This year (2012), the theatre festival DRAMA is organised together with the Baltic Theatre Festival – the joint original dramaturgy festival of the three Baltic countries which take turns to organise the festival. According to the statutes, every country submits two plays which are based on original dramaturgy and an international jury of five evaluates the plays. The Baltic Theatre Festival is the legal successor of the theatre festival Baltic Theatre Spring which was organised in 1956, 1957 and 1958 and united the Baltic countries. The festival was revived in 1984 but the tradition stopped again after that until 2005 when it was revived by the Baltic View festival in Riga. Estonia has hosted the festival twice – in 2006 and in 2009.
The programme of this year’s Baltic Theatre Festival consists of
Blossoming (Estonian Drama Theatre) and Price of Honey (Ugala Theatre) from Estonia, Unė (Lithuanian National Drama Theatre) from Lithuania and The End (Latvian National Theatre) and Poetry Butterfly (Picture Theatre) from Latvia.
The members of the jury are the Russian theatre critic Yulia Kleyman, Latvian cultural critic and director Linda Ģībiete, Lithuanian theatre critic Jūratė Grigaitienė, Estonian literary scholar Aare Pilv and the chairman of the jury is the actor and director Nils Riess from the USA.
The Price of Honey
4/09 - 17:00-19:20, in the Harbour Theatre (Simultaneous interpretation into English, ticket 14/10€)
Unė 5/09 - 18:00-19:10, in the Genialists’ Club (English and Estonian synopsis provided, ticket 14/10€) Poetry Butterfly 6/09 - 18:00-18:50, in the Harbour Theatre (ticket 6€) The Blossoming 7/09 - 18:00-20:00, in the Harbour Theatre (Simultaneous interpretation into English, ticket 14/10€) The End 8/09 - 16:00-17:30, in the Harbour Theatre (Simultaneous interpretation into English and Estonian, ticket 14/10€)
TICKET INFORMATION +372 55 644 413. More information at info@festival.ee