OKT

Please be advised that the actors smoke during the performance.

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

Cast:

Groom - Karolis Vilkas, Džiugas Grinys Bride - Žygimantė Elena Jakštaitė Man - Kęstutis Cicėnas, Oskar Wyganowski Woman - Viktorija Žukauskaitė, Augustė Pociūtė Bride's sister - Greta Petrovskytė, Taura Kvietinskaitė Groom's friend - Lukas Malinauskas Young man - Oskar Wyganowski, Martynas Mockevičius 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 takes place during the wedding feast. "Bertolt Brecht's 'The Wedding' (this is the true 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 Lithuanian specificity 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 'townie,' and, of course, a complete lack of understanding of the globalization processes influencing them one way or another. Of course, first and foremost, it is a good comedy, turned like a mirror towards 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. Any laughter is good if it does not arise from anger. The performance is extremely open, with a lot of improvisation. The latest social and political current 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 come again and again." Director Oskaras Koršunovas

Premiere – September 8, 9, 2016.

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