ATSITIKTINIS ŽMOGUS rež. J. Vaitkus

Performance "Random Person" (Director J. Vaitkus)

2025 On February 28, April 24 and May 22, the theater of VDU (S. Daukanto St. 27, Kaunas) will be able to see a performance based on the play of the subtle contemporary French playwright Yasmina Reza, which has been recognized by theater critics and liked by the audience.

" A random person" speaks with refined irony about the joy of life, despair and fragility, about the search for closeness. "Y. Reza's dramaturgy is light intellectual theater. It brought back to the theater a whole generation of people who found serious dramas too long and often boring, and light comedies too trite to occupy their precious time," aptly summed up The Spectator reviewer.

Train, traveling from Paris to Frankfurt, a man and a woman meet in a coupe. He is a famous writer, she is his fan, but their connection is not so easy. The play consists of the characters' internal monologues - bursting streams of thoughts. "My plays are often called comedies, the audience laughs a lot, but I think they are tragedies. These are funny tragedies, but still tragedies," Yasmina Reza describes her work, whose plays, awarded with many prestigious prizes, are staged from Berlin to Buenos Aires.

Aging writer, author of the novel "Random Man" , Arvydas Dapšys, who plays Mr. Parskis, says: "It seems to me that in this performance we managed to show that age is not an obstacle for a miracle to happen. Therefore, we aged our heroes with make-up. For some reason, we think that nothing amazing can happen to the elderly. But it happens. Of course, not every day. The greater the impression of a miracle".

Critic Daiva Šabasevičienė wrote about the performance, whose atmosphere is characterized by a suggestive combination of comedy and melancholy: "Random Man" is characterized by cleanliness, minimalism and a bright concept. The main tool of the performance is the language of shades. There are so many half-tones of acting here, there are so many opportunities left for them to multiply, that one becomes envious, looking at the creative bliss experienced by the actors. This performance, like a rare one, has a lot of possibilities to vary and multiply subtexts. Not only does it not last long, but it passes in a flash. The audience reacts to him in one breath, without any sneezing or coughing. You even want a sequel: what will happen next after the "happy ending?"

Translated from French by Akvilė Melkūnaitė

Director - Jonas Vaitkus

Set designer - Vilma Galeckaitė-Dabkienė

Costume designer - Diana Lozoraitienė

Acting - Goda Piktytė and Arvydas Dapšys

Producer of the play - VšĮ "Teatras Mens Publica"

Co-producer - VDU Theater

Partners - French Institute in Lithuania, Journal "IQ"

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