Gertrude street theater performance Malka celi will participate in the prestigious object theater festival FIDENA / Diena

The festival, founded in 1958, is one of the most traditional and important puppet and object theater festivals in Europe, gathering the most important productions from all over the world every two years.

FIDENA – Figurentheater der Nationen (Theater of Objects of Nations) – a festival that has been showcasing excellent international theater productions of objects since 1958 in Bochum and its neighboring cities of Dortmund, Herne and Recklinkhausen, this year takes place from May 7 to 12. Once every two years, it is a barometer of current trends, bringing together established artists, as well as promising newcomers and risky productions of the highest quality from all over the world. Along with the festival program, this year an international symposium will also take place in cooperation with the world’s oldest and UNESCO-related theater organization UNIMA (International Union of Marionettes)on the theme of “transformation”, in which more than 40 festival directors from all continents of the world will participate.

This year, the festival program also includes a theater performance on Gertrude Street firewood roads, created by artists Andrejs Jarovojs, Edgars Samītis, Rūdolfs Gediņš and Rūdolfs Bekičs. Your premiere Firewood roads It took place at the Gertrude Street Theater shortly before the start of the Covid-19 pandemic in Latvia, but later the production was included in the Latvian program of the Baltic Visual Theater Show and performed at the TREFF festival in Tallinn, earning praise from international audiences and theater critics.

“Two logs. Two people. Two axes. For a long time, that’s all. Muscle power and flying splinters. How long will it take? But was it rhythm? Even syncopation? Humanity does not rest. It subdues everything. It creates, uses, gives form, destroy, change and think! It forces the unruly and conquers gravity!” Anete Dabs, curator of the FIDENA festival, said about the GIT show (Annette Dabs) in the introductory words.

Firewood roads is a physical and visual performance in which, playing with the materiality of wood, symmetry and asymmetry, the creative team talks about people and culture in a poetic way, exploring the rules of coexistence of old and new, mutual relations and development potential. A performance-mandala about man’s endless efforts to organize the world and the short-term victories in this process.

In the play, the director Andrejs Jarovojs, together with the co-authors of the play – actor Edgars Samītas, choreographer Rūdolfs Gediņas and set designer Rūdolfs Bekičus – focused on imaginative stage language, interplay of various visual signs, creating a meeting place for the imagination of artists and the audience.

A performance before participating in the festival Firewood roads The play will be shown at the Gertrude Street Theater on the evening of April 30 at 19.00 Tickets are available on the GIT website: www.git.lv