Theater Festival No. 4 / Day will take place in Daugavpils in June

Last year, the success of the theater festival No. 3, a theater festival in Daugavpils, encouraged its organizers this summer to donate the program rich to the inhabitants and guests of Latgale and guests. The theater festival with the fourth round was created in collaboration Dirty Deal Teatro, Gertrudes Street Theater, Latvian Puppet Theater and Daugavpils Theater. Also this year’s festival slogan is Latgale is close. It calls for a change in the perception of the region and reminds not only the festival guests, but also the inhabitants of Latgale that Latgale is not an inaccessible and unattainable place in the context of Latvia or Europe.

This time the Latvian Puppet Theater will offer festival visitors a documentary Light, I hear youwho tells about the everyday life of blind people and is designed for viewers from the age of 14. Gertrudes Street Theater will show Players’ Night 2023/2024 The Music Theater nominated for the award Monster Deliciosain which four women of different generations, singing the stories of other women, also tell their own.

Dirty Deal Teatro The audience will be offered a show It’s our shame – One day on Earth’s music, poetry, dance and language collage. The festival will also be able to watch the philosophical thriller of the Daugavpils Theater in Latgalian Someone will definitely come or Kaidi nutrii atsis, Who received the Latgale Culture Award of the Year Banuk.

Guests from abroad are also expected this year: Estonian Youth Theater Eesti noorsooteater With an object theater show for children and young people Fly, cockroach and spider and an independent theater association Volnya Kupalautsy – Exile Belarusians, former members of the Janka Kupala National Theater Troupe, who were forced to emigrate to Poland after the events of 2020 in Belarus. They will play the show Zekameron, Designed by Maxim Znak’s book, a political prisoner.

After each performance, viewers are invited to participate in a conversation with the creators and participants of the show to share the impressions of what they have seen and ask questions about the show.

Three discussions are scheduled for performing arts professionals: Artists in « boxes » – the fragile border between classification and stereotyping, an hour distance theater for every resident of Latvia, documentary theater and reality – common and different.

The festival program can be found on the Daugavpils Theater website www.daugavpilsteatris.lv

Tickets for shows are already available at the Daugavpils Theater box office (654 26520), Ticket paradise at the box office and on the Internet www.bilesuparadize.lv.