Performances 19.00–20.00, 21.00–22.00 and 23.00–24.00

“On a White Sheet at the White Night” is a series of three plays which will be performed on the open-air stage for large and small visitors by “Drawing Theatre”.

“Drawing Theatre” is a professional chamber theater of a unique theatre playing format combining drawing, music, dance and acting on a stage. The visitors will have a chance to watch the three performances: “Jakatas”, “Three Good Things” and “The Musical Workshop”.

• Performance “Jatakas” – show for the whole family!

Participants: Artūrs Putniņš – actor, Ance Muižniece – actress, Svetlana Jaņina – Indian dance

Director: Varis Klausītājs

Playwright: Sandija Santa

Choreographer: Agnese Bordjukova

Indian dances: Larisa Podskočaja

Painter: Lote Vilma Vītiņa

Alise Zaķīte is an inquisitive schoolgirl who is going to the Zoo with her father Gundars to have fun and celebrate Father’s Day. The tram journey turns into a great adventure. At the tram-stop “Children’s World” the wonders begin to happen and suddenly the tram transforms into a dream world – the place where you can meet the former inhabitants of children world – the responsible tram controller Lion, the rushing traveller Toad Mango and others not least interesting animals. Each stop is like an event where to experience a story, or an old jataka that Alise’s dad has heard from the smartest Indian storytellers.

Jataka stories have appeared around the 4th century and is the oldest Buddhism literature. They tell about previous lives of Buddha, both in the form of a human and animal and help to find answers to children’s questions. What happens when the rain eats up the sun? Why does a car tire burst? Why do people hide bunny’s ears under their hat? Yatakas encourage children and their parents to be observant, quick-witted and promote not to stop wondering about the flow of life and the people they encounter.

• Performance “Three Good Things” – show for the whole family!

Participants: Lelde Gusta – drawing, Varis Klausītājs – storyteller/improviser, Egils Leimanis – guitar

Director/Author of Idea: Varis Klausītājs

The actor on three blackboards is drawing with chalk and telling the story about the Mother of Happiness whose gives to hostess the opportunity to wish three things that will come true at once. Of course, she thinks it is a joke and wastes her first wish, then her husband recklessly tells her the second wish in anger, and her third wish is used to save the one expressed by her husband in anger.

Later the Mother of Happiness approach all images offered by spectators and fulfills their expressed desires. The learning of the performance is to show how difficult it is to wish a good thing. And in the result we get a pretty funny mirror of spectators.

At the end of the show the spectators can add their version to the drawing using chalk.

• Performance “The Musical Workshop” for adults of all age!

Participants: Painter – Ingrīda Ivane, Musician – Aleksejs Bahirs, Improviser – Varis Klausītājs

Director/Author of Idea: Varis Klausītājs

Performance—improvisation, in which three artists of different occupations improvise with an audience. The show’s content and drawing are unique. The show will begin with impromptu musical compositions that will characterise images that viewers would like to see on the show.

The painter is improvising too as the viewers are involved in creation of heroes and events, so it is not known in advance what to draw. Parallel to ongoing events and impromptu songs, even dances, the process of making a big drawing on the stage wall is on. At the end of the show the viewers will have the opportunity to try their own hand in drawing and to add to the big picture.

Organiser: the association “Uzzīmē teātri” and the association “Rīgas Spīķeri”

Supported by: Riga City Council