“Everything’s fine, except the mess we’re in”, are the words detained young people use to describe their lives in the Cēsis youth detention center. “Everything’s fine” is also the name of a theater project in which dramatists from Latvia and Italy worked with young offenders in the colony for six months. [..]

In six months, six inmates of the youth detention center, working together with directors Alberto di Gennaro, Ilze Mazpane and Kristīne Ļeontjeva, have staged a play “Everything’s fine”.

The young people, the few that have made it through to the staging, are impersonating a chauffeur, a dancer, an auto mechanic, an athlete and a sage. (Read more.)

Cēsis, 2015

Photos: Kristīne Auniņa