One of the most anticipated theater events of the season. The Hanzas Perons stage will host UBU, a project by legendary American director Robert Wilson, a personality who has forever changed the language of contemporary theater.
Robert Wilson is a man who created a new kind of theater. His aesthetics completely transformed ideas about how to think about the stage: light became the actor's partner, gesture became meaning, and silence became a phrase from which it is impossible to look away.
He has collaborated with the world's artistic greats: Isabelle Huppert, Luc Besson, Marianne Faithfull, and Tilda Swinton have entrusted him with the most essential part of themselves—aspects that no one else could reveal.
UBU is a production inspired by Alfred Jarry's revolutionary play Ubu Roi, which revolutionized theater at the turn of the century, as well as Joan Miró's visual legacy—the artist returned to the image of Ubu many times, creating his famous grotesque figures.
In Wilson's production, this artistic world is transformed into living stage painting: puppets, surreal objects, deliberately grotesque characters - everything comes to life, laughs, frightens and exposes.
It is a theater of allegories, where the comical and the terrifying coexist. Here, power is an eternal farce, cruelty is the flip side of laughter, and the viewer is a witness to the absurd, which suddenly becomes reality.
With this work, Wilson speaks about what must not be silenced: tyranny, barbarism, and human nature, which strives to repeat its most terrible cycles.
The performance has an accompanying audio text in English (with Robert Wilson's original voice) and Latvian.
Performance duration: 60 minutes