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Kirov Drama Laboratory and Teatr.doc (Russia)
\nVYATLAG
\nDiary from 1942 by Art\u016brs Stradi\u0146\u0161
\nDirector\u00a0Boris Pavlovich
\nWith\u00a0Boris Pavlovich and Evgenya Tarsaova<\/p>\n
October 20\u00a0and\u00a021\u00a0at\u00a019.00
\nNew Riga Theatre on Talsu street 1
\nIn Russian with translation in Latvian
\nDuration: 1\u00a0h<\/p>\n
Tickets\u00a015 euro (price for students, pupils, pensioners, people with disabilities\u2013 10 euro)
\nTickets avialable at Bi\u013ce\u0161u Parad\u012bze (www.bilesuparadize.lv) and New Theatre Institute of Latvia
\nGuest performance of Vytalag in Riga is organised by\u00a0New Theatre Institute of Latvia\u00a0in collaboration with\u00a0Dmitry Kletsky and Inna Mosolova
\nInfo: 67228477
\nSupported by State Culture Capital Foundation and New Riga Theatre<\/p>\n
The production “Vyatlag” was created when the country authorities began the legal trial of mass protests on Bolotnaya Square. Not directly associated with the today’s realities the show refers to the events that happened seventy years ago.<\/p>\n
“Vyatlag” is a diary fragment of the Latvian farmer Art\u016brs Stradi\u0146\u0161 captured in 1941 for belonging to a non-governmental organization recognized counterrevolutionary by the Soviet authorities. Stradi\u0146\u0161 spent in the camp ten years, after that he was sent in exile to the Krasnoyarsk region in Siberia. In the camp, he led a secret diary on tissue paper. Boris Pavlovich in his production voices one year of this diary record.
\nThe performance lacks theatrical entourage, all attention is focused on the text: a quiet thin man wearing glasses reads out brief notes made on small pieces of twisted paper. On these scraps of paper there is a whole life with its monotonous rhythm: work at the sawmill, the camp hospital, stealing in the barracks, short conversations with fellow inmates. A lot of details about food and bread allowance. Calmly – about death of friends, relatives, inmates. Often – about the young wife whose fate he cannot find about being in the camp.
\nIn Stradi\u0146\u0161’ notes one may find the way of thinking and living which was largely destroyed by the Soviet authorities. Stradi\u0146\u0161’ economically oriented peasant mind, his close relationship with the land, genetic national traditionalism, the memory of folk festivals helped him stay alive in the camp. It all gave him energy and strength.
\nWith its modest documentary character, \u201cVyatlag\u201d avoids generalization; the performance does not seek to scare or hit the minds with the scale of repression, horrifying statistics of executions or arrests. The disaster which happened to the country and its peoples are shown through a personal story of an ordinary person. The message of \u201cVyatlag\u201d is that the violence of the system manifests itself not only in physical destruction, but also in a total lack of freedom, in a meaningless life of the camp with its monotony, squalor, aimlessness and degradation of man. \u201cVyatlag\u201d tells about a global experiment on humanity that occurred in the 20th century and has brought about the consequences which the world suffers to this day. (Anna Banasyukevich)<\/p>\n
Boris Pavlovich tells the story of how our country killed its ordinary citizens \u2013 daily, in a routine way, indiscriminately, without any reason, pointlessly and without a second thought. People were snatched from normal everyday life and placed in a concentration camp where they were grounded as if by a meat grinder. Our great nation, having gained victory in the war, in the peace time struggled to survive at the GULAG. Here the locked in people knew well what it meant to lose and were even used to it\u2026.. Here they stole, reported on the campmates to save their own lives and still died to buried in a common grave, without inscriptions. (Natalia Pivovarova)<\/p>\n
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