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THE INSPECTOR GENERAL Tue 25th November at 7 p.m. Aleksanterin teatteri TICKETS: 20/15 € Performance in Latvian, Finnish subtitles. 
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Nikolai Gogol wrote his play The Inspector General at the beginning of the 19th century. In just over a hundred years all the absurd visions of his play had come to life; in time and place called The Soviet Union. The Inspector General, which turns into a tragicomedy, is now set in the stagnant era of 1970s Brezhnevism, a time of the director Alvis Hermanis’ childhood under the Soviet regime. The play takes its audience on a "nostalgia trip" to Soviet reality. Down to the smallest details including lighting and artefacts, Soviet paraphernalia has been dug out and placed before the audience with the accuracy of an archaeologist. Yet at the centre of the performance there is the Soviet person, "Homo sovieticus", pictured by Hermanis as an open-hearted and warm type. The artistic principles of The New Riga Theatre (founded in 1992) aim at maintaining a high standard of professionalism as well as ethical and aesthetic quality in its performances. The theatre is consciously trying to attract audiences among the modern, active and educated Latvians and wants to offer its public some serious food for thought. The ambitious aims and a high artistic standard in their performances have brought The New Riga Theatre several theatre awards in Latvia and many invitations to perform elsewhere in Europe. The Artistic Director of the theatre, Alvis Hermanis, regularly stirs his audiences with innovative and startling performances. His fresh way of making theatre seeks to break limits of our reality. In the previous Baltic Circle Theatre Festival The New Riga Theatre presented Viesturs Kairiss’ direction of Dostoyevsky’s Idiot. CONTACT INFORMATION |
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