River Tours. Daugava
Stan's cafe, Lucy Bird, Diāna Kondraša, Rvīns Varde, Ūna Laukmane (UK/Latvia)Spend an absorbing forty-five minutes exploring the beautiful River Daugava in the company of a witty grass snake (performed by Eduards Beļnikovs). You will be guided from the Baltic Sea up the river through centuries of history, stories of flooded towns, folklore, hydroelectric dams, migrating wildlife and human incidents.
Written by Diāna Kondraša and Rvīns Varde, your journey is illustrated by a stunning textile map created by Ūna Laukmane and features original music by Aleksandrs Maijers.
This beautifully simple piece of documentary storytelling is made in collaboration with UK theatre company Stan’s Cafe. It is the eighth river in their River Tours series.
Stan’s Cafe have been creating and touring original theatre for more than three decades. They were last in Latvia with their acclaimed rice installation Of All The People In All The World in 2016.
ABOUT ARTISTS
We are Stan’s Cafe, a theatre company based in Birmingham, UK. We are playful with form and serious about ideas. Each project starts with an idea we want to explore – then we find the form that does it justice. This means that although our work can appear wildly varied it all comes from the same place. We love collaborating, touring the world, working with schools and helping other artists. We started in 1991 and are as excited as we have ever been. Check out our social media feeds, we share a mini new artwork almost every day.
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Created by: Stan’s Cafe collaborating with Diāna Kondraša and Rvīns Varde
Directed by: Lucy Bird
Map and costume design: Ūna Laukmane
Performed by: Eduards Beļnikovs
Music: Aleksandrs Maijers
Local Producer: Ieva Briede (New Theatre Institute of Latvia)
Touring Producer: Marina Ivanova (New East)
The performance is co-produced by the New Theatre Institute of Latvia and Stan’s Cafe. It is financially supported by the EU programme “Creative Europe” as part of the “The Big Green” project, the Ministry of Culture of the Republic of Latvia, and Arts Council England. The performance is part of the project “KKC – Development of a Community Cultural Centre for Social Cohesion”, No. 4.3.2.0/1/25/A/044. The regional tour of the performance is financially supported by the State Culture Capital Foundation and its target programme “Development Programme for Latvia’s Historical Lands”. The New Theatre Institute of Latvia is responsible for the content of the performance.
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4–9 September in Krāslava, Slutišķi, Daugavpils, Līvāni, Jēkabpils and elsewhere
10–12 September in Riga
Exact venues and times will be announced in August!