The rejoicing fact is that the repertoire of Kaunas State Musical Theatre replenishes with new stagings of operas every year. Still, these two operas in particular, “The Marriage Bill” and “Gianni Schicchi”, provoke a twofold evaluation.
“Craft is not enough for an actor, he/she has to take interest what new happens, what experiments are made, how people go further. The spectator comes to look at a thinking actor, not only masterful. He/she is interested what an actor wants to say about life here and now or in future and not how he/she does it. The tradition of a live actor rather than functional is more significant,” the theatre critic I.Pukelytė states.
“Lost Time” was a time of intensive experience full of dynamically changing views, tonalities, metaphors and energy. Perhaps somebody was encouraged to search for the lost time along with Proust, perhaps someone will dip into thought about the river of time and Eliot’s desserts meditating traces of disappeared nymphs covered in sand. Others will remember the psychedelic grimaces of American Psycho and will meet them with an ironic smile in the mirror.
The joint project of the dance theatre AIROS, group of audiovisual poetry AVaspo and Kaunas Artists’ House, the sketch of the dance performance “Towers of Melancholy” will be presented in the Big Hall of Kaunas National Drama Theatre on November 14. Reflections about the creative process may be found in the interview with the choreographer of the performance Aira Naginevičiūtė and playwright, poetess, performed Gabrielė Labanauskaitė.
The article is dedicated to the newest premiere of Kaunas National Drama Theatre, “The Cherry Orchard” directed by Artūras Areima according to Anton Chekhov. The author states that the performance “At Lower Depths” of Oskaras Koršunovas staged according to Maxim Gorky became a kind of key to understanding this performance. Still, this key did not justify all the inaccuracies, incoherence, obscure interpretations and other kind of faults of the director’s work.
The international dance festival Aura'23 was organised in Kaunas on September 18-22. It was presented as a platform of African contemporary dance to the audience, although works of western troupes were also shown. As emotions faded away slightly after the festival, the dance critic Vita Mozūraitė was asked to review and comment the seen performances. The interlocutors could not distance from thoughts about the Lithuanian dance scene and the only Lithuanian dance theatre in the conversation.
As it has already become usual at the Arts Printing House, the beginning of the new season is closely related with the new circus. The festival New Circus Weekend (like the Arts Printing House itself) promised exceptional experiences for admirers of untraditional stage art, like in previous years. The organisers stated boldly that this circus was not for children. However, the festival made one doubt this categorical statement as well as the novelty of the circus.
In brief: The 19th international puppet theatre festival “The Flying Festival” organised on the 25th-28th of May presented the great variety of themes and actors' mastery: performances of puppeteers from Latvia, Russia, Poland, the Ukraine, France, Czech Republic, Croatia, Slovakia, the Netherlands, Israel, China and Lithuania were shown at Kaunas Puppet, Kaunas State Musical, Kaunas State Drama and Kaunas Chamber Theatres till late night.
We live in an interesting period of time: theatre experiences shrinkage, it is contracting; therefore, it should become deeper and turn into elite art. Otherwise, theatre will turn into a soap opera, series. The logic of real theatre is not the “stars” but things the audience expects from you. You have to see the problem and to be able to show it, to make the audience hear you and persuade to follow you. Losses are inevitable; some performances cannot be shown in halls of a thousand seats. Such a tendency has been noticed in Europe a long time ago; sometimes a performance is shown in a room for a small number of spectators.
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