Author: Adam Rapp
Director: Ilze Olingere
Set design: Kristians Brekte
Music: Ainis Rudzītis
Cast: Ivars Krasts, Varis Piņķis, Edgars Samītis, Gatis Gāga, Andris Keišs, Edvarts Alberts

„We made this play because it is about us – actors, artists, musicians who search how to avoid serving the idiotic stereotypes and mass manipulation. Who can tell how to survive staying yourself? And how far can you go in order no to become inert gas?” Ilze Olingere

This dark drama-comedy by New York’s playwright Adam Rapp follows some blokes in their thirties, ex-rock band members, who waist away their days in a flat getting stoned and watching animals on telly. In Finer Noble Gases Ilze Olingere has worked with the talented male cast of New Riga Theatre and the young and controversial Latvian artist Kristians Brekte as a stage designer.

Ilze Olingere (1970)
A graduate of The Russian Academy of Theatrical Art (GITIS), Kama Ginkas′ experimental directing master class, director Ilze Olingere works independently in theatres in Latvia and Russia. Her productions are characteristic with their psychological refinement and ability to neatly, and imaginatively take advantage of space. Her MA thesis production, Chekhov′s Happiness (New Riga Theatre), as well as Brian Friel′s Molly Sweeney, and Ivan Viripajev′s Valentine′s Day are painfully and warmly humane performances about the boundlessness of human nature and relationships. NRT′s production of Adam Rapp′s Finer Noble Gases and Red Light Winter are a confirmation of the director′s creative ability to work in the theatre aesthetic, the organic use of the grotesque and absurd in creating the actors′ entities and material revelation. Ilze Olingere′s stage experience at Daugavpils Theatre—playing several leading roles in repertory productions—has played a major role in developing her directorial approach.

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