VŠDT | NEBYLYS | rež. Jonas Vaitkus (vietoje PRARASTA KATARINOS BLUM GARBĖ | rež. Agnius Jankevičius (Perkeltas iš 2024.11.23))

Actress AISTĖ SŠESTOKAITĖ has been nominated for the "Golden Cross of the Stage" (2022) in the actress category for the role of Katarina Blum in the play "Lost Katarina Blum's honor".

LOST KATARINA BLUM'S HONOR

According to H. Böll's short story

Criminal - musical case

Duration – 3.5 hours, one intermission

Premiere – 2022. September 10.

Director and author of staging - Agnius Jankevičius

Set designer and costume designer - Laura Luišaitytė

Author of video projections - Rimas Sakalauskas

Lighting artist - Darius Malinauskas

Music - Agnius Jankevičius

Starring:

Katarina Blum - Aistė Šeštokaitė

Hubert Blorna - Josif Baliukevič

Trudė Blorna - Jūratė Budriūnaitė

Commissioner Beicmanė - Arnoldas Jalianiauskas

Aloyzas Štroiblėderis - Rolandas Dovydaitis

Courier - Severinas Norgaila

Woman - Rimanta Krilavičiūtė

Operator stalker - Mindaugas Jurevičius

Musicians-employees of the police station - Pijus Ganusauskas .

Katarina Blum, a calm-mannered girl with an impeccable reputation, works as a housekeeper in the homes of wealthy townspeople. One evening, after receiving an invitation from a friend, Katarina goes to a party where she meets a nice guy and spends the night with him. When she wakes up in the morning, she can't find her boyfriend anymore, and the police who break into her apartment arrest Katarina as an accomplice of the terrorist group with which the boyfriend is associated. Katarina's name is immediately in the center of media attention. The police carefully examine the suspect's life: her notebooks, savings account statements, income, expenses, personal letters, car mileage. Loud headlines appear in the press, and people who knew Katarina rush to save their reputation first. Paradoxically, in this "truth-seeking" process, no one cares about the real truth - exceptions are presented here as rules, doubts - as accusations, meaningless phrases are rewritten by changing the structure of sentences, the placement of commas and words. This is how a fly is turned into an elephant.

Director Agnius Jankevičius tells the story of Katarina Blum using the format of a popular TV music talk show. The content of the performance is presented to the audience as if it were a dynamic, humorous, "Late Night Show" punctuated by witty interviews and live musical numbers. This performance, whose genre is playfully described as a musical-criminal case, is like a light parody of a musical, which does not lack humor, irony and a critical look at today's society. The production, filled with live music and songs, reveals the behind-the-scenes "making" of sensational stories that many of us are not familiar with, where ordinary lives are lightheartedly transformed into intriguing shows.

The story of Katarina Blum seems to have been written these days, but the novel by Nobel laureate Heinrich Böll, on which the play is based, appeared 50 years ago. The story, which is still relevant today, was created on the basis of real events and as soon as it appeared, it received a great political resonance in Germany. At that time, many West German citizens were accused of collaborating with left-wing extremists with the help of irresponsible, sensation-seeking journalists. Although almost all the allegations made public by the press were not confirmed, some of the accused were irreversibly damaged in reputation, mental and physical health. H. Böllis knew well the backstage of "dirty" games and put this experience into a short story about an ordinary girl Katarina Blum.

The play "The lost honor of Katarina Blum" talks about the vulnerability of each of our personal security, the rapidly melting border between privacy and publicity, about the effects of random circumstances and media, about the endless manipulations, variations, interpretations, hypocrisies and lies we face every day.

Awards:

The main prize of the XXXIX Lithuanian Professional Theater Festival "Playing for Farmers" FOR THE BEST PERFORMANCE (Rokiškis, March 2023)

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