A non-profit organisation created to carry out cultural projects
Is a non-profit organisation created to carry out cultural projects. Its primary focus is theatre, but it is not limited to it. What would the Stage be without either Literature or Music, without either Artistic Direction or Sets, without either Costumes or Dances, without Posters?
Ambition is to gather the necessary funding and to technically support, outside traditional commercial channels, innovative projects with real creative value as well as projects allowing restoration and renewal of the sometimes-forgotten genius of those who have gone before us, or even projects which, through universal values, strengthen the links between cultures. We believe in the power of ideas and the Arts to strengthen civil society.
The idea germinated in the spring of 2020, when the entire planet was confined and, almost everywhere, the world of Culture suffered more than others from the measures taken to roll back the COVID-19 pandemic. Closed rooms, rehearsals prohibited, travel made impossible, filming, shooting or fittings postponed to unknown dates… To survive, Theatre had to reinvent itself.
French music accompanied by the beat quartet "The Kruasans" and screening of a short film directed by Maria de Valukoff "In one breath"
The international creative association TEATRO FABRICA opened a new season – July 15, 2022. At 19:30 in the Small Hall of the Dzintari Concert Hall in Jurmala. Two premieres took place at once, based on French musical and film culture: a concert, Just Flirting, inspired by French music of the 60-70s of the 20th century in the style of pop, garage rock, psychedelic rock, chanson and the screening of a short film directed by Maria de Valukhoff On one breath, filmed in Riga based on the short story The Marseille Ghost by Jean Cocteau.
The popular Latvian actors Rihards Lepers and Maksim Busel, as well as Maria de Valukhoff, accompanied by the beat quartet The Croissants, appeared on both the stage and the screen.
Opera Ballet
Premiere: August 18, 19, 20 and 21, 2021
The libretto is based on a portion of a cycle of 101 erotic tankas Scarlet Ink on Black Silk, a book written by the Japanese poetess Yokko Irinati who lived in the Heian period (Ninth to Twelfth centuries), translated by Natalia Bogatova and Irina Ermakova. "Yokko the White Butterfly" is how Irinati sometimes signed her poems. The cycle was written in the tradition of the anthology of Japanese poetry known as Manyoshu, the dedication to flowers, trees, fog, rain, and love ballads. Additionally, one of the plot lines of the libretto has been borrowed from the story "Tattoo" by Tanizaki Junichiro (1910).
"Yokko the White Butterfly" is the quintessential audio-visual embodiment of the aesthetics of Eastern culture, where medieval Japanese erotic poetry and meditative sounds of traditional Japanese instruments harmoniously intertwine in a modern cut of spectacular video projections and distinctive scenography. This is a story about the influence of the East on modernity, about people turning again to ancient practices...
Chamber performance based on the same-named short story by Alexander Pushkin
Developing the tradition of dacha theater, which arose within the avant-garde movement of the early 20th century, the historical wooden building of a family dacha in Jurmala was chosen as a stage for an experimental performance lasting a little over an hour. It was this particular solution that turned out to be the only possible one in the context of a pandemic and a de facto ban on public events. The genre of the performance can be described as ‘mystical anecdote’. It meant for four actors and combines drama, opera and choreography. The work is dedicated to the memory of the Russian actor Viktor Proskurin, for whom the role of Hermann in the movie "The Queen of Spades" became the most important in his career.
Stage Director: Maria de Valukhoff
Set Designer: Evgeniy Raitses
Composer: Vladimir Beluntsov
Choreographer: Laura Gorodko
Designer: Igor Gurovich
Based on the works "The Thunderstorm" by A. Ostrovsky and "A Sky Blue Life" by M. Gorky
Based on the minute-by-minute chronicle of the insanity of poet Mironov, who lives in a remote provincial town, the story describes a «little man» who is unable to understand himself, to define the boundaries of good and evil, and to combine love and thirst for freedom. Living among people without aspirations and dreams, he in contrast to them desires to rise above the ordinary in an attempt to feel unlike everyone else, and so invents for himself a different "blue Parisian life". The protagonist imagines happiness alternately as Chagall's hovering with Bella over the city in the painting "Over the Town", or as Natalia Goncharova's ‘The Blue Cow’, and as the ‘Blue House‘, also by Chagall. Mironov hears the deafening sounds of crickets and the clink of dishes like disturbing music, indicating that his illusory world has been disturbed.
Director: Maria de Valukhoff
Artist: Evgeniy Raitses
Composer: Vladimir Beluntsov
Poet: Natalia Bogatova
Documentary To the 130th anniversary of the birth of Anna Akhmatova
The documentary reconstructs the love story of poetess Anna Akhmatova and monumental artist Boris Anrep, starting with the first meeting of the heroes in 1914 and ending with the death of Boris in 1969. The narrative unfolds against the backdrop of key political, cultural, and social events of the Twentieth century; the film includes footage of documentary chronicles of World War I and II, the October Revolution, the Roaring Twenties in England and Germany, the confrontation between the powers during the Cold War and others.
Chronicles seem to be strung on the thread of relationships and their tragic denouement stretched in time.
Scriptwriter and director: Maria Misozhnikova
Motion Series About Hollywood legend Yul Brynner
Yul was born in Vladivostok to the family of Boris and Marusya Briners, who were of Russian, Buryat and Swiss descent. In the 1930s, the family moved to Paris, where Yul met a Dimitrievich couple, a famous Romani clan that performed at a popular Russian restaurant ‘Rasputin’. This acquaintance determined the future career of Brynner: his first appearance on the stage was his entrance singing a gypsy romance, accompanied by thirty guitars. After meeting theatre teacher Mikhail Chekhov, Yul began to enthusiastically engage in acting and went to New York following the master, where he immediately found himself in the thick of things.
Written and directed by Maria de Valukhoff
Art director: Evgeniy Raitses
Opera Based on the play "The English Cat" by Hans Werner Henze
"The English Cat in Münster" is an enchanting colorful production, an elegant synthesis of exciting music, brilliant vocals, bold modern drama and fantastic costumes. The musical basis of the production is the work "The English Cat" ("Die englische Katze"), by the outstanding Twentieth century German composer, Hans Werner Henze, (1926–2012) based on a short story by the French writer Honore de Balzac. The opera libretto is based on Balzac's essay "The Heart Sufferings of an English Cat" from the famous satirical collection Scenes of the Private and Public Life of Animals...
Director: Maria de Valukhoff
Artist: Igor Gurovich
Choreographer: Artur Oshchepkov
Costume Designer: Yana Lopatto
Dramatics based on the novel Santa Evita by the Argentine writer Tomas Eloy Martinez
"The Doll" is a joint international project of TEATRO FABRICA and the Moscow-based Vlada Zakharova Studio Theatre of Argentine tango with the support of the Embassy of Argentina in Moscow. The play will be presented at the Buenos Aires International Theatre Festival (FIBA), with the premiere of the production scheduled for September 2022.
A fast-paced, completely classy production in the road-movie genre skilfully combines dramatic action, live sound, and choreographic improvisation on the theme of the tango. It is a burning cocktail of an almost mystical plot about the adventures of the corpse of the world's most famous Argentinian, Eva Peron...
Director: Maria de Valukhoff
Choreographer: Vladlena Zakharova
Musical Fairy Tale based on the play by Ernst T.A.Hoffmann
An outstanding and colourful musical performance, "Princess Blandina" masterly applies the principle of the Sixteenth century tradition of square theatre into the system of modern performances.
The plot is based on the play "Turandot" by Carlo Gozzi as expounded by the German romantic writer Hoffmann. The author fully preserves the structure of the Italian commedia dell'arte with its main characters Truffaldino, Pantalone, Brighella, and others.
The play "Princess Blandina" uses an innovative technique wherein the director combines the classic construction of Italian folk comedy of masks with a non-standard stage approach, each character playing two roles.
Director: Maria de Valukhoff
Spectacle based on the novel Two She-Bears by Meir Shalev
Meir Shalev is one of the most famous contemporary Israeli writers. The son of Jewish immigrants from Eastern Europe, he tells poignant modern parables about Jewish settlements and draws on plots that are extremely close to the biblical ones. The nostalgia for childhood, roots, atmosphere, which is relevant for all times, will be especially close to the Riga audience. This is the history of a country that many left in the 1990s, and which is remembered with love and quiet sadness.
In the novel Two She-Bears (2013), genuine human passions are seething. The story unfolds like an exciting detective story told from the perspective of a woman who has been given the right to talk about the most intimate experiences.
Director: Maria de Valukhoff
Artist: Igor Gurovich
To submit a project to Teatro Fabrica
If you have a project that corresponds to the cultural values supported by TEATRO FABRICA and you seek help from us, do not hesitate to contact us. Our artistic committee meets once a month and therefore regularly reviews proposed projects.
To start, provide a precise description of your project in the form you will deem fit, how it corresponds to the values and the mission of our organisation, and exactly what role you would like TEATRO FABRICA to play. Please feel free to attach pictorial, audio, or video examples.
Projects should be submitted by email to: projects@teatrofabrica.org
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We develop new ideas with a real creative force, especially those that go off the well-trodden path. We believe the genius of the past can be expressed again in a contemporary world or the future as long as a creator discovers a new form of expression. We can collect financial support and provide technical assistance or even distribution.
The values of the projects we seek to develop must be those that make it possible to strengthen a free civil society, whatever the cultural, ethnic, or religious context: respect, openness, knowledge and appreciation of others and their cultures, equality, secularism of the State, but also excellence in the Arts.
Alex de Valukhoff
Managing Director
We don't think that "new" necessarily means "better" — quality should take precedence over innovation. We do not believe in the durability of the classical expression of any work whatsoever: you have to know how to translate it artfully into a contemporary language.
We are not a traditional commercial channel for distributing artistic works. We are apolitical, open to all thoughts and religions but closed to all extremism; open to all healthy and transparent forms of communication but closed to any propaganda, mediocrity or demagoguery.
Maria de Valukhoff
Artistic Director
Teatro Fabrica – is a non-profit association aimed at developing cultural projects, registered under the laws of the Republic of Latvia under number 40008303760, and as such subject to public financial declarations according to the Associations and Foundations Law
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