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

Light artist - Vaclovas Grinius

The play features - Dovilė Klementjeva, Ovidijus Kazarinas, Aidas Jurgaitis, Elona Karoblytė.

Leonora Carrington wrote the novel "The Listener" 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 Acoustic". The original English version "The Hearing Trumpet" was published in 1976, and the novel was translated and published in Lithuania in 2021.

This literary work - this 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 writer's inner journeys of the spirit, life experiences, important facts of the history of civilizations and religions. the habits of humanity, revealing the spectacularity, absurdity and surrealism.

The performance "Klausymo Ragelis" staged by the director Povilas Makauskas is like a self-portrait of the author of the novel. P. 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 forced 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 old woman locked 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 soulful transformation, meaning and love, which is reflected in the dramaturgical line of the play's main character Mariana, had a great influence on the creative process of the play. , presents the starting point of the novel's action - the main character, Mariana Leterbi - 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. The nursing home and its surroundings are just a deception that the old women live a "childlike and peaceful life". Listening Phone is a book about complete separation; it centers around people who can't hear or don't want to hear each other. It's about how we hear and how we don't hear or can't hear, and what happens when people can hear or see differently.

The Listening Handset, according to P. Makauskas, today's view is like an allegorical version of the apocalypse, depicting a split world, a natural eruption of natural forces, which can only be survived in an uninterrupted connection with those who live in nature.

N-16

Performance duration - 1 hour 40 minutes; Part 2 50 min Intermission - 15 min.

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