Theatre director and performer Mudīte Gaiševska was an active participant in the processes of Soviet Latvia’s informal cultural sphere during the 1960s and 1970s. In 1964, Gaiševska started studying directing for amateur theatre at Moscow State Institute of Culture but was expelled due to ideological differences. She went on to study at the Leningrad State Institute of Culture. Gaiševska’s diploma work, Henrik Ibsen’s »A Doll’s House«, was produced with the People’s Theatre at the House of Culture in Smiltene, Latvia. She would later emphasise this as the central part of her creative biography. At the turn of 1971 and 1972, she teamed up with like-minded artists to set up an experimental theatre group titled Office Group. On Gaiševska’s initiative, the group decided to do a series of films titled »Pašportreti« (»Self-portraits«). At the same time, she partook in happenings staged by Andris Grīnbergs, in which her ideas were employed as well. Gaiševska also wrote about cinema and theatre.
