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What is it like to be the daughter of the almighty gods Zeus and Hera and always remain in the shadow of your parents? What is it like to be the first young woman in the history of the world and accept that this will never change? Maybe humanity, which we perceive as a weakness, is actually divine? Growing up is a journey in which we begin to move away from our childhood and embark on a conscious journey to discover our identity. However, only we ourselves know how bumpy and uneven this road is. What we present to the world is rarely what we really feel and experience. And deciding how much of this reality we want to show to others is a universal dilemma. So universal that even the first known young woman in the history of the world, the ancient Greek goddess of youth, Hebe, experienced it.
The cultural heritage of ancient Greece has given us a huge amount of values that we respect and value today – democracy, theatre, the Olympic Games. Yet the mythological heritage of Ancient Greece, which we have read, depicted, analyzed, and deconstructed through the ages stays most enigmatic. Over these millennia, the youngest of the goddesses – the teenage Hebe – has been unjustly given the least of voice, and this time we will finally let her speak.
A performance in which the theatre's no-photography rule will be put aside, as each member of the audience will have to take on the role of a photo correspondent to help Hebe tell her coming-of-age story.
Creative team
- Director:
- Roberts Dauburs
- Stage and costume designer:
- Justine Jasjukevica
- Composer:
- Tomass Ancs
- Light artist:
- Māra Anina
- Author of the illustration:
- Elvira Bekere
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