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Dailes Theatre Festival 2022, which is happening in Riga from May 31 until June 4, is a celebration of the best Dailes Theatre performances of the last two seasons, highlighting those that they’ve created together with guest artists from Europe.

Dailes Theatre Festival 2022 represents the first step towards the theatre’s goal of working in a broader Central and North European context.

The idea of Dailes Theatre Festival was born from a wish to amplify the theatre’s voice on the international European stage. Dailes Theatre is working on turning their interests and ambitions into a systematic process, to bring European theatre ideas to Latvia and to show European theatre from Latvia to an international audience.

“Our vision is based on our belief that our audience is not just from Riga or even Latvia – our audience could just as easily be people who’ve come from Vilnius, Prague, Berlin, or London. Riga has always been and continues to be a metropolis of the Baltics – a beating heart at the center of many different creative currents,” says Viesturs Kairišs, Artistic Director of Dailes theatre.

More information about the festival programme here.

Photo from performance “Smiļģis” by Kristaps Kalns.

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