SUMMARY
"In this article, I will quote several letters of Ma¯ra K¸imele to Anna La¯cis ... and attempt to reveal the signs of the era embedded in them, proof of Anna La¯cis’s and Ma¯ra K¸imele’s professional quests, and to relate them to the tradition of political theatre in contemporary Latvia. It can be said without a doubt that Asja was one of the brightest and most expressive pioneers of political theatre in Latvia in the 1920s, and contemporary Latvian artists can metaphorically call her a grandmother. The title of this article thus relates not only to the direct correspondence between Ma¯ra K¸imele and Anna La¯cis, but also the willingness to commence a dialogue on the state of political art in Soviet and contemporary independent Latvia."