Daile Theater. The first 50 years are spent in the sign of Eduards Smiļģis / LR1 / / Latvijas Radio

November 19, 1920 is the date when a new theater appears in Riga, Latvia, which is destined to live these hundred years. This is the Daile Theater, and this theater has been dedicated to conversation for a hundred years In the eyes of these days. The historian of the theater tells the story, the head of the E. Smiļģis Theater Museum Jānis Siliņš.

In the creation of Daile Theater and in fact the first half of the century is connected with the name of director Eduards Smiļģis. It is probably necessary to start with what was the basis of Eduards Smiļģis’ creative spirit, how it fit into the general picture of theatrical aesthetics of its time in Latvia and also more broadly.

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