136:. Today, it is located at Brīvības Street 75, Riga, Latvia in functionalism architecture style building with three halls: large hall, small hall and chamber hall. It is typical for the theater to stage large-scale and dramatically tense performances of the form, as well as talk about significant personalities of history and culture of its time. According to the director these performances reflect the guidelines set out in the theatrical motto - clarity, simplicity, passion. The theater repertoire includes works by both Latvian and foreign authors.
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The building is characterized by a consistent, functionally differentiated volume arrangement and spacious, interconnected rooms. The main facade of the theater forms a glassed viewer's lobby, stretching along BrÄ«vÄ«bas Street. Above it there is a theatrical logotype interpreted by the sculptor OjÄrs
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In 1959 the architect Marta StaÅa (1913-1972) won a competition organized by Smiļģis and created a new building project located at BrÄ«vÄ«bas Street 75, Riga, Latvia. The Dailes
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The theater style has always been different from that so-called natural-psychological theater style. According to the principal director Smiļģis, the theater ādoes not strive for a complete illusion (and the actor is not a life imitator), but, while making plays, creates a reality of art that is
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The Large hall is devoted to the widest range of performances, attracting a wide audience of viewers: dramas, comedies, tragedies, musical performances, children's shows and for concerts, whereas the
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The first year of the theater was difficult in the material sense, since everything was based only on employee enthusiasm, but the money was gradually raised and the theater gained the audience's appreciation.
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Feldbergs (born in 1947). The lobby of the dark bricks contrasts with the bright concrete and glass surfaces on the wide front floor.
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