{"id":319,"date":"2024-09-30T21:37:41","date_gmt":"2024-09-30T21:37:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.barbaralehtna.com\/?p=319"},"modified":"2026-07-24T11:32:33","modified_gmt":"2026-07-24T11:32:33","slug":"monstera-deliciosa","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.barbaralehtna.com\/index.php\/2024\/09\/30\/monstera-deliciosa\/","title":{"rendered":"Monstera Deliciosa"},"content":{"rendered":"\t\t
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Monstera Deliciosa is a creeping vine with huge, serrated leaves that has been a popular decoration in clinics, schools, libraries, apartments, and private homes for more than 30 years. Under favorable conditions, the monstera grows rapidly and expands to fill the space around it. Nurturing plants and the well-being of others \u2013 the invisible day-to-day work of care is also carried out by the women around us, filling the empty spaces in the social landscape.<\/p>\n

\u201cMonstera Deliciosa\u201d brings together on stage four women from different generations to tell their own stories while singing the stories of other women. In a densely packed soundscape coexist the everyday worries of a public toilet attendant and the environmental concerns of a young ecofeminist, the desire to balance and strengthen the sometimes fragile bonds that unite and hold us together.<\/p>\n

The libretto was created by meeting and listening to women living in Latvia and Estonia who take care of plants and people around them in their daily lives, while the original music was created by transforming the genre of chamber opera through the tradition of choral singing that Latvians and Estonians share. Between the black earth and the plastic flowers, the creative team is looking for ways to grow, flourish, and be with each other in the world we inhabit.\u00a0<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t

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    \n\t\t\t\t\t\t\u201cSelf-ironically poeticizing the everyday life of women, the performance Monstera Deliciosa at \u0122ertr\u016bdes ielas te\u0101tris grows out of documentary life stories. Here, the \"fates\" of women and houseplants intersect. The creators of the show find the solution to the crumbling world order \u2013 both socio-politically and ecologically \u2013 nowhere else than in the concerns that grow out of the women's own hands.\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t
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    \n\t\t\t\t\t\t\u201cThe performance has a concrete progression and the ability to bear witness to its own time and space. At the same time, it combines the details of life inherited from previous generations with a contemporary view of how to live with them. Not what to do with them, how to change them, but how to stay in the same space with the past, the present and the future.\u201d\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t
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    \n\t\t\t\t\t\t\u201cMonstera Deliciosa grabs you with the sincerity of its characters. These are women who want to love and be loved, even if they don't say it out loud, but reduce their feelings to plants. These emotions evoke empathy in the audience.\u201d\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t
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    \n\t\t\t\t\t\t\u201cThe songs about evolution, lack of nutrients, poorly developed connective tissues and so on are really about something primal behind the words: caring and connecting with others. They speak of how every woman around us makes a small contribution to keeping the world together day by day, even if those gestures may seem insignificant or go unnoticed. How do we weave unity around ourselves when the twists and turns of life keep us drifting apart? Can plants save the world, even if just a little? And what role does one ordinary woman play in the birth of everyday small miracles? Some of the answers may well lie hidden in this production, alongside the questions.\u201d\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t
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    Co-produced by \u0122ertr\u016bdes ielas te\u0101tris (LV) and Paide Teater (EST)<\/p>

    Supported by State Culture Capital foundation of Latvia, Riga City Council, Cultural Endowment of Estonia, Nordic-Baltic Mobility Programme for Culture.<\/p>

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    Premiere: April, 2022 in Riga, Latvia and May, 2022 in Paide, Estonia<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/details>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

    Monstera Deliciosa is a creeping vine with huge, serrated leaves that has been a popular decoration in clinics, schools, libraries, apartments, and private homes for more than 30 years. Under favorable conditions, the monstera grows rapidly and expands to fill the space around it. Nurturing plants and the well-being of others \u2013 the invisible day-to-day […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":514,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-319","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.barbaralehtna.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/319","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.barbaralehtna.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.barbaralehtna.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.barbaralehtna.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.barbaralehtna.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=319"}],"version-history":[{"count":228,"href":"https:\/\/www.barbaralehtna.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/319\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1564,"href":"https:\/\/www.barbaralehtna.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/319\/revisions\/1564"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.barbaralehtna.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/514"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.barbaralehtna.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=319"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.barbaralehtna.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=319"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.barbaralehtna.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=319"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}