{"id":5237,"date":"2022-05-12T06:55:43","date_gmt":"2022-05-12T03:55:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/2024.eestinoorsooteater.ee\/uudised\/first-baltic-visual-theatre-showcase-takes-place-tallinn\/"},"modified":"2025-10-17T13:53:38","modified_gmt":"2025-10-17T10:53:38","slug":"first-baltic-visual-theatre-showcase-takes-place-tallinn","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.eestinoorsooteater.ee\/en\/news\/first-baltic-visual-theatre-showcase-takes-place-tallinn\/","title":{"rendered":"The first Baltic Visual Theatre Showcase takes place in Tallinn"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Estonian Theatre for Young Audiences along with its colleagues from Latvia and Lithuania will hold the first\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.eestinoorsooteater.ee\/en\/festival\/productions\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Baltic Visual Theatre Showcase<\/a>\u00a0from 27th to 29th May. The festival programme comprises 13 productions and 21 performances from Lithuania, Latvia and Estonia.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The aim of the festival is to open a door for local theatre makers to international stages. At the same time, our local audience will have a chance to experience Baltic visual theatre, and international festival organizers to see the level of visual theatres of Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania. The\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.eestinoorsooteater.ee\/en\/festival\/productions\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">festival program\u00a0<\/a>includes productions for (small) children as well as young and adult viewers.<\/p>\n<p>Three festival days are filled with productions of theatres with mainly puppet theatre background, but the programme also includes other interesting searches from visual theatre landscapes. Festival manager Leino Rei says that the audience will see both classical puppet theatre as well as exciting searches from visual theatre landscapes, detective stories as well as puppet circus, unconstrained\u00a0<em>joie de vivre\u00a0<\/em>as well as topical and emotional journeys.<\/p>\n<p>Participants from Latvia are Gertrud Street Theatre, Liep\u0101ja Puppet Theatre, Latvia Puppet Theatre and Rezekne Theatre Yorick; and from Lithuania the Kaunas Puppet Theatre, Vilnius Table Theatre, Vilnius Theatre Lele and Klaipeda Puppet Theatre.<\/p>\n<p>Two of the Estonian Theatre for Young Audiences\u2019 festival productions \u2013\u00a0<em>Topsy-Turvy<\/em>\u00a0(dir.\u00a0<strong>Leino Rei<\/strong>) and\u00a0<em>YLT<\/em>\u00a0(dir.\u00a0<strong>Renate Keerd<\/strong>) \u2013 will be performed in English;\u00a0<em>The Scarlet Umbrella<\/em>\u00a0(dir.\u00a0<strong>Karl Sakrits<\/strong>) is without text. In addition to the Theatre for Young Audiences, productions from Estonia also include Kellertheatre\u2019s\u00a0\u00a0<em>Emilie Sag\u00e9e<\/em>\u00a0(dir.\u00a0<strong>Kersti Heinloo<\/strong>\u00a0and\u00a0<strong>Riho Aadla<\/strong>) and Russian Theatre\u2019s\u00a0<em>Vasenka<\/em>\u00a0(dir.\u00a0<strong>Daniil Zandberg<\/strong>), both without text.<\/p>\n<p>Most of the productions have no text, the rest are performed in English or equipped with subtitles in Estonian and English. Performances are given in four venues in Tallinn: Estonian Theatre for Young Audiences, Sakala 3 theatre house, Kanuti Gild\u2019s SAAL and Russian Theatre.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe wish to thank everyone who has supported the festival \u2013 the Baltic Culture Fund of the Cultural Endowment of Estonia, the Ministry of Culture, organizations supporting culture such as Tallink Hotels, \u00dchisteenused, A Le Coq, Maiasmokk and Elke Auto; and our volunteers, whose help is crucial to the smooth running of the festival,\u201d said Leino Rei. \u201cA big thank you to all who have contributed their time and effort.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The festival is organized in cooperation with Vilnius Theatre Lele and the international children\u2019s and youth theatres\u2019 association ASSITEJ Latvian National Centre. The first Baltic Visual Theatre Showcase is hosted by Estonia; in two years, Lithuania will be the host, and then it will be Latvia\u2019s turn to host the festival. Every two years, theatres perform to international festival organizers and local audiences.<\/p>\n<p>Estonian Theatre for Young Audiences is a theatre for the young viewer, which in its productions looks for an enriching dialogue of moving content and form. Visual theatre is one of its important means of expression. The theatre comprises the Museum of Puppetry Arts and the international visual theatre festival Tallinn Treff. 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