VŠDT | PATINA | rež. Eglė Švedkausaitė

MALE

A picture of one family

Duration - 1 hour. 35 min, without a break

* Patina - a thin green, brown or blue film on the surface of copper, brass, bronze articles, resulting from moisture or special treatment with oxidizers.

Early spring morning. It's falling apart. The family is about to sit down at the breakfast table, but one son is late. How can he afford it? After all, certain rules must be followed at home. Do not be late, do not hide anything, speak at the right time and be silent at the right time. These rules are obeyed by the family and must be obeyed by everyone who enters the door of the house.

In Virginija Rimkaitė's play "Patina" the closest people act, but their official and cold communication betrays that the playwright is telling us about family relations in crisis. In the center of the play is the Mother, who creates the myth of a harsh world outside the walls of the house and the opposite illusion of a safe home. However, security here equals unlimited control by family members. Eldest son Henrik, who has a congenital heart defect, does not have great social skills, so we watch his absurdly comical efforts to form relationships with the women Mother chooses to be his wives and nurses. The younger son Alberts works nearby, almost imperceptibly, whose silence is undoubtedly hiding something. The events of one day in the play lead to the dramatic consequences of rebellion against the Mother System.

The director of the show, Eglė Švedkauskaitė, says that she is intrigued by the world created by the Mother, in which other characters easily become hostages: "being merciless to herself as much as to others, the Mother protects the myth she created about the family's well-being and values. For society, family relations have always been a relevant topic - the family changes with the changing times and this causes fractures and conflicts between people with different beliefs, between different generations. In this performance, we will talk about the distorted reality, when family values ​​turn into a justification for cruelty".

Actress NOMEDA BĕCIŘĖ has been nominated for the "Golden Cross of the Stage" (2023) in the category "Female Role" for the role of Mother in the play "Patina".

Playwright - Virginija Rimkaitė

The director is Eglė Švedkauskaitė

Composer - Vytautas Leistrum

Set designer - Ona Juciūtė

Visual artist - Aneta Bublytė

Light artist - Julius Kuršis

Costume designer - Elvita Brazdylytė

Starring: Nomeda Bėčiūtė / Monika Šaltytė, Tautvydas Galkauskas, Josif Baliukevič, Aistė Šeštokaitė / Monika Geštautaitė, Inga Jarkova-Bučienė, Lina Bocytė.

Premiere in 2023 October 6, 7

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