Mikhail Chekhov Riga Russian Theatre

Maxim Gorky

Summerfolk

Performance in two parts

Opening - 15.02.2014. (Big Auditorium)

Duration - 2 h 45 min (with an intermission)

14+

Creative team:

Director
Elmars Senkovs

Composer
Edgars Makens

Set Designer
Reinis Dzudzilo

Costumes Designer
Krista Dzudzilo

Choreographer
Elina Lutce

Light Designer
Oskars Pailunsh

Director assistant on dramaturgy
Madara Rutkevicha

…In summer they all left their large, noisy and stuffy city to go to the country. Almost everyone believes that they have deserved some rest and relaxation. However, someone is full of longing and seeks for something? What do they need? Love, money, happiness, sense of life, friends, understanding? The conflicts are growing so sharp, and some remarks are so nasty that a peaceful summer story seems to be about to turn into either a detective or a passion story.

Elmars Senkovs is talking about today and today people: about responsibility and purpose; about the ability to create a comfort zone around themselves and the need to destroy something, when this zone is closing too tight; about how easy it is to chat on the "right" and "wrong" - and how much courage it takes to go from words to action and to change something.

NB! Smoking on-stage.