Power as an Inextricable Knot: Dailes Theatre Premieres 'Order No. 2'

Dailes Theatre's latest staging 'Order No. 2' is not the first attempt to address politics on the Latvian stage, but it evokes comparisons to the US political series 'House of Cards'. Although the ruthless intrigues and power struggles depicted in the series take place in a different scale and political culture, director Valters Sīlis presents power as a space where public statements, behind-the-scenes negotiations, personal ambitions, and the rhetoric of national interests intertwine so tightly that they become nearly impossible to unravel. The performance invites audiences to peek behind the curtain of political kitchens and reflect on how similar or different Latvian political reality might be.