KLAUSYMO RAGELIS

THE LISTENING PHONE

The play "The Listening Phone" based on the novel of the same name by Leonora Carrington

Director, author of the staging - Povilas Makauskas

Set designer and costume designer - Aleksandra Bogatyriova

Puppet artists - Jūratė Morkevičienė, Aleksandra Bogatyriova

Composer - Domantas Pūras

Leonora Carrington wrote the novel "Klausymo Ragelis" around 1950, although for a long time it was considered a work of the 1960s. However, according to the latest data, Leonora wrote the novel when she was in her thirties. First edition in 1974. published in Paris in French - Le Cornet Acoustique. The original English version of "The Hearing Trumpet" was published in 1976, and the novel was translated and published in Lithuania in 2021.

This literary work is a story that does not fit into any framework of genre classification. According to the director of the performance, Povilas Makauskas, "Klausymo Ragelis" is a complex, witty and dreamlike autofiction, reflecting the inner journeys of the writer's spirit, life experiences, and important historical facts of civilization and religions. The novel creates bright fantastic situations about ageless and today's really relevant environmental topics, human habits, revealing the spectacularity, absurdity and surrealism of reality.

The performance "Klausymo Ragelis" staged by the director Povilas Makauskas based on the mentioned novel is like a self-portrait of the soul and thoughts of the author of the novel. Mr. Makauskas describes the performance as imbued with wit, playfulness, and anarchism.

The life of Leonora, the author of the novel, was full of challenges - she was forcibly imprisoned in a psychiatric hospital, her parents disowned her and cut off all ties, her love and friendship with Max Ernst ended, she had to rebuild her life in Mexico . Leonora felt like a ninety-two-year-old unheard and locked up in a nursing home, waiting to die.

When creating a stage interpretation, the nature of the author's feelings, details of her biography, her other literary works, paintings are extremely important for the director. The novel's desire for transformation, meaning and love, which encompasses the whole soul, had a great influence on the creative process of the play, which is reflected in the dramaturgical line of the main character of the play, Mariana.

The publishers of the novel in Lithuania are the RARA ", the starting situation of the novel's action is presented - the main character, Mariana Leterbi, is a ninety-two-year-old woman who the modern world has made invisible, unheard, despised by her own family. One day, her friend Karmela gave Mariana a huge listening device that allowed her to hear everything that was happening around her. And then Mariana hears that her family is going to banish her to a Christian nursing home run by the impostor Dr. Gambit. Nursing homes and their surroundings are just a deception that old women live a "childlike and peaceful life". a fragmented world, a natural eruption of natural forces, which can only be experienced by those who live in continuous connection with nature. In the play, the construction of an alternative reality is evident - just like in Leonora's book, the plot of the play talks about the desire for a free and safe life, unfettered by societal norms or religious dogmas.

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