Kosmos Theatre (Lietuva) | DILETANTAS / PREMJERA

Jean Cocteau is a hard-to-cover, hard-to-understand personality, whose dilettantism flowed in different areas of art, like fragments of a particularly thick poetic world - unfinished, unimproved, rushed, reminiscent of nothing, unlike anything else.

He is both a playwright and a poet, a painter, a draftsman, a prose writer, a graphic designer, a music manager, a boxing manager, an opium addict, who has a falling out with André Breton, but a good friend of Igor Stravinsky, Marcel Proust, Nobel laureate Andres Zides, Pablo Picasso or Erik Sati.

Father's suicide, influence of Catholicism and surrealism, boxing and parallels of ballet, addiction to opium, traveling around the world, a hobby of playing the piano, friendships with special artists of the time and creativity, poetry, drama, prose, cinema, theater, circus, music and everything else - these are the main themes of Cocteau's life, which become the main the object of an audiovisual intermedial narrative created on a laboratory basis.

The work freely improvises with motifs from Jean Cocteau's graphic and artistic works, poems, novels "Opium", the play "The Human Voice" and the films "Blood of the Poet" and "Testament of Orpheus" and biographies.

"The material of the performance becomes Cocteau himself, perceiving him as an interdisciplinary artist, and even more so - as a montage of different media and disciplines. After dividing these disciplines (cinema, surrealist objects, music, literature, fashion, etc.) and giving them to each of the members of the creative team, we aimed to break this montage back into separate media and re-edit it into intermediate numbers with smaller details that are harder to recognize and larger details that are easier to recognize . The team and I looked for indirect connections, parallels, poetic paradoxes that would establish a symbolic kinship between themes, images and symbols that have nothing in common outside the work. We created this with the help of media art, animation, dramatic acting, mechanized scenography, theater of puppets and objects, sound space and other modern theater tools," - director and dramatist of the play Žilvinas Vingelis.

Recommended age: from 12 years old
The performance will be in English
Duration: 45 min.

Important information:
Accessible for people with mobility impairments;
Not suitable for the hearing impaired;
After the start of the event, spectators who are late will not be allowed in;
If you bought a discounted ticket, you will need to present your student/student/retired/disabled ID card to the entrance control along with your ticket;
Photography and filming will take place at the event.

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