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

The October 2nd performance of CONSIDER THE LOBSTER will have English surtitles. Surtitles 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 rarely directed in Lithuania recently and finishing her tenure as one of the eight co-directors of the Schauspielhaus Zürich, Yana Ross invites 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 modern 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 simultaneously 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 this production," says Yana Ross.

"I confess that I have never understood why, for such a large number of people, a fun vacation involves flip-flops and sunglasses, while having to push through crazy traffic jams to reach noisy, hot, overcrowded tourist spots just 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 they cannot have, and disappointed by what they cannot admit to themselves," writes D. F. Wallace.