its own texts, introducing even Latvian folklore motifs. The show is a protest against stupidity, the show – the absurd show about exposure to stupidity, the show – a bright manifest with a musical orientation in search of universal theatricality.

Annotation of the show: “You live in a free, independent country, but you don’t know if you live tomorrow, because you feel that your human rights and choices are self-evident and your country is protected. But the country is you. People at the monsters.

Vladislav Troickis is the Ukrainian First Independent Theater and Contemporary Art Center DAKH, Postfolk groups Dakha brakha and frankwear DAKH Daughters The creator, which the Latvian viewer has already met in 2024, when DAKH Daughters performed with the legendary group of British The Tiger Lillies and three Daile theater actresses in the program Stupid life.

Troicki has chosen the play on the National Theater stage for debut, as he considers it as a material that allows you to create a show-manifest: “Art is not just entertainment-it is an essential form of resistance that offers tools to recognize manipulation and understand their mechanisms. We create works and their impact on the community.

The legendary play The king of ibis (French original Ubu Roi, written in 1896) is considered one of the most important works of modern theater art and is often referred to as the forerunner of the Absurd Theater, which is still played on the world’s largest stage in the 21st century. The king of ibis There is a revolutionary work in a number of aspects: language games, unexpected and excessive storyline, exaggerated characters and stylized and theatrical primitive or grotesque directing and scenography.

Creative team: director, playwright and author of visual concept Vladislav Troickis, playwright Elza Marta Ruza, stage designer Maria Ulmane, costume designer Annemary Shchegolev, composer Alexander Thomas Matjusson, ethnographer Edgars Lipor Zeļģis, light artist Oskars Pauliņš.

Starring: Marija Berzina, Daiga Gaismiņa, Elza Ruta Jordane, Gundars Grasbergs, Marcis Manyakovs, Rudolfs Sprukulis, Artis Drozdovs, Alexander Bricis, Lily Lipor and Edgars Lipor.

Tickets Ticket paradise at the box office and on the website. Shows this season only on June 4 and 5.

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