New Riga Theatre season opens with Hermanis's staging of Inga Ābele's «Windmills»: a review
The New Riga Theatre has staged the first premiere of its season: Inga Ābele's play «Windmills», directed by Alvis Hermanis. A reviewer for LSM's Russian-language service gives a Russian-speaking viewer's take on it.
The New Riga Theatre has held the first premiere of its season: «Windmills», based on a play by Latvian playwright Inga Ābele. It was staged by Alvis Hermanis, the company's artistic director. The performance runs for almost three hours and has two parts.
The production is reviewed by Andrey Shavrey in a piece published by LSM in Russian under the headline «We Will All End Up in the Morgue». He presents what he calls a Russian view of a Latvian premiere.
How the show affected the reviewer
The reviewer writes that the performance first struck him as tragicomic. He then dozed off, adding that perhaps this was how it was meant to be. During the second part he had various thoughts, and the next morning he was left with a certain aftertaste.
In this brief assessment he does not describe the plot or the actors' performances in detail, so they are not covered here.
