Not Everyone Will Be Taken into the Future
A tragic farce about absence, ambition, and exodus. 2019–2020
A country on its knees. A generation on the move. A cast of young people caught in a performative ritual—trying to elect the one who will “lift the nation” and carry it forward. But the deeper they dig, the more they spiral into self-interest, fear, and inertia.
Not Everyone Will Be Taken into the Future is a multilingual performance—in Russian, Latvian, and Polish—that tackles one of the region’s most urgent questions: What happens when no one wants to stay?
Set against the backdrop of demographic collapse and mass emigration, the performance blends personal storytelling with absurdist theatre. Each actor begins by sharing their real-life plans to leave Latvia—not as confession, but as provocation. What emerges is a harsh, ironic, and painfully honest portrait of a society waiting for a new hero—a new Christ, Józef, or Karl—to save it from decay. But what if no one is coming?
This production doesn’t offer easy answers. Instead, it invites audiences to laugh, squirm, and recognize themselves in a generation caught between cynicism and the longing to believe in something more.