VMT Premjera | KATĖ ANT ĮKAITUSIO SKARDINIO STOGO rež. Ch. Weise, pjesės aut. T.Williams

Vilnius State Small Theater invites the audience to the premiere performance of contemporary German director Christian Weise (b. 1973) "Cat on a Hot Tin Roof" based on a vintage play by American playwright Tennessee Williams, for which the author was awarded the prestigious Pulitzer Prize. This is one of T. Williams' most famous works, revealing the desire for close relationships and the suffering of passions. A movie was made based on this play, and the play was staged several times in Lithuanian theaters. However, this time, this classic play will be revived on the stage of the theater in a new, unexpected way, because it will be revived on the stage of the Vilnius Small Theater by a director distinguished by his unique character and style. Ch. Weise. In many of his plays, the stories are constructed using a sort of "perverse", multi-layered, absurd, ironic, comic way of telling. The characters of the performances are bright, interesting, unique, the director's language is unusual, but it is used to reveal the story, seemingly completely naturally. This in itself creates a picturesque, extravagantly strange atmosphere in which the whole story develops.

The play tells the story of how a plantation owner living in the south of the United States, Daddy, celebrates his birthday with his whole family. Dad is terminally ill, but he doesn't know it yet. Therefore, a struggle for inheritance begins among his descendants. While her son Guper, his wife Mäjė and their spoiled children play a happy family in front of Daddy, Megė tries to convince her alcoholic husband Brikas to participate in the scramble for Daddy's pots of gold. However, Brik has already withdrawn from this competition. Not only because he had to give up his football career after the injury, but also in order to hide his love for his former teammate Captain and not appear to be a "pedic" in the eyes of his family and society. However, Megė is a persistent "cat on a hot tin roof", later resolutely stepping into the unknown - she promises to give birth to Brick's child, presenting the pregnancy to Dad and the whole family as a fact.

This 1955 . written in 1974 updated play (this one was chosen by the director), the film version of which won an Oscar, Ch. Weise tells it as a horrifying story. Under the guise of kinship and supposed concern for relatives, there is a merciless struggle for hard-earned wealth. No outsiders are welcome here. He who, like Brick, strays from the established track, is brought back. An unpleasant truth is glossed over.

Ch. Weise, an experienced researcher of bourgeois lifestyle, discovers biting humor in T. Williams's worldview and creates a worldview that best reveals the intentions and motives of the characters.

American writer Tennessee Williams (Tennessee Williams, real name - Thomas Lanier Williams, 1911-1983) is today considered one of the three most influential artists of the 20th century. playwrights who, together with contemporaries Eugene O'Neill and Arthur Miller, maintained the high level of American theater in the 1950s and 1960s. Critics call T. Williams's works "poetic realism", their psychological layers show people's imperfection and weaknesses in the face of the life that has enslaved them. The author's creative legacy is 30 plays, numerous short stories, poems and short stories, which, together with the writer's impressive biography, remain the subject of research by many literary historians.

T. Williams about his plays: "It is a cry, almost a scream, for the need for a universal, deeply human effort to know oneself and others much better - enough to recognize that no man is more privileged to know what is right and what is virtuous than another who knows, what is hypocrisy and what is evil and so on. If men—races and nations—started from this self-acknowledged truth, then, I believe, the world would withdraw from this degeneracy, which I have unconsciously chosen as the essential, allegorical theme of all my plays.

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"CAT ON A HOT TIN ROOF is presented by special arrangement with The University of the South, Sewanee, Tennessee."

Prepared for the Vilnius State Small Theater in cooperation with the Lithuanian Goethe Institute, Ministry of Culture of the Republic of Lithuania

CAT ON A HOT TIN ROOF

Creative team:

Director – Christian Weise (Germany)

Author of the play - Tennessee Williams

Playwright - Beate Seidel (Germany)

Designer - Julia Oschatz (Germany)

Costume designer - Josa Marx (Germany)

Composer - Jens Dohle (Germany)

Lighting artist - Audrius Jankauskas

Special mechanical effects - Aistis Kavaliauskas

p>Costumer's assistant - Sidas Martinavičius

Director's assistant - Andrius Merkevičius

The play was translated into Lithuanian by Lilija Vanagienė

The translation of the play was revised and updated by Andrius Merkevičius

Translator from German during rehearsals - Jūratė Sviackevičienė

Plays:

MARGRETA - Teklė Baroti

BRIKAS - Šarūnas Januškevičius

MOTHER - Gintarė Latvėnaitė-Glušajeva

MOTHER - Ilona Kvietkutė

DAD - Tomas Rinkūnas

FATHER TUKER - Balys Latėnas

GUPER - Tomas Kliukas

DOCTOR BO - Tomas Stirna

GIRL - Larisa Kalpokaitė

LITTLE BOYS: Jonas Braškys, Mindaugas Capas

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Musicians:

DRUMS - Ignas Kasikauskas

GUITAR - Žygymantas Juozas Bačkus

PREMIERE in 2024 October 3, 4, 5.

Duration: 1 hour. 50 min.

N-16 uses foul language, smoke is used.

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