Based on the essay by David Foster Wallace. CONSIDER THE LOBSTER, dir. Yana ROSS

The November 22 performance of CONSIDER THE LOBSTER will be subtitled in English. Subtitles are best viewed from rows 6-10.

Director — Yana ROSS

Set Designer — Zane PIHLSTROM

Composer — punk after kant

Lighting Designer — Dainius URBONIS

Creative Assistant to the Director — Naubertas JASINSKAS

Assistant Costume Designer — Pijus DULSKIS

Essay Translator — Ignas BEITSAS

Assistant Director — Rokas LAŽAUNYKAS

Producer — Kamilė ŽIČKYTĖ

CAST

Elzė GUDAVIČIŪTĖ

Miglė POLIKEVIČIŪTĖ

Martynas NEDZINSKAS

Salvijus TREPULIS

Jūratė VILŪNAITĖ

Having recently directed few productions in Lithuania and finishing her tenure as one of the eight co-directors of the Schauspielhaus Zürich, Yana Ross will invite audiences to a premiere at the LNDT Small Hall in September.

For her new production, Yana Ross has chosen the essay "Consider the Lobster" by American writer David Foster Wallace (1962–2008), who fundamentally questions human nature. In his texts, D. F. Wallace dissects the most sensitive and uncomfortable questions of contemporary society – empathy, child-rearing, intimacy, miscommunication, and the end of anthropocentrism.

"We hope to encourage the audience to rethink their ethical and moral codes and values, while also drawing attention to socially acceptable gray areas that we intend to question. Susan Sontag's important book 'Regarding the Pain of Others' was also very useful in creating the play," says Yana Ross.

"I confess that I have never understood why, for such a large number of people, a fun vacation is associated with flip-flops and sunglasses, wearing which one must push through crazy traffic jams to noisy, hot, overcrowded tourist spots in order to taste 'local delicacies,' even though the very appearance of tourists essentially ruins the whole concept. For me, being a mass tourist means becoming the purest modern American – an uneducated foreigner, greedily craving what one cannot have, and disappointed by what one cannot admit to oneself," writes D. F. Wallace.