Vanemuine

Raivo Adlas
Drama Actor

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RAIVO ADLAS

In Theatre Vanemuine since 1968

Date and Place of Birth:

January 31, 1940 in Kiisa (Harju County)

Education:

- in 1965 graduated from the Theatre Vanemuine Studio
- in 1990 graduated from the Georgy Tovstonogov directing laboratory in St. Petersburg

Career:

- 1968-1991 Theatre Vanemuine, drama actor and director
- 1990-1993 Tartu Folk Culture Center Sinimandria, theatre manager
- 1993-1995 Pärnu Endla Theatre
- since 1995 Theatre Vanemuine, actor

Current roles in Vanemuine:

- Doctor Kolja – Viktoria Nikiforova "A Play About Money" (2007)
- Benjamin Liiv and doctor Dippe – Loone Ots "Koidula's Blood" (2008)
- servant Joseph – Emily Jane Bronte "Wuthering Heights" (2008)
- Oskar – Ödön von Horvath "Tales From The Vienna Woods" (2009)

Earlier roles in Vanemuine:

- Lysander – William Shakespeare "Midsummer Night’s Dream" (1965)
- Phaethon – Mati Unt "Phaeton, Päikese poeg" / "Phaethon, Son of the Sun" (1968)
- Prince – Paul-Eerik Rummo "Tuhkatriinumäng" / "A Cinderella Play" (1969)
- John Hale – Arthur Miller "The Crucible" (1969)
- Mati Johkem – Osvald Tooming "Külvikuu" / "The Month to Sow" (1972)
- Belski – Oskar Luts, Ardi Liive "Tagahoovis" / "In The Back Yard" (1974)
- Jörgen Tesman – Henrik Ibsen "Hedda Gabler" (1975)
- Fjodor – Leonov "Expedition" (1975)
- Kossecki – Andrzejewski, Jaan Toominga, Heinsalu "Polonaise 1945" (1976)
- Robert – Enn Vetemaa "Jälle häda mõistuse pärast" / "Mind Distress, Again" (1976)
- Peeter Pärn – August Kitzberg "Kauka jumal" / "The God of Money" (1977)
- Paralepp – Anton Hansen Tammsaare, Osvald Tooming "Tõde ja õigus" / "Truth and Justice" (1978)
- Storyteller – Juhan Peegel, Kaarel Ird "Ma langesin esimesel sõjasuvel" / "I Fell on the First Summer of War" (1979)
- Heinz – Kroetz "Upper-Austria" (1980)
- Astrov – Anton Chekhov "Uncle Vanya" (1980)
- Kreutzwald – Vaino Vahing, Madis Kõiv "Faehlmann" (1982)
- Karl Moor – Friedrich Schiller "The Robbers" (1983)
- Andres – Anton Hansen Tammsaare, Ago-Endrik Kerge "Aeg tulla – aeg minna" / "Time to Come – Time to Go" (1986)
- Adolf Joffe – Saar, Kaarel Kilvet "Tartu rahu" / "Tartu Peace" (1990)
- Molotov, Köögertal – Anton Hansen Tammsaare, Mati Unt "Taevane ja maine armastus" / "Heavenly and Earthly Love" (1995)
- John Gabriel – Henrik Ibsen "John Gabriel Borkman" (1996)
- Inquisitor – Anouilh, Mati Unt "The Lark in the Sky" (1997)
- Harald Imeline – Hugo Raudsep "Viimane eurooplane" / "The Last European" (1997)
- Czar Aleksander – Lev Tolstoi "War and Peace"
- Ignacy – Gombrowicz "The Wedding"
- Rimski – Mihhail Bulgakov "Master and Margarita"
- Firss – Anton Chekhov "The Cherry Orchard"
- Rainysos – Mati Unt "Vend Antigone, ema Oidipus" / "Brother Antigone, Mother Oidipus"
- Scanlon – Wasserman "Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest"
- Francis Nurse – Arthur Miller "The Crucible"
- Old Duke – William Shakespeare "As You Like It"
- Police Master Porkki – Maiju Lassila "Borrowing Matches"
- Alirio Noguera – Toomas Hussar, Gabriel Garcia Marquez "One Hundred Years..." (2006)
- Caretaker Küür – Tom Stoppard "Jumper" (2007)
- Osvald Vogler – Ingmar Bergman "In the Presence of a Clown" (2007)

Earlier roles elsewhere:

- Thorvald Helmer – Henrik Ibsen "Nora" (in Theatre Ugala in 1985)

Earlier productions in Vanemuine:

- Švarts "Little Red Riding-hood" (1982)
- Zlotnikov "A Man Came to a Woman" (1983)
- Oskar Luts, Raivo Adlas "Suvi" / "Summer" (1984)
- Hendrik Lindepuu "Tol kevadel Tartus" / "That Spring in Tartu" (1986)
- Vladimir Majakovski "Mystery-Bluff" (1987)
- Hendrik Lindepuu "Kes teda hoida saab" (1988)
- Ilmar Külvet "Menning" (1990)
- Anton Hansen Tammsaare, Raivo Adlas "Armastuse võimalikkusest Vargamäel" / "About the Possibility of Love in Vargamäe" (1993)
- Raivo Adlas "Usutluste tund Rüütli tänavas" / "Interview Hour in Rüütli Street" (1994)
- Anouilh "Orchestra" (1995)
- Madis Kõiv "Tali" / Winter (1996)

Earlier productions elsewhere:

- Ajtmatov "The Day Lasts More Than A Hundred Years" (in Olomouc Theatre in 1987)
- Tremblay "Forever Yours, Marilou" (In Studio Theatre Minerva in 1989 and in Pärnu Endla Theatre in 1992)
- Mrožek "The Party" (in Folk Culture Center Sinimandria in 1991)
- Hauptmann "The Rats" (in Pärnu Endla Theatre in 1993)

Movies, tv-productions, radio dramas:

- played in the movie "Lindpriid" / "Outlaws" (1971)
- played in the tv-production "Koerad" / "Dogs" (1968)
- played in the radio drama "Võitlus" / "Combat" (1978)

Recognition:

- 1976 ERRS honoured artist