Liepāja Theatre guest performance "An Ordinary Monday"

Director - Valters Sīlis

A collage of working days

Everyone has their own rhythm for how we wake up to go to work. Some wake up several hours before leaving the house so they can slowly prepare for the day. Others - at the last minute, getting ready in a rush. It is Monday morning, and for many it is the first day after the weekend. Some have a shift schedule and a day off may be tomorrow. Almost every job, when seen from the outside, seems either too physically hard, too boring, too stressful, but the people who do that work have found their own rhythm in it, their own technique, and their own joy and satisfaction in what they do. But there are jobs that, from the outside, seem almost impossible, and yet people still do them. There are people who, in their everyday lives, come to know the full palette of human character and are in direct contact with the lives, dramas, and fateful choices of countless people.

The performance will follow the ordinary everyday life of six characters, which for many of us would perhaps be the most extraordinary day. What do these characters' everyday lives reveal about the environment in which we actually live and often choose not to notice? How do the characters in the performance learn to live with the fact that their Mondays are far from ordinary, unlike ours?

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Text created by and performed by: Anete Rimkus, Karīna Tatarinova, Laura Jeruma, Sandis Pēcis, Edgars Ozoliņš, Kārlis Ērglis

Artist - Ieva Kauliņa

Music - Gatis Krievāns

Lighting designer - Viesturs Andersons

Premiere on 16 January 2026 in the small hall of Liepāja Theatre at the concert hall "Great Amber"