Gennadiy Ostrovskiy

TWO CAPTAINS/A Melodramatic Comedy in 2 Acts/

Translated from Russian by Aina Vecsīle

Premiere: 21 September, 2014

 

 

In Moscow on New Year’s Eve on the 31st of December, the most extraordinary things can happen and people who would never otherwise meet, do. There’s an unsuccessful burglar, an unsuccessful suicider, unsuccessful lovers and even a strange looking penguin and a white bear.

 

People aren’t all the same and see the same thing differently. But how can you live together with a person who isn’t prepared to die with you on the same day? There is however a certainty that the New Year will be better than the previous. There were many good things in the last, but this one will be even better, it cannot be otherwise.

And Moscow doesn’t believe in tears!

 

Gennady Ostrovsky (1960 - ) is a Russian screen writer, film director and producer. His screen plays have received a series of prestigious cinema awards, and directors like Pavel Lungin, Valery Todorovsky, Filip Jankovic and others, have made films from them.

 

 

Performers: Ģirts Ķesteris (Viktor Sergeyevich, owner of the apartment), Lauris Subatnieks (Kolya, the hopeless burglar), Lauris Dzelzītis (Vladimir, a police lieutenant), Dārta Daneviča (Nina, a strange girl), Intars Rešetins (Roma, Nina’s fiancée), Agnese Zeltiņa (Nina’s mother), Inita Dzelme (Zenya, Nina‘s younger sister), Hugo Lejiņš, Edgars Baburs or Krišjānis Upmalis (Fima), Sarmīte Rubule (Fima’s mother), Ivars Auziņš (Her ex-husband, “the American”) Mārtiņš Počs, Aldis Siliņš, Dainis Gaidelis (penguins / couriers with a Christmas tree / guest workers from southern republics) Aminata Diarra (an American girl)

 

Director – Gennadiy Ostrovskiy (Russia)

Set Designer – Kristians Brekte

Costume Designer – Anna Heinrihsone

Choreographer – Kārlis Božs

Lighting Designer – Ronalds Kļaviņš