Gunārs Priede THE BLUE ONE, dir. Māra Ķimele VALMIERA THEATRE

This performance, staged by Māra Ķimele—a legendary Latvian theatre director and pedagogue, and granddaughter of pioneering female theatre director Anna Asja Lācis—delves into a poignant family tragedy. Written in the 1970s by playwright Gunārs Priede, the play draws parallels between family dynamics and the Latvian nation as a whole. Named after the blue cow, a breed with light blue or dark ultramarine hides once found only on the Baltic coast in the Kurzeme region and driven almost extinct
during Soviet times, the narrative raises profound questions about guilt, memory, identity and forgiveness.