Mother's milk

(Translated from Latvian by Laura Laurušaitė)

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Screenwriter, director, and performer – Birutė Mar Composer – Antanas Kučinskas Set designer – Indrė Pačėsaitė Choreographer, assistant director – Sigita Mikalauskaitė Video projection designer – Karolis Bratkauskas Lighting designer – Audrius Jankauskas

Vocalist Virginija Skirmantė participates in the performance

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Birutė Mar's new play "Mother's Milk" is based on the novel by the well-known contemporary Latvian writer Nora Ikstena. It is a story of a mother and daughter in Soviet Latvia from 1969 to 1989, as well as the history of the country from Soviet stagnation to the declaration of independence. Everything is very recognizable – the Soviet school, the chilling ruthlessness of the system, and the premonition of approaching freedom… Also, looking back at the not-so-distant past raises essential questions about the states and choices of our modern society.

In the play, Birutė Mar creates two roles – the mother and the daughter. The mother is a doctor, the daughter of an exile, from whom the Soviet government takes everything: not only her professional future and identity but also the joy and meaning of life. Her daughter is the opposite of her mother, naturally full of a lust for life. This is a story about the emotional wall of ice with which the mother shuts herself off from her daughter – out of love and a desire to protect. About a lack of love that acts as a salvation; about an environment where everything turns into poison – even mother's milk.

More information about the play and photos from the performance can be found on our website: https://soloteatras.lt/spektakliai/motinos-pienas/