William Shakespeare
ROMEO AND JULIET
A tragedy in 2 acts
Director - Inese Mičule
Set Designer - Mārtiņš Vilkārsis
Costume Designer - Ilze Vītoliņa,
Movement Director - Elīna Gediņa
Composer - Emīls Zilberts
Lighting Designer - Oskars Pauliņš
Cast: Sandis Runge, Diāna Krista Stafecka, Aigars Apinis, Kārlis Freimanis, Eduards Johansons, Januss Johansons, Ingus Kniploks,Māra Mennika, Inese Pudža, Ģirts Rāviņš, Klinta Reinholde, Krišjānis Strods, Elīna Vāne, Rūdis Bīviņš
“Even today I am very concerned about the question of the purity of love,” says director Inese Mičule. Through the filter of Italy's modern “golden youth” and the filter of the Sicilian mafia, through the crowds of tourists in the little courtyard in Verona by Juliet's house, the director and her team will seek a clear voice of love untouched by the crowd and everyday life. “This myth still raises the question of how the young people of two hostile families were able, through their love, to stand so firmly against the order of the world,” says the director.
Shakespeare scholars and anti-Shakespeare scholars tirelessly build folios of evidence - who actually wrote William Shakespeare's immortal works? But the plays, regardless of authorship, live their own lives and challenge ever new interpretations. Valmiera Theatre is convinced that every generation needs its own Juliet and Romeo. Today's young people get West Side Story, Vija Artmane and Eduards Pāvuls, their cheeks pressed together in a romantic little picture with frilly borders, and even Leonardo DiCaprio and Claire Danes, lovebirds of Baz Luhrmann's film “rolled in pop-culture breadcrumbs” (film critic Dita Rietuma), are still only cultural quotations from history.
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The production was created with the support of the Boris and Ināra Teterev Foundation in Valmiera Theatre's 2026/2027 season.
With the support of the foundation, the following reached audiences in the 2026/2027 season: Fear and Misery of the Third Reich (director Indra Roga). In the 2025/2026 season: Evil Spirit (director Inese Mičule), Medea (director Reinis Suhanovs), You Will Be Mine! (director Jānis Znotiņš), Skroderdienas in Silmači (director Elmārs Seņkovs). In the 2024/2025 season: Romeo and Juliet (director Inese Mičule), Blue (director Māra Ķimele), Sprīdītis (director Reinis Suhanovs), Four White Shirts (director Jānis Znotiņš), and The Magic Mountain (director Toms Treinis).
The friendship between the theatre and the foundation began in the 2023/2024 season, the theatre's centenary season, when four works from Latvian dramatic classics were staged: Valmiera Boys (director Jānis Znotiņš), The Widow's Son (director Viesturs Roziņš), as well as the especially acclaimed Joseph and His Brothers (director Inese Mičule) and The Prodigal Son (director Reinis Suhanovs).
