The Latvian Puppet Theater will celebrate its 80th anniversary with a program of international events

On October 4 this year, the Latvian Puppet Theater will celebrate its 80th birthday, which is planned to be celebrated with a wide program of events for theater professionals and interested parties. For four days, internationally recognized theater professionals and lecturers will visit Latvia to conduct master classes, study contemporary theater development scenarios in a two-day conference, as well as offer exciting guest performances to Latvian theater audiences.

As theater representative Agnese Oliņa informs “Delfi”, the program “Where to go?” will take place from October 1 to 4 in the premises of the Latvian Puppet Theatre, the Latvian Academy of Culture, the Latvian Academy of Arts and the house of Rainas and Aspazijas. The first two days will be devoted to the practical training process by organizing three master classes: “Co-production and object theater dramaturgy” (Sodja Zupanc-Lotker, Czech Republic) will welcome playwrights and theater critics, “Eco-scenography workshop” (Tanya Beer, Australia) is intended for stage designers and artists, while actors and directors are welcome at the workshop “How to tell a story with limited materials. I am a story” (Ishmaels Falke, Anna Ivanova-Brashinska, Finland). Each of the master classes will last two full days.

The central event of the program, which will gather a wide local and foreign audience, will be the international conference “Contemporary (puppet) theater: Where to go?” October 3-4. The conference will gather recognized lecturers, masters of contemporary performing arts, psychologists, philosophers, marketing experts and producers to think and talk together about the possibilities and scenarios for the development of the theater industry today. Lecturers from Latvia, Lithuania, Finland, Czech Republic, Belgium, Peru and Australia will discuss the situation of performing arts in Europe and the world. The conference will take place in the Great Hall of the Latvian Puppet Theater, registration is possible from May 10 on the “Biļešu paradīze” website.

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