Ladies | Latvia

Filled with tragicomic moments, Ladies (Dāmas) is a story about love, independence and… meatballs. The play explores the affectionate and strained relationship between three generations of women who share a small flat in a decrepit district of the post-Soviet city of Riga. Despite their best intentions, the grandmother Marija (born during World War II), the daughter Stanislava (born during the USSR occupation), and the granddaughter Kitty (born the year the Iron Curtain fell) are in constant conflict with each other. It escalates when Kitty returns home late, and a gun falls out of her back-pocket.