Naubertas Jasinskas. THE DEVIL'S BRIDE, dir. Naubertas Jasinskas

Playwright and director Naubertas Jasinskas says: "We are creating a completely new interpretation of 'The Devil's Bride' – this will not be a new staging of Boruta's work or a dramatization of the film with young actors. This play raises the question: is reconstruction an act of love for the past, or an inability to create and exist in the present? The work is relevant today because we live in a culture obsessed with reconstructions, thus fostering a dangerous relationship with memory. The desire to restore, recreate, and return becomes a safe zone where one can avoid real questions about the present."

Inspired by various sources, the play "The Devil's Bride" consists of two parts. In the first part, the viewer is immersed in the memory of the legendary film "The Devil's Bride" – here it becomes not only a stage act of reconstruction but also the internal memory, longing, and dream of an aging actress. From the point of the past, from a romanticized story about love and eternity, we move to the second part – the present. Here, the meeting of the same characters – a man and a woman – is shown today: their connection has broken, love has ended, and promises have faded. We see not the fulfillment promised by the cultural myth, but a collapse. It is precisely this break that allows for the deconstruction of the myth – that love solves everything. The second part of the play shows that the long-awaited "they lived happily ever after" never arrived. This is a contemporary reflection on the power of time, the discrepancy between memory and reality, and the painful necessity of looking at a myth without romanticized longing.

The play is a co-production of LNDT and MMLAB theaters.