Author: lensherra

Title of performance: Gränskontroll (Border control)Theatre Group: Teater NeaCountry: SwedenDirector: Erik Nihlgård Date and time: Wednesday August 11, 20.00Gränskontroll is mainly performed by actors on stage, but also consists of short filmed sequences and voice-overs. The show defies different attitudes to the stage by mixing spoken scenes with sung and choreographed ones, with the intention to explore the possibilities and taboos of theatrical means of expression. There is no chronology in Gränskontroll, and the show is in a way fragmentary. All the characters in the show are somewhat different, and that is what unites them. The red thread is...

Title of performance: A ´la MusicaleTheatre Group: Druskininkai TheatreCountry: LithuaniaDirector: Asta Žiurinskienė Date and time: Wednesday August 11. / 15.00 – 16.00 The performance „A ‘LA MUSICALE“ of Druskininkai theatre „Niša“ is a creative and original interpretation of J. Erlickas play „The Birthday of Columbus“. The performance reminds a lively and feel-good musical where residents of the village live, love, hate, and fear. The characters of the performance sing jolly about all these things. Modern-days problems such as ambitions of power, cheaply shining popularity of new stars and peripeteia of everyday life are visibility revealed on the stage....

Title of performance: After Magritte Theatre Group: Auseklis Limbazi Country: LatviaDirector: Didzis JonovsDate and time: Thu 12. August 21.00Tom Stoppard’s “After Magritte” (1970) is a surreal comedy of improbable domestic juxtapositions in a suburban family, where a ballroom dancing couple prepares for a night out and the Mother toots on the tuba. Matters become even sillier with the entrance of Inspector Foot and Constable Holmes and their suspicions that the household is involved in a dastardly crime….As the play opens, a half-naked Reginald Harris stands on a table unscrewing a light bulb while his wife Thelma searches the floor...