International Festival of Contemporary Theatre
Programme
Of All The People In All The World
7-11 November 16.00-20.00, LMS Gallery | Free entrance
Of All The People In All The World uses grains of rice to bring formally abstract statistics to startling and powerful life. Each grain of rice is one person and you are invited to compare the one grain that is you to the millions that are not. Over a period of days a team of performers carefully weigh out quantities of rice to represent a host of human statistics: the populations of towns and cities; the number of doctors, the number of soldiers; the number of people born each day, the number who die; all the people who have walked on the moon; deaths in the holocaust.
The statistics are arranged in labelled piles creating an ever changing landscape of rice. The statistics and their juxtapositions can be moving, shocking, celebratory, witty and thought provoking.
About artist
Stan’s Cafe is a collective of artists founded in 1991 in Birmingham, UK. They create experimental theatre, visual and live art projects and develop educational activities. Considered as one of the most innovative British theatre collectives, Stan’s Cafe continuously tries out new formats and narratives placing humour and active engagement in the core of their work.
Credits
Artistic Director: James Yarker
Associate Director: Craig Stephens
Executive Producer: Roisin Caffrey
Administrator: Jessie Coller
Performers: Sarah Archdeacon, Gerard Bell, Amy Taylor and Jack Trow
Local guides: Marta Lortkipanidze, Kristīne Katrīna Liniņa
Stan’s Cafe workshops for schoolchildren
8-11 November, LMS Gallery at 11.novembra krastmala 35
How many people in Latvia have a mobile phone? How many people in Riga are walking to work today? How many millionaires in the world are there? How many Latvians fled to Sweden in boats during WWII?
Theatre company Stan’s Cafe offers 8 workshops for schoolchildren giving an opportunity to students from Rīga, Ādaži, Jaunburtnieki and Jūrmala to search for answers to these and many other questions, discover new and exciting facts about global interdependencies, demography, historical and current events, economics, politics and other topics, as well as reflect on their own place and connection to this magnitude of seemingly abstract statistical data, which can become deeply personal and thus unforgettable.
The workshop on Wednesday, 9 November at 10.00 is open for applications from students aged 9 – 18 by writing to liene@kanepes.lv until 8 November. Duration 1,5 h, in English and Latvian, free admission.
Workshops are supported by British Council Latvia.
7-11
November
16.00-20.00
Free entrance
Language
In Latvian and English
Run time
Work can be seen at any time during the opening hours
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