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Former actress of the Youth Theater Anda Zaice (born June 11, 1941) passed away on January 23, 2024.
anda Zaice was one of the leading actresses of the Youth theater for almost 30 years. She graduated from the 3rd study of the Latvian Academy of Culture’s Faculty of Performing Arts (formerly the Fine Arts Theater) in 1962. She was an actress in the Liepāja Theater for two years, but from 1964 untill the theater closed in 1992, she worked in the Youth theater, where she played roles in countless crucial productions. These included Nele (Charles de Coster’s “Legend of Tila the Owl’s Mirror”, 1966), Vera Maxima (Gorky’s “The Last”, 1967), Katerina (Ostrovsky’s “The Storm”, 1971), Meita (Alexandra Chaka’s “Playing, Players!”, 1972), Sasha (Anton chekhov’s “Ivanov”, 1975), Peter Pan (“Peter Pan”, 1976), Solveiga (Henrik Ibsen’s “Peer Gynt”, 1979), Ulitha (Aleksandra Ostrovska’s “The Forest”, 1981), Madara (Māras Zālīte’s “Pilna Maras istabiņa”, 1983), Draudzene (“The Ugly Duckling”, 1991), and many others. She is particularly remembered for her role as antiņš Rainis’s “The golden Horse” in the production directed by Adolfs Shapiro (1976).
Theater scholar Guna Zeltiņa, in her book “100 outstanding Latvian actors,” describes Anda Zaice as an artist “with a delicate mental structure and unusual plastic expressiveness of the body. An actress who shone with the success of this theater and faded away when her theater was liquidated.”
Theater scholar Silvija Geikina writes that even while studying in the 3rd acting studio of the Latvian Academy of Culture, Anda surprised teachers and fellow students with her originality and unusually expressive plasticity. Teachers of stage movement, dance, and rhythm praised Anda for her musicality, precision, and lovely movements, noting she was distinct from her peers. Her stage speech and acting skills also received high praise.
In addition to her theater work, Anda Zaice also appeared in several Riga Cinema Studio films, including “Sun Candle”, “Needed Soloist”, “A Short Guide to loving”, “Remember or Forget”, “Seaside Climate”, and “Swamp Wader”.
