OKT

Please be advised that the actors smoke during the performance.

Based on Bertolt Brecht's play "The Wedding" THE WEDDING Director – Oskaras Koršunovas

Cast: Groom - Karolis Vilkas, Džiugas Grinys Bride - Žygimantė Jakštaitė Husband - Kęstutis Cicėnas Wife - Viktorija Žukauskaitė, Augustė Pociūtė Bride's sister - Greta Petrovskytė, Taura Kvietinskaitė Groom's friend - Lukas Malinauskas Young man - Oskar Wyganowski Father - Artiom Rybakov Mother - Kamilė Petruškevičiūtė

Bertolt Brecht's play is a short, grotesque story in which absolutely everything is overloaded, broken, and ruined: the furniture, the people, and their relationships. And the culmination of all this happens during the wedding feast. "Bertolt Brecht's 'The Wedding' (this is the original title of the play) speaks about the moral hypocrisy of society. Essentially, everything revolves around the revealed pre-marital loss of the bride's virginity. In the play, we speak more broadly. Not only about hypocritical morality and virginity, but also about the decay of customs, the absurd deformation of what were once the most sacred things in human existence: weddings, funerals, the sense of the cosmogonic cycle, and celebration traditions. Of course, a very specific Lithuanian context is also revealed. It is the confusion of a rural person coming to live in the city, even an inability to become a so-called bourgeois, and, of course, a complete lack of understanding of the globalization processes influencing them in one way or another. Of course, first and foremost, it is a good comedy, held up like a mirror to us or our loved ones. Here we can certainly laugh, if not at ourselves, then at least at our neighbor, and this tradition is immortal among us. But any laughter is good if it does not stem from anger. The performance is extremely open, with a lot of improvisation. The latest social and political events are constantly incorporated into it, so it is always changing. The performance is open to the audience. Thus, it never repeats itself and is different every time. So if you like this Dionysian celebration with Lithuanian potato salad, you can feel free to go again and again." Director Oskaras Koršunovas

Premiere – September 8, 9, 2016

Performance producers – OKT/Vilnius City Theatre, Lithuanian Academy of Music and Theatre