Performance, two acts
Premiere – 12th September, 2024
How can a small nation survive among large ones, all while fighting the internal conflict between ancient prejudice and modern superstition, rational initiatives and irrational suspicions, personal prosperity and being doomed to poverty? Is a common course of action possible when everyone believes that only they are right?
Considered one of the most powerful works of Latvian literature, the novel People in Boats, by Alberts Bels, tells about the Curonians inhabiting the Curonian Lagoon who are being swallowed up: literally by the Šventoji Dune and figuratively by their richer and more educated Prussian neighbors.