VMT play

Reflections on love in one act

VMT, in collaboration with VšĮ "Darbininkai", invites you to the play "Faithless" by director and audiovisual experience creator Naubertas Jasinskas. It is a visual poetic narrative based on the screenplay by the famous Swedish modern filmmaker and theatre director Ingmar Bergman.

Director – Naubertas Jasinskas

Playwright – INGMAR BERGMAN

In 2024, actress Alvydė Pikturnaitė was nominated for the "Golden Stage Cross" in the Best Actress category for her role as Marianne.

Adaptation authors – Naubertas Jasinskas, Alvydė Pikturnaitė

Composer – Gintaras Sodeika

Set designer – Sigita Šimkūnaitė

Costume designer – Sandra Straukaitė

Choreographer – Ieva Navickaitė

Lighting designer – Dainius Urbonis

Video artist – Ričard Žigis

Translated from Swedish by – Zita Mažeikaitė

Producers – VšĮ "Darbininkai" and VVMT

Cast:

BIBI ANDERSSON / MARIANNE – Alvydė Pikturnaitė

INGMAR BERGMAN / DAVID – Lukas Malinauskas

DICK CAVETT / MARTIN – Tomas Stirna

DEATH – Daumantas Ciunis

In "Faithless", I. Bergman is concerned with the world of the artist, the conflicts tearing at his soul, passions, creative pursuits, and failures. While writing the screenplay, he drew upon his long and rich personal experience. In the work, an aging writer is visited by Marianne, a character created by his imagination but appearing highly realistic; she tells the dramatic story of herself and, simultaneously, of the writer himself. Marianne is an actress, her husband is a famous conductor, and they have a young daughter, Isabelle; they are a beautiful, harmonious family. However, the woman falls in love with a family friend – a theatre and film director who is not particularly successful. This irresponsible step turns into a horrific family tragedy.

The play is primarily about the perspective of love and infidelity: how and why does a so-called duality arise in a person, an inability to express one's needs? Why do we deny our desire, even though it is irrepressible? What happens when we do not talk, ignore, and keep the truth silent? At the end of his life, I. Bergman rethinks the perspective of dysfunctional or compromise-based relationships. In the play, the story is told not from the perspective of I. Bergman's alter ego, but from the perspective of the woman – the faithless one.