William Shakespeare. THE WONDERFUL AND SAD STORY OF ROMEO AND JULIET, dir. O. Koršunovas

On October 18, the performance THE WONDERFUL AND SAD STORY OF ROMEO AND JULIET will be subtitled in English. Subtitles are best viewed from row 17.

◊ 2003 Golden Stage Cross. Best Director – Oskaras Koršunovas

◊ 2003 Golden Stage Cross. Best Scenographer – Jūratė Paulėkaitė

Director — Oskaras KORŠUNOVAS

Scenographer — Jūratė PAULĖKAITĖ

Composer — Antanas JASENKA

Costume Designer — Jolanta RIMKUTĖ

Lighting Designer — Eugenijus SABALIAUSKAS

Choreographer — Vesta Rasa GRABŠTAITĖ

Assistant Director — Augustas GORNATKEVIČIUS

CAST:

Juliet Capulet – Digna KULIONYTĖ, Agnieszka RAVDO

Romeo Montague – Laurynas JURGELIS

Mercutio – Marius Michailas REPŠYS

Tybalt – Kęstutis CICĖNAS, Saulius AMBROZAITIS

Benvolio – Eimantas PAKALKA

Juliet's Nurse – Eglė MIKULIONYTĖ

Friar Laurence – Arvydas DAPŠYS

Paris, a kinsman of the Prince – Gediminas RIMEIKA

Capulet – Dalia MICHELEVIČIŪTĖ

Capulet – Vaidotas MARTINAITIS

Montague – Vesta GRABŠTAITĖ

Montague – Remigijus BILINSKAS

Prince Escalus; Apothecary – Arūnas SAKALAUSKAS

Peter, a servant – Aurelijus POCIUS

Townspeople: Gailė BUTVILAITĖ, Gerda ČIURAITĖ, Taura KVIETINSKAITĖ, Lukas MALINAUSKAS, Kamilė PETRUŠKEVIČIŪTĖ, Augustė POCIŪTĖ, Oskar WYGANOWSKI, Arūnas VOZBUTAS

Premiere – June 13, 2003.

Premiere of the revived performance at the Lithuanian National Drama Theatre – February 6, 2015.

Director Oskaras Koršunovas:

Shakespeare’s play “Romeo and Juliet” is most often imagined as an ode to romantic love. In reality, it is a social drama in which simple love takes on the highest resonance of tragedy under dramatic circumstances. In this tragedy, what interests me most is that love is born and unfolds in hatred, in the atmosphere of war in Verona. I wanted to emphasize this paradox: hatred kills, but it is precisely what ignites the spark of love.