10 Years for “Operation Iraqi Freedom”!
Author and director: Valters Sīlis Artist: Ieva Kauliņa Performer: Inga Tropa
It’s been 10 years since the beginning of the Iraq War and 10 years since Latvia’s involvement in “Operation Iraqi Freedom”. This happening might have earned an exposition in the Museum of the Occupation of Latvia. Nothing like that has happened, not even a public discussion about the topic.
This work will be about responsibility. Latvia can’t be proud of a big army in the Iraq War, but politically our participation, much as anyone else’s, made the war legitimate. This raises the question: Is Latvia also responsible for the way this war happened? Could those Latvian politicians, who decided to take part in the Iraq War, be considered as war criminals much like the president and vice-president of the USA at the time – George Bush and Dick Cheney?
Valters Sīlis
Valters Sīlis was still a very young director in 2009, when we collaborated with him for the festival production ‘Oasis’. Professionals and Valters’ professors criticized it, young people loved it and came back to see it again. But in a recent interview in the National Television, Valters said that it has been a fundamental turning point in his career and in his perception of theatre.
10 Years for “Operation Iraqi Freedom”!
Language Latvian Duration 30 min Address The house A.Briāna iela 9
dates & hours
2.09.2013 @ 17:30 & 19:00 3, 4, 6.09.2013 @ 18:00 & 19:00 7, 8.09.2013 @ 13:00 & 14:00
Tickets
Biļešu Paradīze New Theatre Institute of Latvia
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