Remembrance Day
From: Friday, 18th March 2011
To: Saturday, 16 April 2011
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Synopsis
"You can't tell which ones are still fascists and which ones aren't, since they're all dressed up in the same uniform." Can you be a hero if you fought for Nazi Germany? The Latvians who fought for the Third Reich and halted the Red Army parade as heroes every year through the streets of Riga. As a growing number of young Russians campaign to halt the ‘fascist’ march, their Latvian counterparts join the veterans in commemoration. When teenager Anya becomes a political activist, her father’s attempts to calm the situation stirs up a storm of extremist patriotism. Remembrance Day takes an unflinching look at the fight for the political soul of Latvia.
Our Review:
24 March 2011
The internal politics of Latvia, never the likeliest topic at the bar of the Dog and Duck, made a surprise appearance on the agenda of the last General Election when David Cameron was accused of consorting with Latvian neo-Nazis in the European Parliament.
The fuss centred on an annual commemoration in the Baltic state of a battle between the country’s Waffen SS divisions and the Soviet Army in 1944. This remains a matter of burning controversy in Latvia, and if anyone felt under-served by the debate at the time, it’s the subject of a new play at the Royal Court’s Jerwood Theatre Upstairs by Aleksey Scherbak, a Russian-speaker based in Riga.
It would be easy to mock this subject as obscure, and you do need to be an anorak of sorts to make the effort. But it’s not without interest. In the West we tend to forget that Stalin was just as horrific as Hitler for many persecuted Eastern Europeans, if not worse. It’s alarming to discover that a potentially murderous argument ...
Cast
Ewan Hooper (Valdis)
Sam Kelly (Paulis)
Ruby Bentall
Nick Court
Michelle Fairley
Michael Nardone
Luke Norris
Iwan Rheon
Struan Rodger
Creative
Aleksey Scherbak (Author)
Royal Court (Producer)
Rory Mullarkey (Translation)
Michael Longhurst (Director)
Tom Scutt (Design)
David Holmes (Lighting)
Ben Ringham (Music)
Max Ringham (Music)
Ben Ringham (Sound)
Max Ringham (Sound)
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