Comedy I Awaken your inner goddess

Direction: Gildas ALEKSA Play: Kristina Marija KULINIČ Scenography and costumes: Kotryna K. RUPAINYTĖ Music: Jokūbas TULABA Lighting design: Tomas ZINKUS Cast: Roberta SIRGEDAITĖ, Milda NAUDŽIŪNAITĖ, Gytis IVANAUSKAS, Adomas JASIUKĖNAS The play is funded by: Lithuanian Council for Culture and Kaunas City Municipality Partner of the play: Arts Printing House One-act comedy "Problems! Problems, problems, problems... there is no life without problems, there is no work without problems... one could say that our job in this life is problem solving, solving problems..." /Excerpt from Kristina Marija Kulinič's play "Inflated Goddesses"/ Quick spirituality practices today are used not only for personal recreational purposes, but also as team-building tools for employees of larger or smaller companies. Burnt out after attempts at self-realization and having placed themselves within unrealistic frameworks of a healthy lifestyle (eight hours for sleep, eight for oneself, eight for work), employees of a small party balloon company go on a teambuilding trip to a spiritual development camp. There is no time for the spirit, just as there is no time for personal life, so coworkers become our family, and spiritual camps become religion and therapy. Two birds are killed with one stone: you get closer to your colleagues and cleanse your soul! The play presents four people who are not in their place in life. Like the tightrope walker mentioned by Friedrich Nietzsche*, they have to walk towards the superhuman in the context of questionable spiritual development exercises. *"Man is a rope stretched between the animal and the Overman—a rope over an abyss. <...> What is great in man is that he is a bridge and not an end: what can be loved in man is that he is an overture and a going under." /Excerpt from Friedrich Nietzsche's book "Thus Spoke Zarathustra", translated from German by Alfonsas Tekorius/ About the author: Kristina Marija Kulinič is a playwright, actress, and director of the younger generation, whose plays have been staged in Lithuania (dir. Gildas Aleksa, Artūras Areima, Ieva Jackevičiūtė) and at the Latvian National Theatre (dir. Artūras Areima). About the director: Gildas Aleksa is a director of the younger generation, whose biography includes about 20 plays, many of which ("The Nature of Wind", "Candide or the Death of Optimism", "The Sweater", etc.) have been shown at the Kaunas City Chamber Theatre. The director has been awarded the "Fortūna" statuette three times and has won the "Lithuanian Theatre Spring" award and the Most Memorable Kaunas Artist award. Interview with the director Attention: the play is marked with an N-16 age restriction, as it contains profanity.