“The sound of silence” by Alvis Hermanis (Latvia)
By Stefano • May 19th, 2008 • Category: Agenda| June 21, 2008 9:00 pm | a | June 23, 2008 9:00 pm |
THE SOUND OF SILENCE
by Alvis Hermanis
music by Simon & Garfunkel
directed by Alvis Hermanis
coproduction between spielzeit’ europa/Berliner Festspiele (Germany), Young Riga Theatre JRT (Latvia)
from 21st to 23rd June 9.00
National First night
show without words
duration 195′
location: Auditorium Domenico Scarlatti della RAI
with Guna Zarina, Sandra Zvigule, Inga Alsina, Liena Smukste, Iveta Pole, Regina Razuma, Kristine Kruze, Gatis Gaga, Kaspars Znotins, Edgars Samitis, Ivars Krasts, Varis Pineis, Airts Krumins, Andris Keiss
set-design and costumeMonika Pormale
photography Mara Brašmane
stage assistant Reinis Suhanovs
costume assistant Liga Sulce
wigs and make-up Sarmite Balode, Ilze Trumpe
sound Gatis Builis
light designer Krisjanis Strazdits
light Lauris Johansons
stage manager Zane Piraga
wardrobe Brigita Grinfelde
project manager Elina Adamaite
The Sound of Silence is a wordless show punctuated by the music of Simon & Garfunkel, which gives it the interpretation key. The event unwinds at the end of the 1960s in the season of the utopia of collective happiness identified with Woodstock, the music of Simon & Garfunkel and slogans like “love and peace”. According to Hermanis it’s about the last utopia of our civilization’s history, which can be reopened only in the theatre.
The show unwinds in a chronologic direction opposite to Long Life, staged by Hermanis in 2003 and became a sort of playbill of his work. If Long Life follows the day of seven elderly people who live in one collective apartment surrounded by trivial objects that define them better than any word, The Sound of Silence dates back to forty years prior, bringing on to the scene that same apartment and those same characters in the season of the last utopia.
Alvis Hermanis has been the artistic director of the Nuovo Teatro di Riga since 1997.
It was awarded the prestigious “Young Directors Project” Award for the staging of L’Ispettore generale by Gogol at the 2003 Salzburg Festival 2003. His directing is characterized by a commission of different theatrical forms and aesthetics: from the classic psychological style of My Poor Marat (1997) or Long Life (2003) to the marionette theatre of The Story of Kaspar Hauser (2003), from the varied techniques of By Gorky (2004) to the explorations of the Latvian society proposed in Latvian Stories (2004) and Latvian Love (2006). Hermanis’s spectators were represented by the main international festivals: among others, the Edinburgh Festival (2006), the KunstenFestivaldesArts (Brussels, 2004 and 2007) and the Wiener Festwochen (Vienna, 2005, 2007). In 2007, Hermanis won the IX Premio Europa Nuove Realtà Teatrali.
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