Eduards Smiļģis
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"The more fantastic, the more fervent, the bolder - the better!" This was the formula for the art of Eduards Smiļģis (1886-1966), the legendary reformer of the Latvian stage and the most remarkable man in 20th-century Latvian theatre. Calling someone "an actor of Smiļģis'" requires no further comment among lovers of culture in Latvia, though most have passed away. The Daile Theatre, an essential part of the cultural canon, was under Smiļģis' direction for over forty years. It was at the Daile that Smiļģis developed original and totally theatrical form of communication in which an artistic reality always took precedence over ordinary reality. His productions were modern in both form and content, characterized by their large scale and a symbiosis of different modernist approaches - Symbolism, Neo-Romanticism, Expressionism and commedia dell'arte - in an art all his own.
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