SATURDAY, 19.10 13.00 and 18.30
Valmiera Drama theatre

Tickets: Valmiera Drama theatre
Price: 3 Ls
1 h '40 Latvian, optionally translation

Latvian Showcase: I.Abele "Dark deer", Valmiera Theatre

Mara Kimele (1943) has graduated from the State Drama Institute in Moscow, the master-class of Anatoly Efross. In her performances she is experimenting with the model of the psychological theatre. Already since 60s M. Kimele has taken interest in the relations existing between the space and performance (like in the production "Medea" by J. Anouilh staged at the Simanis Church in Valmiera in 1975) trying to find possibly authentic ways how to induce feelings.

I.Abele "Dark Deer"
Some day in a countryside farm Rasa Panemune where the deer are raised arrives a classmate of an owner that in the past loved and still loves owners` crazy ex-wife, butchers prepare to slaughter deer, the pregnant wife of the owner leaves the farm, the daughter very expects her 16 birthday. And then happens something that was not expected. That is the story of drama "Dark Deer" that explodes through one character - the teenage daughter Ria becomes a catalyst for a tragedy due to indecision of adults.

This staging reminds about the forgotten ability of a human to hear the voice of the nature and themselves. M.Kimele is certain that people have got a chance to do something - at least to spurt out of position of a insatiable consumer and "to incorporate in a chain linking with all that lives". The deer with horns reminding wood that periodically regenerate is the symbol of continuity of living, palingenesis and time. It is very hard to habituate the deer. It is possible if they are catched when young. The human amuses himself and then forgets or kills the deer just like other foundlings of him.

Critiques (in the "Diena" February 12, 2002):

By L.Dzene:
Despairingly stuck time, daily disaster, sulk bordering with hate. Humans die forgetting the laws of nature and the bases of the moral and search the causes of the bad luck in each other. Clever and emotionally breathtaking staging where natural level has melt with psychological and poetical one.

By H.Svane:
The performance filled with the life, flesh, hate and desperation of loneliness that draws in itself with naturalist authenticity. Works the theme of totemic reincarnation and men reincarnation in deer accompanied by deterrent monotone murmur of monks of Tibet.

By N.Naumanis:
"Dark Deer" is the hit of the seasons` psychological terror theatre. In this play producer through the group of mighty actors has discovered so fine finesses of obsolescent country family's tragedy's love - hate triangle that it is inexpressive delight to watch.

By V.Cakare:
Up - to - dated story of I.Abele about a world where people "start as biologists and finish as butchers" Kimele tells in the one breath without moralizing and not loosing anything from the humanity and sensuous concreteness written in character.

Valmiera Drama theatre, Valmiera, Lacplesa street 4, tel. 4207335


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