It is one of the art world’s greatest scandals. In 2004, a businessman and his wife bought a painting by expressionist painter Mark Rothko for 8.3 million dollars. They had fallen in love with it on sight. Only, as it turns out years later, it wasn’t painted by Rothko, but by a Chinese migrant from Queens. Can a forged painting trigger real feelings? What defines the value of art? What, in fact, is art? On a film set that is constantly changing – from a Chinese restaurant to the White Cube gallery – Polish director Łukasz Twarkowski and the cast of twelve investigate the relationship between original and copy, the real and the virtual, between vitality and representation. ROHTKO is a spectacular theatre production with loud beats and an intimate live film at once.
Direction Lukasz Twarkowski Text, Dramaturgy Anka Herbut With Juris Bar Bartkevičs, Kaspars Dumburs, Ērika Eglija-Grāvele / Ilze Ķuzule-Skrastiņa, Yan Huang, Andrzej Jakubczyk, Rēzija Kalniņa, Katažina Osipuka Katarzyna Osipuk, Artūrs Skrastiņš, Mārtiņš Upenieks, Vita Vārpiņa, Toms Veličko, Xiaochen Wang Set design Fabien Lédé Costume Svenja Gassen Choreography Pawel Sakowicz Music Lubomir Grzelak Video Jakub Lech Light design Eugenijus Sabaliauskas Direction assistance Mārtiņš Gūtmanis, Diāna Kaijaka, Adam Zduńczyk Costume assistance Bastian Stein Playwrighting assistance Linda Šterna Video design assistance Adam Zduńczyk Camera Arturs Gruzdiņš, Jonatāns Goba Stage management Iveta Boša Production management Ginta Tropa International Production, Distribution Vidas Bizunevicius (NewError) Translation into Latvian Ingmāra Balode Translation into English Ingmāra Balode, Anka Herbut, Linda Šterna Translation rehearsals Diāna Kaijaka, Elza Marta Ruža
Production Dailes Theatre (Latvia) In Cooperation with JK Opole Theater (Poland) Supported by Adam Mickiewicz Institute (Poland) and The Ministry of Culture and National Heritage of the Republic of Poland International production and distribution NewError
Premiere March 2022, Dailes Theatre (Riga)
