Keistuoliai

Have you ever wondered how a play is born? Behind closed doors in the furthest corners of the theater, actors repeating text like mantras, the authoritative voice of the director, costumes magically stitching themselves together, and a thoughtful composer creating a soundtrack? Nothing of the sort.

Three actors, one playwright, one table, and three chairs – welcome to the process of creating a play.

Where does art come from? How are creation and death similar? What and how does theater speak about? Critics on art portals, viewers in the theater cloakroom, directors in interviews for cultural shows say: about everything. But we are staging a play about nothing.

Director Linas Jurkštas' play based on his own script "About Nothing" is a comedic, absurd, and hooliganistic caricature of art, turning the spotlight of self-irony onto the creators themselves. Accompanying the actors from the first reading of the script to the premiere day in one evening, the audience simultaneously witnesses both the process of creating the play and a story built with a touch of the Italian commedia dell'arte genre about a young man who tried to defeat Death. The play "About Nothing" is the backstage of creation moved to the stage, a playful provocation, and a nimble balancing act between nonsense and questions about existence.

Director and playwright - Linas Jurkštas

Cast: Danas Kamarauskas, Jurgis Marčėnas, Gabrielius Zapalskis, Birutė Belada Tauterytė/ Viola Klimčiauskaitė.

Set designer - Ramunė Skrebūnaitė

Composer - Gabrielius Zapalskis

Duration of the play - 2 hours 15 minutes (1 intermission)

Premiere - January 25, 2019

N-12