All of these performances is in Lithuanian and have English surtitles.
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THE FRAGMENT
Premiere 21 March 2023
Idea, composition, production Dmitry Krymov
“Our play is called ‘The Fragment’ (Lith. “Fragmentas”). This fragment is from A. Chekhov’s play ‘Three Sisters’ – beginning of the third act – the night fire. In the center, as if under a magnifying glass, Olga, the eldest of the three sisters. In this dramatic piece of work: axon, fear, foreboding and struggle. The struggle is hopeless and perhaps not very successful – like all attempts by A. Chekhov’s heroes, including Olga – to defeat fate, which does not allow them to save the cherry orchard, become a writer or go to Moscow. They are doomed to fail. All that remains are the attraction to each other, suffering and loneliness. A. Chekhov is generally not concerned with the result but with the attempt itself, and that is what makes his characters so close and dear to us”.
Not to miss: Samanta Pinaitytė, the actress playing Olga, was awarded the Golden Cross in the beginning artist category in 2024.
CALL ME CALENDAR
*This performance has English and Latvian surtitles.
Premiere 14 February 2025
Director and author of the dramatisation Elmārs Seņkovs
Based on Andris Kalnozols’ novel “Call Me Calendar”
Until now, Oskaras has lived a secluded life with his mother, Klara, in a small Latvian town. Known for his ability to memorise all the name days and their dates, Oskaras has earned the nickname “The Calendar” among the locals. Once a week, he visits the local pastor, Arvydas, for a chat. Gradually, his daily routine begins to change when the pastor suggests that Oskaras chooses the most important word of the week and writes about it each day.
The performance is based on the acclaimed novel “Call Me Calendar” (Lith “Mane vadina Kalendorium”) by writer, actor, and director Andris Kalnozols. The novel won the 2021 Annual Latvian Literature Award in the “Brightest Debut” category. It stands as one of the most original and striking literary works in recent Latvian literature, resonating widely with readers of all backgrounds.
BETWEEN LENA’S LEGS, OR „THE DEATH OF THE VIRGIN” AFTER MICHELANGELO da CARAVAGGIO
Premiere 6 August 2021
Playwright, director, scenographer and costume designer Agata Duda-Gracz
The play (Lith. „Tarp Lenos kojų, arba „Švenčiausiosios Mergelės Marijos mirtis“ pagal Mikelandželą Karavadžą“) refers to the biography and creations of the Baroque period Italian painter Caravaggio. It discusses the relationship between sin and holiness which, contrary to how it may seem, is by no means unambiguous. Caravaggio’s paintings on religious topics are acclaimed as being genius, they evoke faith. Although Caravaggio himself, having earned fame among his peers not only for his paintings but shocking violence as well, was wasting his life, not neglecting to commit every conceivable sin. He was into shadows more than into light – in both his paintings and his life. A big sinner and a saint at the same time, to whom painting was the only true existence – his soul shelter. Is such untraditional asceticism possible? Open brutality and divine beauty – how do they coexist? What secret connections bind the utmost evil and the supreme good?
Not to miss: The performance was awarded the Golden Cross for lighting design in 2022.
THE NOTEBOOK
Premiere 10 February 2023
Director Jokūbas Brazys
Staging of Agot Kristof’s novel “The Notebook” (Lith.”Storas sąsiuvinis”)
The twins Luke and Klaus’s regular life with their mother in a big city is interrupted by the outbreak of war. From the city, the mother brings the boys to a safer place – their grandmother’s house in the country’s province. But it is not safe here either. To control the chaos around them, the twins create ruthless rules for themselves: take daily exercises to strengthen the body and soul, get used not feeling pain, hide sympathy, forget love, do not respond to kind words or curses, develop insensitivity. Luke and Klaus are very talented children. Therefore, their practice soon begins to bear fruit – they both change and become fully prepared for a new brutal life. Now they are half monsters from hell, half-angels, carrying out God’s justice.
Not to miss: The performance was awarded the Golden Cross for lighting design in 2024.
THE RETURN
Premiere 27 September 2024
Director Naubertas Jasinskas
“The Return” (Lith. “Sugrįžimas”) is a modern Gothic tale about Michael and Claire, a young couple going through a divorce. Claire works in television and strives to build her career in Paris, while Michael struggles to balance his job in Marseille with his wife’s ambitions in the capital. Their relationship ultimately unravels when Michael embarks on an affair with Cécile Lambal, a young woman barely past adulthood. One night, at a party, Michael dies unexpectedly. As a ghost, he follows his own body on a journey through the labyrinths of chance and the surreal bureaucracy of death, until he is led back to his former wife. This work, is what the French literary tradition describes as bizzarerie: a strangeness that disrupts the self-evident reality of everyday life. The performance draws on the Gothic motif of an inverted world, echoing the idea that on Judgment Day, the wronged will take revenge on their oppressors.
The visually striking performance draws inspiration from the short story of the same name by Chilean writer Roberto Bolaño.
Not to miss: This performance’s costume design won the Golden Cross award in 2025.
WEST PIER
Premiere 8 September 2023
Director Adomas Juška
Author of the play Bernard-Marie Koltès
A wealthy businessman arrives in the heart of the harbour district with a clear goal – to end his life. But a stranger pulls him out of the water, and now the locals in the area are demanding the return of everything that life has not given them.
It is the story of people who should never have met, but they did – in an imaginary no-manʼs land, existing on the fringes of society, on the edge of every city in the world.
“The entire performance carries a distinct sense of Klaipėda. “West Pier” (Lith. “Vakarų krantinė”) captures a feeling that perfectly suits this city. It might resemble an abandoned dock in Klaipėda, with people of worn and blurred identities sheltering in its shadow <…>.”
-Vytautas Lukaševičius, „15min„
Not to miss: In 2024, the performance received Golden Cross awards in three categories: set design, lighting design, and best directorial work.
OUR CLASS
Premiere 5 December 2019
Playwright Tadeusz Słobodzianek
Director Oskaras Koršunovas
In 1941, a small village of Jedwabne in Poland witnessed a mind-boggling occurrence – local Jewish people were shut into a barn and burnt to death. Their murderers were not monsters from hell; these were ordinary people – Jews’ neighbours and former classmates The ones that played together or played tricks, the ones that dreamt together of what they would become one day when they grow up. The action of the play involves a long period of time – from 1925 up to the present day. T. Słobodzianek has masterfully managed to put 80 years into a rather short play and to show the entire 20th century through the lives of pupils of one class.
Not to miss:
„Our Class” (Lith. “Mūsų klasė”) is one of the most frequently staged modern plays, having won numerous awards for its poignancy.
O. Koršunovas is one of the most prominent theater figures in Lithuania and staged this play in Norway.
SONS OF A BITCH
Premiere 2018 02 03
Author Saulius Šaltenis
Director Eimuntas Nekrošius
The novel “Sons of a Bitch” (Lith. “Kalės vaikai”) by S. Šaltenis brings back the Minor Lithuania of the XVIII century, the south-western ethnographic part of Lithuania which was governed by Prussia at the time. Many layers intertwine in the novel: the historical past of Lithuania – the German colonization, wars with the Russians, the forceful Polish influence, fairy-tales, stories, prejudice, magic, incantations and witchcraft, echoes of the older myths of matriarchal societies, fragments and postulates of the Holy Scripture. The narrative facture is thick, the time and space are more mythical than specific. It relates to the essence of the Lithuanian nation, and the archaic and existential beginnings.
Not to miss: This is the last work directed in Lithuania by the legendary theater director Eimuntas Nekrošius, who is widely known in Europe and beyond.
MILENA
Premiere 12 September 2025
Director and Playwright Laura Kutkaitė
When Milena Jesenská offered to translate Kafka’s “Amerika: The Missing Person”, their correspondence quickly evolved into something entirely different. The letters not only reflect the stages of their relationship; they are the relationship. Although nearly all the letters* were written between April and November 1920, they met in person only twice. What does a relationship driven almost entirely by imagination mean?
The performance “Milena” does not aim to reconstruct Milena and Kafka’s relationship, nor to present a documentary portrait of Milena; it seeks to rethink that connection through a kind of theatrical ‘editing’ of fragments. On stage are six actresses, each simultaneously Milena, Kafka, and herself, attempting to speak to Milena, while also acting as editors, arranging the chronology of the performance’s letter.
*Only Kafka’s letters to Milena have survived; Jesenská’s letters to Kafka were destroyed.
REQUIEM
Premiere 11 May 2024
Director Dmitry Krymov
Director Dmitry Krymov masterfully strings together narrative ‘beads’ from different cultures and eras, which at first glance seem unrelated. How, then, can Haruki Murakami, William Shakespeare, and Russia’s brutal war against Ukraine be connected? According to the director, the specific stories behind each narrative ‘bead’ in “Requiem” matter less than the overall resonance and emotional coherence of the performance.
Krymov himself, renowned for his extraordinary stage masterpieces that challenge the very laws of reality, dedicates “Requiem” to children, born and unborn, to all those entering this strange, cruel, sometimes incomprehensible or even hostile world. This dedication stands in contrast to the traditional meaning of a requiem, which is a Mass for the dead, a farewell to departing souls. But the director asks: Is today’s world not shattered into fragments? Are the living not stunned and lost, unsure of what to do? All hope for the future lies in the innocence of childhood; the great question is how to preserve it.
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