FESTIVAL
- ACTION
OF CONTEMPORARY NON-COMMERCIAL THEATRE
HOMO
ALIBI
Riga,
May 1-6, 2000
·
alibi translated from Latin –
other, alternative
·
alibi in jurisprudence - justification
Producer New Theatre Institute of
Latvia
Idea
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alternative,
non-commercial, different theatre in Latvia
-
link
between the festivals Homo
Novus’99 and Homo Novus’01
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action
for theatre professionals in theory and practice and for those who are
interested in new trends of the contemporary theatre
Aims
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to
present to the Latvian audience original productions of alternative theatre
from Lithuania and Russia
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to
present the best Latvian performances to foreign (mainly Russian)producers
and theatre critics
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to
inspire extraordinary collaborative projects in future
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to
encourage independent initiatives in Latvia
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to attract younger generation of spectators by offering alternative and
different theatre art
Venues
3
New Riga Theatre 3 Sports Museum 3 Independent Theatre Skatuve
Audience
3
theatre professionals in theory and practice and all those who are interested
in new trends of the contemporary theatre
Participants
and program
May
1, 16:00 and 20:00 “How I Ate up a Dog”
May 2, 16.00
and 20:00
“At the Same Time”
new
sentimentalism
Director,
artist, actor - Evgeni Grichkovets, Kaliningrad (Russia)
“Russian
“new sentimentalist”, who tells the stream of consciousness like story,
which seems to be created within the performance.” Literaturnaya
Gazeta
“There
was an abyss between what was being told on the stage on the one hand and what
was felt by the new world on the other, before the appearance of Grichkovets.
Grichkovets ripped up this furuncle and dared to blab it out in his
performances. If you wish, he is the one who teaches the young generation to
talk.” Ekran
i Scena
“I
would like to start with the words: ”The intention of the performance came to
me when…” or “I nurtured the idea of the performance…” or “From the
very childhood I felt the necessity…” And this will be the truth.” E.Grichkovets
Grichkovets
got double award “Golden Mask” in 1999 – as the best innovative
performance in Russia and the special award of Russian critics.
In
1998 at the N.E.T. festival in Moscow E.Grichkovets (1967) presented his first
mono-performance How I Ate up a Dog.
He visited the festival Baltic Circle
in Helsinki’2000 and run the workshop of his “story telling” method for
the international audience. In 1999 the performance At the Same Time was a great success in Moscow, as well. There have
been published two plays by E.Grichkovets - Winter
and How I Ate up a Dog.
May
3, 18:30 “Plantain ”
nearly
intrinsically free dances
PO.V.S.TANZE, Moscow (Russia)
Choreography,
dance: Alexandra Konnikova, Eugenia Kozlova, Elena Golovasheva, Taras Burnashev,
Albert Albert
Stage
design: Vadik Martirosov
Costumes:
Taras Tanzura, Nastya Glebova
In
1997 in Moscow several nearly independent dancers founded the company PO.V.S.TANZE
that exists as a freelance group of dancers and is engaged in experiments in
the field of performance, improvisational dance and choreography, emerges with
own projects and in the same way in joint projects with musicians, artists,
designers. Until now they have participated in more than ten performing arts
projects, among them – Russian-German collaborative project Na
Zemlje (choreographer Sasha Waltz) which has been presented in Germany,
Belgium, France, Denmark, Switzerland. The first night performance of the Plantain
– April 13 in Moscow.
The
Plantain is conceived as a dance performance for five dancers working on
the principle of joint choreography when the dance is a product of joint
improvisational creativity. On the one hand, it is alive dance arising on the
basis of reactions of a body on environment or on a psychological situation,
image or idea. On another hand, comprehension of space and rhythm of everyday
movement or gesture and transformation them in dance.
The
Plantain is a story about young folk
who have grown up and is living beside a road. Someone is getting adult, someone
is learning to drink, someone is dreaming on a better life and greater cities…
But nobody goes anywhere. Is
it possible to live beside the road and not to go?
May
5, 19:00
“Feuergesicht” by Marius von Mayenburg
contemporary
tragedy
Producer:
Oskaras Korshunovas Theatre, Vilnius
(Lithuania)
In
collaboration with: the Goethe institute (Vilnius) / “Kleist” Theatre
(Frankfurt on Oder)/ Lithuanian National Theatre
Director:
Oskaras Korshunovas
Set
designer: Jurate Paulekaité
Composer:
Gontars Sodeika
Actors:
Dalia Brenciute, Remigijus Vilkaitis, Rasa Samuolyte, Gytis Ivanauskas, Dainius
Gavenonis
“In close frame, like the family, I can tell very well what interests
me in the world: being left out and the working mechanism of exclusion and how
one can become independent of all of this and how lonely one can be despite
being a social creature,”- says young German playwright Marius von Mayenburg
(1972).
The
Feuergesicht
is the fourth play he has written and has won him a Kleist-Award in 1998
and the Award of the City of Heidelberg. The first production of the Feuergesicht
was staged at the famous Das Baracke
Theater by Tomas Ostermayer.
A grotesque piece Feuergesicht
is about conflicts between
generations, full of farcical situations, but with a tragic ending. “People are easy flammable material”- says one of the characters
and continues: “One must burn, one must always burn, in all seasons, not only
in the Christmas time, I am the man who brings you the fire.”
The
productions of Oskaras Korshunovas “P.S.File O.K.” and “Shopping &
Fucking” are well known in Riga as they
honestly address mostly the young spectators. The Feuergesicht
in Riga is supported by the Goethe Institute Riga. The presentation in the
framework of the action Homo Alibi
will be its European premiere.
May
6, 18:30 “Words
in the Sand” after “Happy Days” by S.Beckett
the
play for voice and piano
Director,
actress: Birute Marcinkeviciute
(Lithuanian National Drama Theatre)
Composer
and performer of music: Antanas Kucinskas
Costume
and stage designer: Jolanta Rimkute
Consulting
director: Rimas Tuminas
Birute
Marcinkeviciute (1969) has graduated St-Petersburg Theatre Academy (1993) and
has studied Japanese traditional Nihon Buyo dance, Noh theatre and Butoh dance
in Japan (1997/98). From 1996 she works on independent theatre and dance
projects and her productions have been successfully performed at international
festivals. Among them – theatre-dance projects Train People and Airplain
People, based on traveling experience and personal poems from her first
poetry book Lost Letters.
The
Words in the Sand –
mono-performance based on S.Beckett’s Happy Days
- suddenly brought an international success to the young actress – during
1998/99 it was successfully performed in Lithuania, Japan, Germany, Denmark,
Belorussia, Moldova, Russia and won several awards at the International
festivals of mono-drama.
“Young actress B.Marcinkeviciute surprised creating such a wide
spectrum of feelings and colours of Vini's character. Everybody could discover a
part of himself in this character, and for the first time, probably, to see all
the colours in the rainbow of human life.” Lithuanian
News
“…The costume of Vini gradually transforms into the memories. They
are, at the same time, her prison and her space (…). When the human being
finds himself in the point of Death? When the moving in the point of death is
the only thing left? In the final scene, the skirt transforms into the sand of
the memories, where Vini disappears… Birute
Marcinkeviciute with her personage created the capacious metaphor of human
solitude.” Lietuvos Rytas
Criteria
of selection
The
theatre companies invited to participate in the framework of the project Noncommercial
Theatre Action HOMO ALIBI are selected according to the following criteria:
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they
are independent professional companies producing experimental and innovative
performing arts projects;
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they
used to participate in collaborative projects locally and internationally;
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they
are performing partly or even mostly in unconventional spaces.
Tickets
From April 20 in New Riga Theatre, Daile theatre
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