Based on motifs from Justs Tertelis' play
SĀKUMS
A monodrama about the birth of a young actor
Director - Elmārs Seņkovs
Assistant director - Aksels Aizkalns
Costume designer - Ilze Vītoliņa
Lighting designer - Gatis Priednieks
Starring - Kristaps Kristers Ozols
A guy from Kandava fulfills one of his dreams - to become an actor. This is a story about how an actor is born, about the path in which a person searches for the answer to the question of what it actually takes to call oneself one? He challenges himself to step out in front of an audience, take the first step onto the stage, and begin his path in art. But what is needed for this beginning? Courage? Discontent? Inspiration? Maybe all at once. The performance Sākums is both a funny and a piercing personal story about a young person's desire to reach the heights of theater and at the same time understand who he himself is. Will he succeed? It is still only the beginning - but this very moment is the most important one.
Although in his debut season the young actor Kristaps Kristers Ozols is no longer a stranger to the Valmiera Theatre stage, this time will be special, because he is creating this monodrama together with the director, his teacher Elmārs Seņkovs, and the director's assistant, Kristaps' theater godfather, Valmiera Theatre actor Aksels Aizkalns. Together they are searching for that special moment - the moment before the performance begins. What is this moment? Can this moment be decisive and change his life? From this moment, his path begins.
Premiere - January 30, 2026, at KURTUVE
