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Premiered in Vilnius – November 29th 2012
Premiere – February 28th 2013
a modern view to a monumental Lithuanian drama
Laszlo Bagossy to direct at LNDT
Ferenc Molnar‘s „LILIOM“:
Justinas Marcinkevičius’ “CATHEDRAL”:
Director Oskaras KORŠUNOVASS
et designer Vytautas NARBUTAS
Composer Antanas JASENKA
Costume designer Sandra STRAUKAITĖ
Light designer Eugenijus SABALIAUSKAS
Video projections by Rimas SAKALAUSKAS
Choreographer Vesta GRABŠTAITĖ
Cast: Marius Repšys, Dainius Gavenonis, Vytautas Anužis, Toma Vaškevičiūtė, Monika Vaičiulytė, DariusMeškauskas,
Nelė Savičenko, Vytautas Rumšas, Vitalija Mockevičiūtė, Martynas Nedzinskas, Arūnas Sakalauskas, Ainis Storpirštis,
Tomas Rinkūnas, Paulius Ignatavičius, Remigijus Bučius, Dovydas Stončius, Saulius Bareikis, Šarūnas Puidokas, Marius
Čižauskas, Rimantas Bagdzevičius, Ramutis Rimeikis, Arūnas Smailys, Neringa Bulotaitė, Ramunė Skardžiūnaitė, Diana
Anevičiūtė, Saulius Balandis, Eimutis Braziulis, Monika Bičiūnaitė, Adrija Čepaitė, Jolanta Dapkūnaitė, Regina Garuolytė,
Vesta Grabštaitė, Jūratė Vilūnaitė, Arūnas Vozbutas, Edmundas Mikulskis, Laurynas Apšega, Adomas Gavenonis.
The prime performance of the 2012-2013 season of Lithuanian National Drama Theatre “Cathedral”, directed
by the leading Lithuanian director Oskaras Koršunovas, is a ground-breaking interpretation of the most
important classical piece of Lithuanian national dramaturgy. “Cathedral” united the greatest talents of
Lithuanian theatre to make a contemporary revival of the legendary Lithuanian drama about the visionary
artist and builder of the most famous national cultural and religious monument – the Cathedral. What is the
responsibility of the artist of a small nation? Is creativity divine or of a demonic kind? Who is the owner of a
talent – the artist or the one who pays for it? These are the questions raised in Oskaras’ Koršunovas
interpretation of “Cathedral”, a strikingly visual and monumental performance that brings national
dramaturgy to a world-class level.
Director
László BAGOSSY (Hungary)
Set designer Gintaras MAKAREVIČIUS
Costume designer Dovilė GUDAČIAUSKAITĖ
Composer Gintaras SODEIKA
Cast: Dainius Gavenonis, Saulius Balandis,
Arvydas Dapšys, Algirdas Gradauskas, Vaiva
Mainelytė, Miglė Polikevičiūtė, Marius Repšys,
Nelė Savičenko, Adelė Teresiūtė,
Toma Vaškevičiūtė.
Premiere in Vilnius – March 22nd 2013
Martin Sperr’s “HUNTING SCENES”:
Dante‘s „HEAVEN“:
a mirror of modern society
Nekrošius‘ newest piece to be performed at LNDT
Director Rolandas ATKOČIŪNAS
Set designer Marius NEKROŠIUS
Costume designer Nadežda GIULTIAJEVA
Cast: Rolandas Kazlas, Ieva Triškauskaitė,
Audronis Rūkas, Marija Petravičiūtė, Beata Tiškevič,
Julija Šatkauskaitė, Pijus Ganusauskas,
Darius Petrovskis, Simonas Dovidauskas,
Vygantas Vadeiša.
In the spring of 2012 Eimuntas Nekrošius directed the first two parts of Dante’s “Divine Comedy” – “Inferno”
and “Purgatory”. Later in the autumn he opened “Heaven” at the authentic historical stage of Teatro
Olimpico in Vicenza, Italy. In February “Heaven” was transferred to the main stage of the Lithuanian National
Drama Theatre.
Set designer Mārtiņš VILKĀRSIS (Latvia)
Costume designer Jolanta RIMKUTĖ
Composer Vidmantas BARTULIS
Euripides „BACCHAE“ :
classical piece by Euripides to be directed
in Lithuania for the first time
Gintaras VARNAS
Set designer Gintaras MAKAREVIČIUS
Costume designer Juozas STATKEVIČIUS
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Martin Sperr was born in 1944 in Steinberg, Lower Bavaria. He didn't finish his studies as an industrial
merchant and became a student in the Max-Reinhardt Seminar. However, he did not complete these
studies either. In 1965 he went to work for the Bremen Kammerspiele. In 1966, he staged his folk play
“Hunting Scenes from Lower Bavaria” at the theatre and immediately became one of the most successful
young German playwrights. He wrote the play when he was only 18, and it was full of his own life
experiences.
The play is written in a Bayern dialect. In it playwright turns against the bigotries and hypocrisies of a village
life. Sperr set his drama in the Bavarian village of Reinod in 1948. His subject is the virulent sickness of Nazi
Germany - a sickness that, in the playwright's view, did not even begin to wither with the demise of Hitler’s
regime. As the villagers try to survive the social dislocations and economic deprivations of the post-war
period, they sink into an amoral state, which knows no boundaries and lead to the complete disintegration
of moral codes. Parents and children, husbands and wives, friends and neighbors all turn against each
other. Sex is cruel and murder is casual; greed and vigilantism is the daily bread for the characters. The
people of the village drive a mentally retarded young man to the point of suicide and a homosexual to the
point of murder.
Critical reception back in Italy praised Nekrošius‘ “Heaven” as “flaming with its poetical beauty”,
“exceptionaly humane and divinely thrilling at the same time” and “reaching far beyond the definition of
pantomime and dance and becoming the true dance theatre”.
Premiere in Vilnius – April 24th 2013
Director
Ferenc Molnár wrote “Liliom” in 1909 and throughout the XX century, the play had numerous interpretations
in theatre as well as in cinema. Rodgers’ and Hammerstein’s legendary musical “Carousel” and a few
Hollywood film productions have been made from the play. Fritz Lang directed his version of “Liliom” in
1934. The play was interpreted by internationally acknowledged theatre directors such as Gábor
Zsámbéki, Arpad Schilling, Michael Thalheimer and others.
László Bagossy‘s “Liliom” is at its very stage of creative birth now. The director is working with a
well-known Lithuanian artist, leading Lithuanian set designer Gintaras Makarevičius, as well as with a
composer Gintaras Sodeika to create an unearthly yet timely nostalgic world of “Liliom”.
Premiere in Vilnius – February 12th 2013
Director Eimuntas NEKROŠIUS
László Bagossy is known for his works in some prominent Hungarian theatres (Katona, Orkeny) as well as in
Theater Tri-buhne (Stuttgart). In recent years, his performances were nominated as the best theatrical works
in Hungary. For the first time Bagossy directs a world famous classical play by his fellow-countryman,
playwright Ferenc Molnár.
Peter Fleischmann made a film version of the play in 1968, making Sperr famous on international level.
Premiered in Vilnius – May 19th 2012
Euripides (c. 480 – 406 BC) was one of the three great tragedians of classical Athens who enriched form of
drama with a mesmerizing simplicity. Contrarily to his coevals Aeschylus and Sophocles, Euripides always
tried to make the plots of widely known myths more realistic, to actualize the tragedy to the times he
himself lived through and to reveal passions and emotions of the characters. Only 17 of overall 90 tragedies
created by Euripides survived to this day.
“The Bacchae” (c. 405 BC) is a philosophical drama. Can mortals apprehend Gods with their sharp minds or
only with a mystical foreboding? Whether Gods are allowed to reveal their wrath and vengeance on
humans or should they be kind and forgiving? Euripides based his tragedy on a Greek myth of Cult of
Dionysus, spreading at the time in the ancient city of Thebes. King Pentheus refuses to worship Dionysus
and wants to fathom the creed rationally. In gloomy words of Dionysus Euripides states that there is no
rational explanation to belief. Bacchae are identified as creatures of nature, an inseparable part of it. The
choir of bacchae embodies the idea of blessing given by a naïve belief.
Director Gintaras Varnas notes that Euripides was posthumously accused of disrupting the great golden
age of the Greeks with his heretical “The Bacchae”. “Isn’t it the greatest compliment to theatre and the play
itself? “The Bacchae” is a tragedy of the end of decadence and of a civilization that evolves just like a
comedy. It’s the true modernism of the antiquity”, G. Varnas states.
Playwright
For inquires and further information about the showcase programme and logistics,
please contact: Irina Duškova | Cultural Projects and International Relations Manager
Cell: +370 8 636 62 00 6 | Fax: +370 5 262 00 51 | E-mail: [email protected]
During the Show Case you can stay at the hotel "Artis" in Vilnius for a special price: single room for 45€ (150 Lt), double room
for 53€ (180 Lt). For more information about the hotel, please visit http://www.artis.centrumhotels.com/.
“RED SHOELACES”:
contemporary Lithuanian drama with a sharp edge
Gabrielė LABANAUSKAITĖ
Director Yana ROSS
Set designer Eglė EIGIRDAITĖ
Light designer Vilius VILUTIS
Cast: Dainius Jankauskas, Julius Paškevičius,
Adelė Teresiūtė, Marius Čižauskas,
Martynas Vaidotas, Raminta Verseckaitė,
Oneida Kunsunga
In 2012 a young Lithuanian poet, playwright and musician Gabrielė Labanauskaitė won a national
dramaturgy competition held by Lithuanian National Drama theatre with her play “Red Shoelaces” which
explores some urgent and controversial topics of contemporary Lithuanian society.
“Red Shoelaces” is about peoples’ fear of being themselves in a society which ignores “otherness”. The
play is based on a confrontation between two brothers – Juozas, a devoted nationalist-skinhead and
Jonas, a homosexual computer geek. The title of the play invokes a particular ritual of the skin-head
philosophy – a right to wear red shoelaces when one sheds blood for the first time. Will the biblical story
of Cain and Abel be reenacted on-stage?