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Edīte Tišheizere
An Attempt at Drawing an Artistic Family Tree
In this chapter, the directors included in the book themselves take the floor. They reveal the major influences they have experienced as artists and, if they had to draw an artistic family tree, whom they would include on it. One of them, Krystian Lupa, has literally drawn his artistic family tree. The directors also outline the trends that have had the most formative impact on their aesthetics and work. All this is especially shared for the readers of this book. Only in the case of the late Lithuanian director Eimuntas Nekrosius is an excerpt of an existing interview used.
Alvis Hermanis: “To Be Everything and Nothing at All”
This chapter is about the oeuvre of Alvis Hermanis, a Latvian stage and opera director and artistic leader of New Riga Theatre. It focuses on the road Hermanis took from the 1990s, as a young and rebellious postmodern director, into the second decade of the twenty-first century. In such productions as Long Life (2003), Inspector General (2006), The Sound of Silence (2007) and Brodsky/Barishnikov (2015), he approaches psychological theatre on a new, innovative level, exploring it as a kind of time machine in order to study people and history. In 2013, Hermanis entered the world of opera. In his productions including Alois Zimmerman’s Die Soldaten (2013), Leos Janacek’s Jenufa (2014) and so o…
The Stakes Today
This is the second chapter where the directors included in the book themselves take the floor. They try to define the issues that contemporary theatre faces today, especially in its relationship with the new off-stage realities. They also dwell on how theatre retains, develops and re-imagines its role of a defender of humanity and harmony in an increasingly disharmonious society. All this is especially shared for the readers of this book. Only in the case of the late Lithuanian director Eimuntas Nekrosius are excerpts of existing interviews with him and about him used.