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There is no better time to be happy than now, so the Alytus City Theater invites you in April:
April 2 6 p.m. “Marriage” (Dir. Stas Zhyrkov) based on the motives of NV Gogol’s play N-16 / raised
Tickets: from €12
Tickets here: https://kakava.lt/renginys/vedybos/6709/13495
Try to understand and interpret what people think about being together in our digital, changing and war-torn times. Why do they need each other? What motivates us to look for a friend and what causes us to break up?
Each of us at different times in our lives has experienced the feeling of loneliness and each of us has tried to fill this void with “something”. It’s a matter for “someone” and “someone” is sharing their life with another person.
One of the most successful Ukrainian directors, Stas Zhyrkov, searches for answers and explores the themes of loneliness, age, marriage and divorce in the play “Marriage”. The performance is based on the motifs of NV Gogol’s play, which even after 180 years invites us to look deeper and search for meaning and/or answers.
Why? Because the theater cares! It is not the numbers in the statistics that matter (unfortunately, Lithuania and Latvia are the leaders in divorces, 3.1 divorces per 1,000 inhabitants), but the topic that is relevant today and tomorrow. The theater is concerned with the analysis of a time slice, reflection on world events and societal problems, disclosure of topics that may be (un)popular and/or (un)relevant here and now. And their relevance depends only on our desire to understand these topics.
During the performance, you will feel close to what will happen on stage. In the restored five-room apartment, the audience will have the opportunity to feel as if they were there. Such closeness of the viewer is necessary in order to fully immerse oneself in the reality of what is happening.
Thanks to the Lithuanian dramatist Gabrielė Labanauskaitė, the characters of the play – funny and comical – are brought to the present, more recognizable and close, and their dialogues are more relevant and acute for today’s problems.
We promise: during the performance, some will laugh and smile at the comedy of strange situations, others will recognize their own life experiences, which are not always so easy to laugh at…
April 4 6 p.m. “Marytė” (dir. Stas Zhyrkov) N-14
Tickets: from €8
Tickets here: https://kakava.lt/pirkti-bilietus/4244/13945
The play “Marytė” tells how the children of Little Lithuania, called “Wolfskinder”, were separated from their families or became orphans at the end of the Second World War and after the war. There were about 7,000 of them. When they were little, with one of their parents (usually their mother) or with complete strangers, they went looking for a bite of bread, the older ones – to take a bite home. Due to hunger, “wolf children” fled to Lithuania, some reached Latvia, Estonia, Belarus, Ukraine. The experience of these children is exceptional. Hunger and fear were the companions of their childhood. The “wolf children” who lived in Soviet-occupied Lithuania for a long time could not publicly share their memories, and the victims of violence and coercion were deliberately kept silent. Giving up their own identity was the only condition for the survival of such children. Only after regaining independence did these people have the opportunity to start looking for themselves, to find out and register the real year of birth, places, names and surnames, and to find their relatives. “Wolf children” of German origin living in Lithuania (around three to sixteen years old at the time) gathered in the “Edelweiss-Wolfskinder” community, which still exists today, helping to discover their roots and nurture traditions and culture.
April 6 11 o’clock “Mushroom Peace” (dir. Andra Kavaliauskaitė) FOR CHILDREN
Tickets: from €6.00
Tickets are here: https://kakava.lt/pirkti-bilietus/4392/13943
“Peace of Mushrooms” is a children’s concert program based on one of the most popular works of literary classic Justin Marcinkevičius – the verse poem “Mushroom War”. Only this time, the mushrooms decided not to talk about war, but about peace, devotion, sacrifice and love for one’s neighbor, home, land and one’s language, carefully revealing the harm that can be caused by following vanity, arrogance and selfishness. This story happened many years ago, but the mushrooms still remember it, it is in their roots. They made a promise to pass this story down from generation to generation so that no one would ever forget: the earth does not need war. Hearts do not need war. We need love and the opportunity to live without fear, creating a world that is peaceful, safe and good to live in. The performance is included in the Culture Passport service package.
April 10 11 o’clock “Tūla” (dir. Albertas Vidžiūnas) N-16
Tickets: from €6.00
Tickets here: https://kakava.lt/pirkti-bilietus/3868/13944
“Tula” talks about youth.
Jurgis Kunčina’s novel “Tūla” is a work of Lithuanian literature, where the panorama of the late Soviet era unfolds against the background of unfulfilled love stories, longing and passing time.
A young man’s search for himself confronts a lingering false reality. What else is certain? This is love… but it is fragile and timid, completely unable to exist in the real world – the chaste Tula.
The news about the dead lover shocks the hero of the performance, provokes memories and the desire to reveal the secret of the main character Tula.
The musical key to unfolding this story is a minimalistic, authentic sound that complements the plot. The scenography of an unadorned picture of life, a window, like a screen, where frames of memories scroll and the rustle of rusty metal pipes reaches from the subconscious…
“Tula” is a play about an era whose echoes still haunt many, frighten, and only irony allows us to look at the past carefully and unsentimentally. This confrontation with the past forces us to be constantly ready for confession.
April 18 6 p.m. musical performance “Baltaragio’s Mill” (dir. M. Mičiulytė)
Tickets: from €8
Tickets here: https://kakava.lt/pirkti-bilietus/7687/14264 (only a few tickets left – hurry!)
Miraculous events, revived myths, romantic love and the snares of the evil – this is the classic story of Kazi Boruta’s “Baltaragi’s Mill”, doomed to unfading popularity. The work of Lithuanian literature, in which the writer created a true Lithuanian epic by combining the form of a novel and the rich legacy of folklore, is being revived on the stage of the Alytus Theater in a musical format.
The musical performance “Baltaragios Malūnas” is an eternal struggle between good and evil, about the struggle between man and the devil for his soul and a happy life, intertwined with the romantic love story of Girdvainis and Jurga. Supernatural phenomena, spells, evil forces defeat fragile human nature.
In this performance, as in the folklore, special attention is paid to the character of the devil – it seems that all life revolves around him. And has anyone thought why Pinčiuk acts like that? What are the motives for his behavior? The character of Pinčiukos in the play is not treated as a hostile and destructive force, not as the embodiment of evil, but as a young person who, due to his otherness, loneliness or character traits, is dehumanized, demonized, pulled to the fringes of society.
It is a human drama, a struggle against evil, which primarily symbolizes the Sisyphean struggle with fate. After all, human life is often ruled by unknown, foreign, even hostile forces that mortals cannot overcome. However, even in defeat, we can preserve our human dignity and proudly face the trials that fate sends us.
April 20 11 o’clock contemporary clowning “Čiurlionis pasaka” (dir. Žilvinas Beniūšis) FAMILIES
Tickets: from €6.00
Tickets here: https://kakava.lt/pirkti-bilietus/7436/13946
Alytus City Theater opens its doors to the still little-known genre of modern clowning in Lithuania and invites you to the children’s play “Čiurlionis pasaka”. The play about the famous painter and composer Mikalojs Konstantinas Čiurlionis is created by director Žilvinas Beniušis, the pioneer of this genre in Lithuania.
At the epicenter of the play is Čiurlionis himself, who is told by his daughter Danutė, who was born almost at the same time that Čiurlionis had to leave this life. She talks about Čiurlionis as if creating a fairy tale, full of bright characters and magical events related to reality (and creativity). The whole action takes place in the artist’s studio, which becomes the place of his life and fantasy.
A comical and at the same time magical atmosphere is created thanks to clear physical acting and magical scenography related to the artist’s paintings. In the play, Čiurlionis is portrayed as a cheerful Chaplinian hero, with a big heart, constantly getting into comical situations. His life is like a circus performance, which never lacks a little magical element.
The show is recommended for children from 6 years old and the whole family.
April 25 6 p.m. “Marriage” (Director: Stas Zhyrkov) based on NV Gogol’s play N-16
Tickets: from €12
Tickets here: https://kakava.lt/renginys/vedybos/6709/13495
Try to understand and interpret what people think about being together in our digital, changing and war-torn times. Why do they need each other? What motivates us to look for a friend and what causes us to break up?
Each of us at different times in our lives has experienced the feeling of loneliness and each of us has tried to fill this void with “something”. It’s a matter for “someone” and “someone” is sharing their life with another person.
One of the most successful Ukrainian directors, Stas Zhyrkov, searches for answers and explores the themes of loneliness, age, marriage and divorce in the play “Marriage”. The performance is based on the motifs of NV Gogol’s play, which even after 180 years invites us to look deeper and search for meaning and/or answers.
Why? Because the theater cares! It is not the numbers in the statistics that matter (unfortunately, Lithuania and Latvia are the leaders in divorces, 3.1 divorces per 1,000 inhabitants), but the topic that is relevant today and tomorrow. The theater is concerned with the analysis of a time slice, reflection on world events and societal problems, disclosure of topics that may be (un)popular and/or (un)relevant here and now. And their relevance depends only on our desire to understand these topics.
During the performance, you will feel close to what will happen on stage. In the restored five-room apartment, the audience will have the opportunity to feel as if they were there. Such closeness of the viewer is necessary in order to fully immerse oneself in the reality of what is happening.
Thanks to the Lithuanian dramatist Gabrielė Labanauskaitė, the characters of the play – funny and comical – are brought to the present, more recognizable and close, and their dialogues are more relevant and acute for today’s problems.
We promise: during the performance, some will laugh and smile at the comedy of strange situations, others will recognize their own life experiences, which are not always so easy to laugh at…
TOURS:
April 12 Art printing house/VILNIUS
1 p.m. “Mushroom Peace” (dir. Andra Kavaliauskaitė) FOR CHILDREN
6:30 p.m. Monoplay (storytelling) “SEEN” (dir. Andra Kavaliauskaitė) N-16
Alytus City Theater information
