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14. Sep - 4. Oct 2024

Ugala Theater’s and Valmiera Theatre’s collaborative production “Cosmopolitan”

19:00 - 22:00

Viljandi city | Ugala teater

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Ugala Theater's and Valmiera Theatre's collaborative production "Cosmopolitan" Premiere in the big hall of the Ugala theater on September 14 Premiere at Valmiera Theater on October 4

COSMOPOLITAN

Somewhere at the edge of the world, where the globe bends decisively towards the North Pole, there are two small countries – Estonia and Latvia. Their borders run together for miles and also the sea is the same, but not much is known about each other. Their languages ​​and customs are so peculiar that only the very privileged ones can know one’s way around in the thoughts of these nations.

One fine day, two very different people – Andrew from New York and German from Russia – travel to a motel on the border of Estonia and Latvia. Andrew is a young cosmopolitan, without roots or nationality, a salesman from the West, while German is a retired former ballet artist from the East. They know nothing of each other’s existence, they don’t know the local languages ​​or customs, they both hide their true goals.

Over the course of the next 24 hours, strange events develop in this motel: several colorful characters and four different languages ​​meet there, worldviews and beliefs, hidden plans and unpublished stories collide. Alienation, misunderstandings and hidden secrets take comical and absurd proportions.

Life and death, togetherness and loneliness, roots and rootlessness, fairy tales and everyday life, national culture and the cosmopolitan smart world: these are the contrasts that the characters of this story have to overcome.

Ugala Theater’s and Valmiera Theatre’s collaborative production “Cosmopolitan” is part of the European Capital of Culture Tartu 2024 additional program.

Premiere in the big hall of the Ugala theater on September 14
Premiere at Valmiera Theater on October 4

Author: Ott Kilusk
Director: Andres Noormets
Scenographer: Valters Kristbergs
Costume designers: Maarja Viiding and Ilze Vītoliņa
Video artist: Taavi Varm
Musical designer: Peeter Konovalov
Lighting designer: Lauris Johansons
Translators: Januss Johansons, Alden Kirss and Oleg Titov

Cast: Aarne Soro, Alden Kirss, Eduards Johansons (Valmiera Drama Theatre), Ieva Puķe (Valmiera Drama Theatre), Januss Johansons (Valmiera Drama Theatre), Klinta Reinholde (Valmiera Drama Theatre), Krišjānis Salmiņš (Valmiera Drama Theatre), Martin Mill, Oleg Titov and Terje Pennie

Languages

  • EST
  • ENG
  • LAT

Accessibility

  • Partially accessible for people with reduced mobility
  • Partially accessible for the visually impaired
  • Partially accessible for the hearing impaired

Organiser

Ugala teater

Location

Vaksali 7, Viljandi, Viljandi maakond, Eesti

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