LNDT

Director — Marco LAYERA

Creative assistants and choreographers — Carolina de la MAZA and Humberto ESPINOZA

Set designer — Barbora ŠULNIŪTĖ

Costume designer — Marija PETRAITYTĖ

Lighting designer — Dainius URBONIS

Composer — Gailė GRICIŪTĖ

Video projections author – Marco LAYERA in collaboration with "random heroes"

Dramaturgy curator — Rimgailė RENEVYTĖ

Assistant director — Bartė LIAGAITĖ

Translator during rehearsals — Ula LIAGAITĖ

Producer — Lukrecija GUŽAUSKAITĖ

Cast

Vitalija MOCKEVIČIŪTĖ

Augustė Ona ŠIMULYNAITĖ

Jolanta DAPKŪNAITĖ

Algirdas GRADAUSKAS

Dalia MICHELEVIČIŪTĖ

Vainius SODEIKA

Laurynas JURGELIS

Diana ANEVIČIŪTĖ

Play translated from Spanish by Agnė PULOKAITĖ

Marco Layera, a director, actor, acting teacher, and founder of "La Re-sentida" from Chile, will create his first production in Lithuania. His work is presented at the most famous international theatre festivals, including Avignon. At the Teatro Municipal de Las Condes Young Theatre Festival, Marco Layera was awarded the prize for best play; he has also received the Eugenio Guzman award from the University of Chile and was nominated for the Chilean art award Premio Altazor a las Artes Nacionales.

The play, which is based on the work of another Chilean, Juan Pablo Troncoso, and takes inspiration from Tennessee Williams' "A Streetcar Named Desire," follows the main character Blanche (actress Vitalija Mockevičiūtė) as she returns to an unbearably stifling Lithuania after a failed life in one of the major European capitals. She returns from Berlin reluctantly, hiding her artistic failure. Her progressive ideas hit the stagnant, conservative landscape of her hometown like a wall, embodied by her beloved sister (actress Dalia Michelevičiūtė), who recently married a man working in a nursing home (actor Algirdas Gradauskas).

The main character's ambitious desires to become a famous artist have not been fulfilled; she is back in Eastern, not Western, Europe. She is weighed down by time, annoyed by her aging body and a sense of uselessness, while her daughter (actress Augustė Ona Šimulynaitė) is only just creating her own dreams—she wants to be a famous stand-up comedian. The girl makes jokes about her family and mother, mocking the regions located even further east than Lithuania.