Wednesday 27 August at 20:00
Thursday 28 August at 20:00
Cultural centre „Rītausma”, Kandavas street 27

Object theatre for adults and children from 12 /without text/75 min
Tickets Ls 7, concession Ls 5 (children, students, seniors)
Free entrance for children under 5

Idea: Charlot Lemoine and Tania Castaing
Performer Charlot Lemoine

Supported by French Cultural Centre in Riga

Between heaven and earth,life and death, we spend one night in the madness of solitude.A lonely hesitant man, prisoner of his daily life, observes from his window the city lights far below which frighten and fascinate him. From his bed, he confronts his loneliness bringing to life the objects around him. Like a mad king full of power,  he knows to be false, he dominates these new subjects with wild abandon.
At last the hesitant man makes a real decision, the decision to abandon himself to the void, does he fall or does he fly ? The call of the wind finally gives him his freedom.

Vélo Théâtre was started by Charlot Lemoine and Tania Castaing in 1981, in Angers, France. They create  performances based on images with few or no words, feeling that actors can interpret objets and a series of objects, just as they can interpret words and phrases. Emotions are born of the fragile relationship that the actor establishes with the objects he brings to life on stage. The audience is invited into this intimate relationship. Vélo Théâtre, and other companies working along the same lines,  invented a common voculabary, a new expression was born: “le Théâtre d’Objet” or “Object Theater”.

www.velotheatre.com