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THE STORY OF KASPAR HAUSER Mon 24th November at 7 p.m. Aleksanterin teatteri TICKETS: 20/15 € Performance in Latvian, Finnish subtitles. 
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Kaspar Hauser was a German man who lived in the late 19th century and spent his entire childhood and youth isolated from the world and from other people. Using witness accounts, police records, Hauser’s own diaries and improvisation technique, Latvian director Alvis Hermanis and German dramatist Carole Dürr have created their own version of this fascinating history. The Story of Kaspar Hauser essentially deals with what it means and feels like to be "different" in a society which is based on homogeneity. The performance employs the means of marionette theatre, but instead of puppets, the strings are now attached to little children. 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 SUPPORTED BY Goethe Institute Inter Nationes - Riga |
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