DALYKAI, KURIŲ NEIŠDRĮSAU PASAKYTI, IR DABAR JAU PER VĖLU. Dramaturgė ir režisierė Kamilė Gudmonaitė

February 1, 2 performances THINGS I DARE NOT SAY AND NOW IT'S TOO LATE is dubbed into English. The credits are best seen in rows 9-14.

Director and playwright - Kamilė GUDMONAITĖ

Composer - Dominykas DIGIMAS

Scenographer and video projectionist concept author — Barbora ŠULNIŪTĖ

Choreographer — Mantas STABAČINSKAS

Costume designer — Juozas VALENTA

Lighting artist - Julius KURŠYS

Author of video projections - Jurgis LIETUNOVAS

Music director and conductor - Ričardas ŠUMILA

Choirmaster - Povilas BUTKUS

Sound director - Kastytis NARMONTAS

Translator - Erika LASTOVSKYTĖ

Brother - Ryo ISHIMOTO

Sisters - Emilia KAROSAITĖ, Viktorija ZOBIELAITĖ (dancers)

Mother - Jolanta DAPKÜNAITĖ

Grandfather - Vytautas RUMŠAS

Passengers - Diana ANEVIČIŹĖ, Mantas STABAČINSKAS, Arūnas VOZBUTAS

Sodo residents — Romalda ABRAMAITIENĖ, Dmitrijus BABAŠINSKIS, Sandra BIAIGO, Konstantin KOSOVEC, Daiva LENĖ, Rima VANIARCHINA

Passengers and other characters - LNOBT choir artists: Akvilė VIŠKELYTĖ-POTAPOVĖ, Gintarė RADAUSKAITĖ, Olga RADZEVIĆIĖ, Lina ŠARKIENĖ (sopranos), Evelina BLAŽIENĖ, Monika BUŽYTĖ, Jovita DOVSEVIČIUTĖ-ANTANAITĖ, Anna TROŠINA (violas), Egidijus JONAITIS, Mantas IVANAUSKAS, Kęstutis PAPARTIS, Georgij POPOV (tenors), Dainius JAKŠTAS, Žygymantas JASIņAS, Donatas ŽUKAUSKAS (baritones), Povilas BUTKUS, Šarūnas ČEPULIS (bass)

LNOBT symphony orchestra group — Dainius PESECKAS / Aistė BIRVYDAITĖ (violin), Tomas SAVICKAS / Gabriele ZANEUSKAITĖ (viola), Rokas VAITKEVIČIUS / Mykolas RUTKAUSKAS (cello), Donatas BAGURSKAS / Samanta IGNATJEVA (double bass), Vytautas SRIUBIKIS / Vytenis GURSTIS (flute), Vytautas GIEDRAITIS / Vilius KALVĖNAS (clarinet), Kazimieras JUŠINSKAS (saxophone) , Tomas KULIKAUSKAS, Almantas PUIDOKAS, Ernestas VERBA, Lukas BUDZINAUSKAS (percussion), Marija GRIKEVIČIŪTĖ (piano).

2010 Itaru Sasaki from Otsuchi, Japan learned that his beloved cousin had cancer and only three months to live. After his cousin's death, Sasaki set up an old phone booth in his yard so that he could communicate with the deceased every day, and his words would be carried away by the wind.

In 2011. A tsunami occurred in the vicinity of Otsuchi, killing 10 percent of the population. city ​​residents. Gradually, people found out about the phone booth and started visiting Itaru Sasaki Garden to call their lost loved ones.

From 2022. on March 1, just a week after Russia started the war in Ukraine, an old payphone, identical to the "wind phone" that stood in Japan, was placed near the Lithuanian National Opera and Ballet Theater. People were invited to stop by and "call" those who didn't get to say what they wanted in time and now it's too late. In more than 6 months, the phone was picked up about 4000 times. The audio recordings of all the authentic stories became the basis of the opera libretto.

The payphone opera "Things I didn't dare say and now it's too late" is a sensitive, delicate story of a person who is grieving, and at the same time it is a transparent cut through grief. opened geographical territories, a journey to meeting, reconciliation, experiencing the world as a whole.

Creators about the performance:

Taxofono opera is a poem for human transience. Delicate, human and sometimes witty images are created on the stage from here and there: bodies and objects appear here and disappear in the light and dark. Everything passes - people, time, places, things, events.

Director and playwright Kamilė Gudmonaitė

My relationship with the work, more precisely with by the "call" recordings of passers-by left on the payphone that make it up, it was constantly changing. At each stage of the long creative process, I discovered a different perspective on what each one expressed in the payphone booth. At first, as if listening to very open statements from the sidelines, I now reconsider them by standing in the place of the callers or their addressees. This opera posed considerable challenges: how to create the inner sound image of each of us, how to transfer the often extremely sensitive, delicate content of the calls - the sacred being - to the theater stage? Music, sound here becomes an invisible medium, spreading energy, telling what we didn't dare to say, and now it's too late.

Composer Dominykas Digimas

The scenery of this piece - it is an intermediate space, like a reflection of the inner world, a meeting where a relationship with the beyond is felt. The action takes place in a transitive space highlighting border states, where everyday life is intertwined with temporality and uncertainty. The visual atmosphere of the piece is dedicated to life and death, closeness and longing.

Scenographer and video projection concept author Barbora Šulniūtė

Producers of the play:

Partner: "Technarium"

The show is financed by: Ministry of Culture of the Republic of Lithuania, Lithuanian Culture Council, Vilnius City Municipality

The work was started to be developed in the context of the joint LNOBT and "Operomania" project "Opera Genome" in 2021.

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