An exploration of suspension and uncertainty directed by Ilja Moščickij.
Director and author of the adaptation – Ilja Moščickij
Scenographer and costume designer – Natalija Černova
Composer – Dmytro Saratskyj
Assistant director – Tatjana Belanouskaja
Performance manager – Aleksandra Šalkinė
Cast:
Igoris Abramovičius, Artūras Aleksejevas, Nikolaj Antonov, Jelena Bogdanovič, Vladimir Dorondov, Mila Ivanova, Viktoriia Aliukone-Mirošnikova, Alisiia Nestierova, Vera Stasenia, Maksim Tuchvatulin
LIMBO is the first circle of Hell in the "Divine Comedy".
LIMBO is a state after a divorce, after the death of a loved one, after emigration, after a war, after being fired from a job.
LIMBO is a place without suffering, but also without hope. In the first part of the "Divine Comedy", Dante Alighieri placed Homer, Horace, Ovid, Socrates, Plato, and Virgil there.
LIMBO is a popular dance originating from the West Indies, during which dancers must pass under an ever-lowering bar while bending backwards.
LIMBO is a British anti-submarine mortar system.
To be in LIMBO. In English – to be stuck, to be in uncertainty, to wait for a decision, not to understand what will happen next.
The word "LIMBO" is often used in texts about refugees, transit camps, waiting for asylum, and deportations.
"LIMBO" is a programming language for the "Inferno" operating system, created by the developers of UNIX.
"LIMBO" is a video game created by the Danish studio "Playdead".
"LIMBO" is a song by Valerij Meladze from the album "Sera".
Ilja Moščickij is a theatre director and curator who seeks new forms of interaction between the spectator, the performer, and the space in his work. He uses theatre as a place for research and shared experience. Since 2022, he has been living and working in Yerevan. He currently heads the international theatre platform "Chronotope", founded in 2018. He is one of the curators of the international contemporary theatre and performance festival "Chronofest". "Chronotope" implements original theatre projects, and the festival connects independent artists and theatre collectives from various countries.
Notable plays by I. Moščickij: "The Trial of John Demjanjuk. Holocaust Cabaret", "The Book of Disquiet", "Michael Craig-Martin's Oak Tree", "To Forget", etc.
The performance contains profanity.
Photos by Telman Ragimov
Reviews, feedback, interviews
"LIMBO" – a performative experiment at the Vilnius Old Theatre
Gytis Norvilas
Director Ilja Moščickij, staging the play in Vilnius: "Do not trust the rules, trust the person and the relationship with Chaos"
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Stuck in limbo