Premiere: 12.01.2024.
Duration: 110’, in two acts
Language: Latvian
Translation: English
Company: Latvian Puppet Theatre
Venue: Latvian Puppet Theatre, Main Hall
Address: Krišjāņa Barona iela 16-18, Rīga
Author: Jurga Vile, Lina Itagaki
Translation from Lithuanian: Dace Meiere
Director, Playwright: Valters Sīlis
Stage Designer: Uģis Bērziņš
Composer: Gatis Krievāns
Video Artist: Toms Zeļģis
Light Artist: Uldis Andersons

Cast: Rihards Zelezņevs, Baiba Vanaga, Elīna Bojarkina, Kristīna Varša, Artūrs Putniņš

Synopsis: A visually poetic and technologically sophisticated paper animation that follows the experiences and perspective of a young Lithuanian boy, Algis, as he and his family are exiled to Siberia. The play is based on the award-winning Lithuanian graphic novel of the same title by writer Jurga Vile and artist Lina Itagaki. 

Director Valters Sīlis and his creative team have created this work as a technically nuanced and emotionally charged message for children from the age of 10 about the deportation experience of people from the Baltic States, revealing these history pages from a child's perspective. In 1941, on the night of June 14, 15 425 civilians in the USSR occupied Latvia were detained and deported to NKVD concentration camps or life imprisonment in remote areas of the USSR. Among the deportees were 3751 children under the age of 16. On the same night, detentions and deportations were carried out in Lithuania and Estonia. 

The same had happened in Ukraine and Poland on May 22, in Moldova on June 12 and 13, and in Belarus on June 19 and 20. This was done in order to exterminate people who might organise resistance to the occupying regime, as well as to obtain cheap slave labour in the gulags and camps in Siberia.

Premiere: 06.03.2025.
Duration: 150’, in two acts
Language: Latvian
Translation: English (via surtitle app Teātru titri)
Company: National Theatre of Latvia
Venue: National Theatre of Latvia, Large Hall
Address: Kronvalda bulvāris 2, Rīga
Author: Lee Hall, Paddy Chayefsky
Translation from English: Matīss Kaža
Director: Matīss Kaža
Visual Dramaturg: Reinis Dzudzilo
Costume and Make Up Designer: Krista Vindberga 
Choreographer: Ramona Levane
Composer: Marta Ansone
Assistant Directors: Ināra Slucka, Gatis Ungurs
Light Artist: Oskars Pauliņš
Video Artist: Toms Zeļģis
Generation of Set Design Interior Images (AI): Oļa Golovko
Producer: Anna Vekmane

Cast: Egons Dombrovskis, Agnese Budovska or Agate Marija Bukša, Ivars Kļavinskis, Igors Šelegovskis, Matīss Budovskis, Marija Bērziņa or Daiga Kažociņa, Uldis Anže, Elza Rūta Jordāne, Kārlis Reijers, Normunds Laizāns, Emīls Ralfs Zagorskis, Ivars Puga, Daiga Kažociņa or Marija Bērziņa, Madara Reijere, Kristaps Kristers Ozols, Laura Siliņa, Raimonds Celms

Synopsis: Every evening, veteran anchorman Howard Beale informs the world about what is new and important through his news broadcast on the National Network. Howard’s ratings are declining, and the executives want to replace him with a new face. Unwilling to leave, Howard announces that he will commit suicide live on air during his final broadcast. Suddenly, he becomes a sensation, and his following rapidly grows – he turns into a rambling old man denouncing the hypocrisies of the times. The National Network soon realises that having a so-called “mad prophet” on air is far more captivating than traditional news. And it is going to send the ratings through the roof.

Premiere: 20.12.2023.
Duration: 45’, in one act
Language: no dialogue
Translation: no
Company: Ģetrūdes Street Theatre
Venue: Ģetrūdes Street Theatre
Address: Ģertrūdes iela 101a, Rīga
Director: Andrejs Jarovojs 
Movement Artists and Performers: Emīlija Berga or Simona Ozola, Vladimirs Goršantovs, Ramona Levane, Darja Turčenko 
Costume Designer: Sintija Jēkabsone 
Composer: m.a.t.a.d.a.t.a.
Light Artist: d'n'a
Sound Engineer: Normunds Balodis
Visual Identity: Aleksejs Beļeckis
Producer: Ģetrūdes Street Theatre

Synopsis: 128 beats per minute. 4/4 time signature. that's all we can do is a spacetime in which the participants re-create the boundaries between themselves and the collective through a repetitive ritual. the dancers move through the space, merging into and out of coherent movement, while the linear time of the performance becomes an infinite tide, in the variations of whose rhythms the dancers lose and regain their individuality.

drawing on the traditions of techno and electronic club culture, "that's all we can do" calls attention to solidarity and inclusive humanity – something we miss so much in our everyday relationships with each other. when the ties that bind the world together are broken, the best I can do is dance and dance with others.

techno emerged in the late 1980s as a response to the difficult social, political and economic conditions that followed the decline of the neoliberal economy. it was uncompromising music, danced to in abandoned warehouses or in clubs with the lights turned off. it was an environment for a political protest movement that fostered a sense of solidarity, belonging and common identity among the participants.

the first decades of the 21st century have begun with a crisis of democracy, irreversible climate change and the largest mass protests in human history. however, mass mobilisation is no longer able to influence the political agenda and bring about the desired change. the last platform through which we can still make our voices heard is the body. because it is the only thing that belongs to us.

Premiere: 28.08.2025. (Ruhrtriennale, international premiere); 19.09.2025. (Latvian premiere)
Duration: 210’, in two acts
Language: Latvian, English
Translation: English
Company: Dailes Theatre
Venue: Dailes Theatre, Large Hall
Address: Brīvības iela 75, Rīga
Author: Anka Herbut
Translation from Polish: Ingmāra Balode
Director: Łukasz Twarkowski
Text and Dramaturgy: Anka Herbut
Set Design and Lighting Design Concept: Fabien Lédé
Costume Designer: Svenja Gassen
Choreography and Artistic Collaboration: Pawel Sakowicz
Composer: Julek Ploski
Video and Digital Media Designer: Jakub Lech
Lighting Designer: Eugenijus Sabaliauskas
Assistant Director: Diāna Kaijaka
Dramaturgical Support and Adapter of the Translation for Stage: Loreta Kalniņa
Video Assistant: Ričard Žigis
Video Solutions: Andris Fridrihsons, Edmunds Cīrulis, Dāvis Dreiska
Additional Translations in Dramaturgy Development: Nelė Savičenko, Rytis Saladžius, Xiaochen Wang
Rehearsal Translators: Eleonora Balode, Frančeska Bindere
Stage Manager: Iveta Boša
Producer: Līga Svempe
Cast: Madara Viļčuka, Mārtiņš Meiers, Juris Bartkevičs, Artūrs Skrastiņš, Vita Vārpiņa, Kaspars Dumburs, Ilze Ķuzule-Skrastiņa, Nelė Savičenko, Katarzyna Osipuk, Klāvs Kristaps Košins, Rytis Saladžius, Xiaochen Wang

Synopsis: Following the phenomenal success of ROTKHO at the largest and most prestigious theatres and festivals across Europe Polish director Łukasz Twarkowski and his team return to Dailes Theatre. Partnering up with other European theatres, the director will stage ORACLE, the second part of his science trilogy. Continuing to explore a complete fusion of theatrical and cinematic expression, this will be the most ambitious production at Dailes Theatre to date, delving into uncannily accurate prophecies of the future that are already shaping our lives today.

The production will shine a light on the discoveries in natural and artificial intelligence by British mathematician and logician Alan Turing – the creator of the Turing Test – during World War II, when he decrypted messages sent by Nazi forces. The reclusive Turing kept his identity hidden, but due to his sexuality, was subjected to chemical castration by the ruling system. He was a man capable of solving the greatest mysteries of the world, while living a life shrouded in impenetrable secrecy. His legacy includes the Turing, or Oracle, machine – a concept whose physical realisation remains impossible…

The ORACLE is included in the programme of the prestigious Ruhrtriennale festival. Slated for its world premiere on 28 August in Duisburg, Germany, it will celebrate its Latvian premiere with audiences in Riga a few weeks later – on 19 September. The production is being developed in collaboration with a number of international partners, including the Ruhrtriennale team, affirming the reputation of Dailes Theatre in Europe and the purposeful nature of its international collaborations, as it continues showcasing Latvia on the world stage.

The production is created in collaboration with several cross-border partners – the Ruhrtriennale Festival of Arts NewError, Comédie de Genève, Piccolo Teatro di Milano, De Singel Antwerp – and with the support of the Adam Mickiewicz Institute. The initial framework for the text was developed during the Complicité Mudlarks International Residency, supported by Complicité Theatre and the Polish Institute in London.

Premiere: 29.11.2024.
Duration: 95', in two acts
Language: Latvian
Translation: English
Company: Latvian Puppet Theatre
Venue: Latvian Puppet Theatre, Main Hall
Address: Krišjāņa Barona iela 16-18, Rīga
Director: Edgars Kaufelds 
Dramaturg: Ance Muižniece
Visual Artist: Rūta Briede
Composer: Rihards Zaļupe
Visual Artist’s Asistant: Evija Stukle-Zuitiņa
Light Artist: Jūlija Bondarenko
Illustration Authors: Rūta Briede, Artis Briedis
Cast: Agris Nātre, Lienīte Podskočija, Arnita Jaunzeme, Kristīna Varša, Artūrs Putniņš, Miķelis ŽideļūnsVoices: Anna Klišāne, Matīss Millers, Dace Vītola, Edgars Kaufelds, Ance Muižniece, Nellija Spūle, Staņislavs Kuļikovs, Rūta Dišlere, Līva Jevdokimova and Paula Kalniņa

Synopsis: A curious little salmon sets off on a fascinating journey from his native river to the vast, mysterious "Salmantic" Ocean. His journey will be intense - there will be challenges, danger, fateful friendships, fun, unexpected encounters and a great, great longing for home. The play is based on eco-theatre principles.

Premiere: 30.11.2024.
Duration: 85’, in one act
Language: no dialogue
Translation: no
Company: Ģetrūdes Street Theatre
Venue: Ģetrūdes Street Theatre
Address: Ģertrūdes iela 101a, Rīga
Creator and Director: Andrejs Jarovojs
Co-creator and Choreographer: Kristīne Brīniņa
Set and Costume Designer: Justīne Jasjukeviča
Set and Costume Designer’s Assistant: Dana Deineko
Light Artist: Līva Kalniņa
Co-creators and Performers: Anna Klišāne, Arturs Muskars, Jurģis Lūsis, Roberta Gailīte
Visual Identity: Patrīcija Luiza Broka
Producer: Ģertrūdes ielas teātris
Co-producer: Latvijas Leļļu teātris

Synopsis: Clothes, as a necessity to survive and fit in, in a system driven by endless progress have become a threat to ourselves. In the new world, the weather changes more unpredictably than the mood, and the landscape is made up of colorful mountains of synthetic clothing. But despite the chaos caused by ecological collapse, people continue their daily routines with admirable ingenuity and stubbornness. Even when the natural order of things has to be reinvented. A performance about paradoxical human nature, 4 seasons and 52 seasons of fast fashion. 

Premiere: 27.02.2025.
Duration: 115’, in one act
Language: Latvian
Translation: English (via surtitle app Teātru titri): here and here
Company: National Theatre of Latvia
Venue: National Theatre of Latvia, New Hall
Address: Kronvalda bulvāris 2, Rīga
Author: Yukio Mishima
Translation from Japanese: Ingūna Beķere
Director: Henrijs Arājs
Theatrical Adaptation: Lelde Stumbre
Stage and Costume Designer: Adriāns Toms Kulpe
Choreographer: Simona Orinska
Composer: Platons Buravickis
Light Artist: Lienīte Slišāne
Producer: Rihards Gāle
Cast: Uldis Siliņš, Tomass Ralfs Ābolkalns, Voldemārs Šoriņš, Rūdolfs Sprukulis, Ināra Slucka, Liene Sebre

Synopsis: Nothing in this world is as beautiful as the Golden Temple. For the young Mizoguchi, achieving this beauty means giving life purpose and finding fulfillment—a future his parents also wish for him. Yet how can one reconcile the desire to become part of the beautiful, part of eternity, while knowing you will always remain just a shadow? The Golden Temple will always surpass you. Perhaps the meaning of life lies elsewhere—but where?

Premiere: 22.05.2024.
Duration: 210’, in two acts
Language: Latvian
Translation: English
Company: Valmiera Drama Theatre
Venue: Valmiera Drama Theatre, Round Hall
Address: Lāčplēša iela 4, Valmiera
Author: Rūdolfs Blaumanis
Director: Reinis Suhanovs
Composer: Jēkabs Nīmanis
Costume Designer: Anna Heinrihsone
Light Artist: Oskars Pauliņš
Movement Artist: Linda Mīļā
Cast: Aksels Aizkalns, Aigars Apinis, Ieva Estere Barkāne, Rūdis Bīviņš, Gerda Embure, Mārtiņš Liepa, Māra Mennika, Sandis Runge, Diāna Krista Stafecka, Krišjānis Strods, Elīna Vāne, Aigars Vilims, Kārlis Dzintars Zahovskis

Synopsis: “In Latvian drama, The Prodigal Son is one of the most powerful works about the meeting point of youth and maturity. Personally, I think the relationship between parents and children is one of the most important issues in this play. As a father of two children, I also think about what it will be like when I let them into adult life – what emotions, mistakes and also moments of guilt will be at that moment… In my opinion, shared moments of happiness cannot be replaced by anything else,” Reinis Suhanovs is convinced. The director believes that at the moment when new actors enter the theater, the choice of this play is natural. Suhanovs calls Blaumanis’ masterpiece of dramaturgy programmatic and is staging it for the second time at the Valmiera Theatre.

A play about how important it is to talk, to talk in general. Then you can also put aside that Christmas tree, not to stretch the “threads” of silence and defiance to the point of tragedy. About repaying debts in all senses – to the innkeeper, to the father, to life, to yourself. This emphasis in the new interpretation is especially important for the director.

Premiere: 15.12.2024.
Duration: 145’, in two acts
Language: Latvian
Translation: English
Company: Valmiera Drama Theatre
Venue: Valmiera Drama Theatre, New Hall
Address: Lāčplēša iela 4, Valmiera
Author: Gunārs Priede
Director: Māra Ķimele
Assistant Director: Linda Mīļā
Set Designer: Reinis Suhanovs
Costume Designer: Ilze Vītoliņa
Light Artist: Niks Cipruss
Composer: Toms Auniņš
Cast: Anna Nele Āboliņa, Artis Jančevskis, Tālivaldis Lasmanis, Ieva Puķe, Baiba Valante, Aigars Vilims, Māra Vīgante

Synopsis: High in the mountains of Georgia, in a town by the Black Sea, Rasma has been living with her seriously ill son for two months. Juris has been in a car accident that has killed half of his family – his father and grandmother. Juris is haunted by the intense gaze of a blue cow that he noticed on the side of the highway moments before the accident. This awakens something in the young man who has lived an easy life until now. He asks his mother to get him the volumes of folk songs that everyone knows about but few have read. In existential isolation, the family deals with difficult questions about guilt, what is hidden, and how to live on.

“A play about how life forces you to turn the mirror on yourself and see something unexpected. Through passing away, Juris connects with his essence and, ultimately, with his people, with everything that cannot be touched with your hands alone. We also have a spiritual heritage. I want to make this play about the fact that passing away is not the end, but the highest point. Juris goes into the light, he is enlightened and goes away,” says director Māra Ķimele.

Gunārs Priede wrote this play in 1972 in a few days. It immediately ended up on the list of ‘unwanted plays’ due to the regime and premiered in Estonia in 1973.

Premiere: 20.09.2025.
Duration: TBA
Language: Latvian
Translation: English
Company: Dailes Theatre
Venue: Dailes theatre, New Hall
Address: Brīvības iela 75, Rīga
Authors: Dario Fo, Franca Rame
Translation from Italian: Līva Trektere
Literary Editor: Raimonds Ķirķis
Director, Dramaturg: Matīss Kaža
Visual Dramaturg: Reinis Dzudzilo
Choreographer: Ramona Levane
Composer: Toms Auniņš
Lighting Designer: Niks Cipruss
Assistant Director: Aleksandrs Bricis
Producer: Kristīne Mūrmane
Cast: Toms Veličko, Imants Strads, Arturs Krūzkops, Lauris Subatnieks, Milēna Miškēviča, Marta Lovisa Jančevska

Synopsis: A while ago, an anarchist jumped out of the window of the central police station during an interrogation – and died. The circumstances of this event remain unknown to this day. Now, in that very same station, in that very same interrogation room, sits the local Maniac. A trickster, capable of impersonating different characters within seconds, throwing even the most experienced police officers into confusion.

What started out as yet another arrest turns into a gripping investigation, in which the main character throws the entire station into disarray and reenacts scenarios of the anarchist’s mysterious demise. As they're dealing with the strange incident of the anarchist’s death, the officers at the station are forced to reconsider their own involvement in it. Under the influence of the Maniac’s scene-stealing personality, past situations become very real, even if conjured from thin air.

Written over fifty years ago by Nobel Prize laureate and Italian master of satire Dario Fo, based on a real event in Milan, reads like a powerful allegory for today’s post-truth era, in which it apparently is not so hard to convince someone of something they’ve never believed. Even more – make them believe they’ve done something they’ve never actually done. Why are we still so fascinated by madmen and outsiders with strong personalities? And why are we willing to march to their beat?

Premiere: 25.04.2025.
Duration: 80’, in two acts
Language: Latvian
Translation: English
Company: Latvian Puppet Theatre
Venue: Latvian Puppet Theatre, Main Hall
Address: Krišjāņa Barona iela 16-18, Rīga
Choreographer, Director, Dramaturg: Kristīne Brīniņa
Artists: Marianna Lapiņa, Justīne Jasjukeviča
Composer: Linda Leimane
Lighting Artist: Niks Cipruss
Illustrator: Elvīra Beķere
Cast: Małgorzata Apse, Lienīte Podskočija, Agris Nātre, Artūrs Putniņš

Synopsis: Playthings is a motion performance about how different things learn to get into lockstep in one small box. In this story, feelings become a guide that helps you not to get lost and to hear yourself through the great bustle. The play takes us into an imaginary world where we meet the playthings, or playmates, who unexpectedly become very real. Through playing together, things are noticed, new places are discovered, and feelings are sparked.

A mobile and resonant play for children from 3 years old where little spectators get on a journey towards the Universe through playing with imagination and experiencing feelings.

Can joy make a back-bend?
How does sadness dance?
Is there an anger exercise?
How long is boredom?
And how does sweetness sound when a quarrel gets in-between?

Premiere: 05.11.2024.
Duration: 75’, in one act
Language: Latvian
Translation: English
Company: Dirty Deal Teatro
Venue: Dirty Deal Teatro
Address: Talsu iela 1, Rīga
Author of libretto: Jānis Balodis
Director: Valters Sīlis
Composer: Edgars Raginskis
Artist: Uģis Bērziņš
Lighting Artist: Niks Cipruss
Concertmaster: Līga Paegle
Sound Design: Kārlis Tone
Percussionist: Ernests Mediņš
Choreographer: Edvards Kurmiņš
Cast: Aleksandrs Bricis, Artis Drozdovs, Mārtiņš Gūtmanis, Emīls Kivlenieks, Armands Siliņš-Bergmanis

Synopsis: The musical theatre play Alfas is inspired by the events in Jēkabpils in January 2011, when four police officers and one civilian committed an armed robbery at a gambling hall, followed by a runaway and shooting at the moment of arrest on Daugavmala. The consequences were tragic – a police officer died while performing his duties and trying to arrest the robbers. This event coincided with the lowest point of the crisis and at the same time was a poignant reminder of the values ​​of the “fat years”, namely bravado and the public celebration of an expensive, presentable and credit-based lifestyle. These events, more than 10 years ago, may seem like a distant past, but it is still possible to ask these questions - how do we as a society understand the words 'decisiveness', 'strength’, 'manliness' and “heroism’?

By re-evaluating and fictionalizing these events in a dramatic musical form, it is possible to create your own version of how human characters, self-confidence, carelessness and the situation in the country met at one point and caused tragedy. This performance is an opportunity to reflect on the role of men in society. How do they see themselves? What is expected of them? How do they think about all this and find themselves in a dead end?

The performance contains loud gunshots and strong language.

Premiere: 25.04.2025.
Duration: 240', in two acts
Language: Latvian
Translation: English
Company: New Riga Theatre
Venue: New Riga Theatre, Big Stage
Address: Lācplēša iela 25, Rīga
Translator from German: Gundars Āboliņš
Dramaturg, Director: Matthias Hartmann
Set Designer: Volker Hintermeier
Costume Artist: Jana Čivžele
Video Artist - –8
Lighting Artist: Lauris Johansons
Composer: Jēkabs Nīmanis
Draftsman: Vilis Daudziņš
Cast: Guna Zariņa, Gundars Āboliņš, Vilis Daudziņš, Kaspars Znotiņš, Ivars Krasts, Aminata Grieta Diarra, Evelīna Priede, Ričards Murāns

Synopsis: The image of Parsifal has occupied the minds of poets, writers and artists from different cultures throughout the ages. The story of Parsifal is the story of man's journey to the Holy Grail, man's journey to himself.

A mother has brought up her son in the forest, alone, separated from people. So that he would not become evil. But when he enters the human world and follows only his instincts, he inevitably becomes evil. Because he has not learned compassion. He has not learnt and opened his humanity. Parsifal will be accompanied on his journey to humanisation and his search for the Holy Grail by the draughtsman Vilis Daudziņš and the actors of the New Riga Theatre.

German director Matthias Hartmann has explored the medieval novels in verse about Parsifal and the Holy Grail, Richard Wagner's testament to humanity – the opera “Parsifal”, the screenplay by the visionary American director Robert Wilson, under the artistic editorship of Tancred Dorst, and, most recently, the magnificent thousand-page novel “The Red Knight. The Story of Parsifal" by the Swiss writer Adolf Muschg. And wrote his own "The Story of Parsifal".

Matthias Hartmann has directed productions at leading theatres in Germany, Austria and Switzerland, as well as operas at the Teatro alla Scala in Milan, Florence, Paris, Zurich and Geneva. He has been artistic director of the Bochum Schauspielhaus, the Zurich Schauspielhaus and the Burgtheater in Vienna. In 2024, Matthias Hartmann published Why the Gun Doesn't Fire on Stage, a book about the crisis in contemporary theatre and its causes.

Premiere: 31.01.2025.
Duration: 155’, in two acts
Language: Latvian
Translation: English
Company: Dailes Theatre
Venue: Dailes Theatre, Large Hall
Address: Brīvības iela 75, Rīga
Author: William Shakespeare
Translation from English: Valija Brutāne
Director: Viesturs Kairišs
Dramaturge: Matīss Gricmanis
Set Designer: Kristaps Kramiņš
Costume Designer: Baiba Litiņa
Choreographer: Anna Abalikhina
Composer: Jēkabs Jančevskis
Lighting Designer: Reinis Zalte
Video Designer: Viktoria Martjanova
Cast: Gints Grāvelis, Marta Lovisa Jančevska,, Lauris Subatnieks, Kārlis Arnolds Avots or Klāvs Kristaps Košins , Niklāvs Kurpnieks, Madara Viļčuka, Katrīna Griga, Arturs Krūzkops,  Ieva Segliņa, Ilze Ķuzule-Skrastiņa, Dainis Gaidelis, Meinards Liepiņš, Kristīne Nevarauska,  Toms Veličko, Kaspars Dumburs, Andris Bulis , Mārtiņš Meiers, Imants Strads,  Sithums Silva  or Alike Biele.

Synopsis: The enchanting comedy "A Midsummer Night's Dream", often referred to as "high comedy”, is William Shakespeare's masterpiece – his triumph in the battle between word and nature.

In a game of distorting mirrors, the great Bard has woven together the historical, the mythical and the archetypal human, for whom the ancient laws of civilization serve as a fatal augury: human nature does not submit to man. It obeys only the forces of fable, magic and dream.

Being chosen and falling madly in love can sometimes turn out to be but a cruel twist of fate. Love not only unites families but can also tear them apart – just as it can unravel workplaces, political parties and even entire nations. Falling in love is known to have even brought down state leaders.

We are all vulnerable to the great sins of love and the small transgressions of passion, although our daily duties and responsibilities should keep us in check. The blindness of love is the reflection of our inability to recognize its overwhelming power. “I would never…” we often say, ready to judge from the sidelines as we witness the madness of love, having once secretly yearned for it. And that is the heart of this dream.

Age recommendation: 16+ | Contains strong language and violent and sexually explicit scenes

Premiere: 11.03.2025.
Duration: 75', in one act
Language: Latvian
Translation: English
Company: Dirty Deal Teatro
Venue: Dirty Deal Teatro
Address: Talsu iela 1, Rīga
Director: Elīza Dombrovska
Text: Anna Belkovska, Aleksandrs Barons, Elīza Dombrovska, Anna Klišāne, Agnese Krivade, Edvards Kurmiņš, Sabīne Tīkmane
Set Design: Ildze Jurkovska
Music and Sound: Elīza Dombrovska, Viesturs Balodis
Lighting Artist: Niks Cipruss, Andris Landaus
Choreographer: Edvards Kurmiņš
Cast: Anna Klišāne, Sabīne Tīkmane

Synopsis: Once upon a time, a crackling noise quietly announced itself, a sound was born, and as it expanded, feelings.

Once upon a time, the ancient times ended, and in order for there to be someone to tell the time, a wise, beautiful, social, political, active, passive, active and mortal mammal announced itself. It created events, events created stories, and stories created images of events, which were created by the feelings that reached them (sometimes also the mind).

Following this same analogy, two angels can announce themselves in the picture of the mammal's story. They will accept the laws of gravity, language, law, mortality, love and other three-dimensional laws. They will look into the black box, in which about 10 sensitive people once met. The wonders of the life of the body and the passions of the soul entertain and excite them: they hold our cold hands and scream in delight.

This one day on earth is a collage of music, poetry, dance and language, created in an intuitive process of conversation, watching each other's confused hesitations, watching where the sideways glances of contemporaries flash. It contains both our own, imagined, and so-called and tired voices that have haunted us since the ancient Greeks. It is a reportage of our common, timeless humanity. This time it has been our shameful guilt.

Premiere: 29.03.2025.
Duration: 60’, in one act
Language: Latvian
Translation: English
Company: Cēsu Small Theatre
Venue: Theatre Museum
Address: Talsu iela 1, Rīga
Author: Edvarts Virza
Director: Liena Šmukste
Artist: Laura Tiltiņa
Cast: Liena Šmukste, Zane Reitere, Laura Šalma Ilze Liepa, Emīls Krūmiņš, Jurģis Lūsis

Synopsis: It is a performance staged using sensory techniques, which uses fragments from Edvarts Virza's Straumēni.

The performance is suitable for people with visual disabilities. No one will see this performance, but they will experience, through sounds, smells, touch and feel, the calm flow of life and nature. The director says: "In a time when the world is moving at a fast pace and it seems that the hours have become shorter, everything is taken over by technology, people are more likely to experience a feeling of anxiety, panic attacks. A feeling creeps in that you want to stop, take only the closest people with you or be alone and return to the beginnings - peace, the passage of time, cyclicality, authentic sounds, nature – the order of things, as our ancestors knew it. But nowadays it is not so easy to do this, because "when you get off a moving train, it is difficult to jump back on it".”

In turn, E. Virza's Straumēni is like a haven of peace, the beginning of everything and the apparent idyll of the world. Time, which runs its course, nature, which allows you to smell and feel every breath of wind to the bone, hear the buzzing of bees, feel the touch of each season."

Premiere: 04.06.2025.
Duration: 110’, in one act
Language: Latvian
Translation: English (via surtitle app Teātru titri): here and here
Company: National Theatre of Latvia
Venue: National Theatre of Latvia, Large Hall
Address: Kronvalda bulvāris 2, Rīga
Authors: Alfred Jarry, Vladyslav Troyitsky, Elza Marta Ruža
Director: Vladyslav Troyitsky
Dramaturgs: Vladyslav Troyitsky, Elza Marta Ruža
Stage and Costume Designers: Marija Ulmane, Annemarija Ščegoļeva, Vladyslav Troitskyi
Ethnography and Folklore Artist: Edgars Lipors
Choreographer: Lilija Lipora
Video Artists: Toms Zeļģis, Vladyslav Troitskyi
Light Artists; Oskars Pauliņš, Vladyslav Troitskyi
Assistant Director and Translator: Aleksandrs Bricis
Composer: Aleksandrs Tomass Matjussons
Producer: Rihards Gāle
Co-producer: Jevgeņija Šermeņeva
Cast: Marija Bērziņa, Daiga Gaismiņa, Elza Rūta Jordāne, Gundars Grasbergs, Mārcis Maņjakovs, Rūdolfs Sprukulis, Artis Drozdovs, Aleksandrs Bricis, Edgars Lipors, Lilija Lipora

Synopsis: You live in a free, independent country – but can you be sure you will tomorrow? We take our rights and freedoms for granted, believing the state will protect them. Yet the state is us. Can you defend yourself against demagoguery and manipulation? The Ukrainian director’s production delivers a stark message: before our eyes, power slips into the hands of moral zeros – people who devour others, monsters. Through the dazzling form of a musical show, the theatre lays bare the absurdity of our choices.

Premiere: 13.04.2024.
Duration: 130', in two acts
Language: Latvian
Translation: English
Venue: Ādažu Kultūras centrs
Address: Gaujas iela 33A, Ādaži
Author: Rasa Bugavičute - Pēce
Artist: Ieva Kauliņa
Sound Design:  Arvīds Saulītis
Choreographer: Kristīne Brīniņa
Lighting Designer: Mārtiņš Feldmanis
Cast: Agnese Jēkabsone, Ģirts Krūmiņš, Inese Kučinska, Laura Jeruma, Kaspars Gods, Anda Albuže, Madara Kalna, Agnija Dreimane, Kintija Stūre, Gatis Maliks, Hugo Puriņš, Kārlis Artejevs, and the choir “Laiks” (conductor Ilze Balode, choirmaster Krišs Pozemkovskis)

Synopsis: Unexpectedly, Maija receives an invitation to her father’s anniversary concert – her father being a well-known choir conductor in society. Although he has never been present in her life, Maija decides to attend the anniversary in hopes of finding answers to the questions that have long been weighing on her: Why have their paths never crossed? Has she inherited anything from him? What does it even mean to have a sister? How can she avoid repeating her parents’ mistakes in her own life? And could he, once and for all, finally acknowledge publicly that Maija is his daughter?

Longing, anticipation, tragicomic assumptions, and the realization that so much of you comes from someone who feels like a stranger – all of this shakes, confuses, and moves her, and it all unfolds to the sound of choral music.

Playwright Rasa Bugavičute-Pēce received the 2023/2024 “Spēlmaņu nakts” Award nomination for Best New Dramatic Work.

Premiere: 05.09.2025.
Duration: TBA
Language: Latvian
Translation: English
Company: Dailes Theatre
Venue: Dailes Theatre, Large Hall
Address: Brīvības iela 75, Rīga
Author: Marius von Mayenburg
Translation from German: Matīss Gricmanis
Director: Toms Treinis
Set Designer: Sintija Jēkabsone
Costume Designer: Marta Treine
Composer: Aleksandrs Avramecs
Lighting Designer: Reinis Zalte
Cast: Katrīna Griga, Niklāvs Kurpnieks, Gints Grāvelis, Milēna Miškēviča, Dārta Cīrule, Arturs Krūzkops

Synopsis: After their father’s death, siblings are clearing out the family home. In the attic, they stumble upon a dusty painting – a cityscape of early 20th-century Vienna. The artist's signature is barely legible, but the technique makes it clear that the painter was an amateur, and the piece has little to no artistic value. However, upon closer inspection of the signature, a shocking fact emerges: it was painted by a notorious figure in their youth, someone without whom the previous century in world history would have been entirely different.

Suddenly, what was once a worthless streetscape by a brush-wielding nobody becomes a unique art object worth thousands. At least in the eyes of some family members it is an opportunity to land a fortune. Others, on the contrary, believe the immoral painting should be destroyed, thus atoning for the past suffering. Still others want it preserved as a family relic. The previously harmonious family finds itself divided over the fate of the painting, and uncontrollable passions boil over spiralling into a dark comedy.

Following the success of How To Lose a State (2023), Toms Treinis returns to Dailes Theatre with another provocative piece. Together with his creative team, he presents a morally and ethically charged question – should those who suffered under fascist regimes be allowed to profit from the infamous legacy of the ideologues? In one of the most performed plays in Europe in recent years, German author Marius von Mayenburg’s healing satire confronts uncomfortable truths, exploring how any family might be affected when faced with a choice between morality, justice and prosperity.

Premiere: 04.04.2025.
Duration: 135’, in two acts
Language: Latvian
Translation: English
Company: Dailes Theatre
Venue: Dailes Theatre, Large Hall
Address: Brīvības iela 75, Rīga
Author: Olga Tokarczuk
Translation from English: Ingmāra Balode
Direction and Stage Adaptation: Ola Mafaalani
Dramaturge: Matīss Gricmanis
Scenographer: Germans Ermičs
Costume Designers: MAREUNROL'S
Composer: Krists Auznieks
Choreographer: Elīna Gediņa
Lighting Designer: Alex Brok
Assistant Director: Diāna Kaijaka
Assistant Set Designer: Emīls Jansons
Cast: Čulpana Hamatova, Artūrs Skrastiņš, Juris Bartkevičs, Mārtiņš Meiers, Arturs Krūzkops, Indra Briķe or Kristīne Nevarauska, Ģirts Ķesteris, Imants Strads, Katrīna Griga, Kaspars Dumburs, Andris Bulis, Meinards Liepiņš, Lidija Pupure or Olga Dreģe, Beāte Zviedre, Baņuta Perska or Rūta Blumberga

Leonilla Upeniece, Luīze Tumševica, Jeļizaveta Trunkova, Patrīcija Šteinbrika, Marta Elizabete Kilēvica, Egija Raita, Santa Gribuste, Niola Ose (Choir)

Synopsis: Nobel Prize winner Olga Tokarczuk’s masterpiece has been described as a book that, once read, stays with you forever. The novel has captivated readers with its philosophical detective story and the scope of its timeless themes. At its center is Janina, a tenacious woman whose unique worldview leads us into exploring the most beautiful mysteries of nature and astrology. She is a romantic with the sharp drive of Miss Marple.

In a remote Polish village, where teacher Janina feels like an outsider, hunters suddenly start dying one after another in the strangest ways. All the evidence points to an astonishing conclusion: could the animals in the area have conspired to take revenge for their slain kin? No one listens to Janina, who believes that the deaths are nature's revenge. The intrigue is brewing: what is humanity’s role in the world if nature has intentions of its own?

Writer Tokarczuk is a star of contemporary literature. Poland's right-wing factions have even labeled her a traitor, and her publishers have had to hire bodyguards for the writer. Unafraid to state truths that people often prefer to avoid, she has succeeded in engaging society in discussions on topics that many find radical or unacceptable. Her novel “Drive Your Plow Over the Bones of the Dead” has garnered numerous accolades both in Poland and internationally – among other awards, Tokarczuk has also received the prestigious International Booker Prize.

The novel is being adapted and brought to the Dailes Theatre stage by Ola Mafaalani, a Netherlands-based director of Syrian descent.

Mafaalani has created theatrical adaptations of several popular films and series, including the nine-hour stage version of the Danish series “Borgen”, which became a groundbreaking event in European theatre. She is regarded as the queen of fantasy – her productions weave together unpredictable scenes with characters emerging seemingly out of nowhere.

Olga Tokarczuk's novel “Drive Your Plow Over the Bones of the Dead” has been translated into Latvian by Ingmāra Balode. The play features a fragment from William Blake’s poem “The Mental Traveller” in Vizma Belševica’s translation.

Strobe lighting is used in the performance
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