Thelma and Louise

Two friends—a frustrated housewife and an independent shopkeeper—decide to escape for a couple of days from their tiresome home life, and from their equally tiresome and abusive husband and boyfriend and their predictable demands. On the trip, while defending their freedom as women, the two commit a crime against their will, and a desperate flight begins. The people they meet along the way are a mirror of society at this moment. When a theatre has two actresses like Elīna Vāne and Ieva Puķe, this story simply has to be staged. “I absolutely love this piece! It’s a situation in which a person begins to understand the word freedom,” says director Juris Rijnieks. Director Ridley Scott’s film Thelma & Louise hit screens in 1991, making it the ideal road movie. The production received nominations in the categories of the 2025/2026 Spēlmaņu nakts season: