Close-up. Jēkabs Reinis

A conversation with the audience

GUEST PERFORMANCE

I call myself a child of the Latvian National Theatre. I grew up in this theatre, watched what went on backstage, later stepped onto its stage myself and acted in productions. But the path to finding my calling was neither short nor straight.

This will be a story about my path - about choices, searching, coincidences, and the people who have shaped me. About theatre and film, about what I experienced backstage and the events that stayed with me long after the stage lights went out and the cameras fell silent.

I want to shape this evening as a conversation with the audience - open, personal, and alive. Without distance between the stage and the hall. With stories, memories, humor, and poetry too.

Perhaps it will be a story about the acting profession. Perhaps about how a person searches for their place in the world. But perhaps together we will discover that these two stories are actually one and the same.