VŠDT | BYDERMANAS IR PADEGĖJAI | rež. Gildas Aleksa

Max fris

Byderman and Arson"

Premiere 2024-03-16

Scenography and Costumes: K. Rupainytė

Starring: Arnoldas Jalianiauskas, Karolis Kasperavičius, Aistė Šeštokaitė, Džiugas Kunsman, Lina Bocytė, Mindaugas Jurevičius, Rusnė Navickaitė

For some time, the city has been terrified of arson. Pretending to be dealers, they fall into the house, settle in the attic and soon burn those houses. Such an uncontrollable situation in the city is particularly sufficient by the wealthy businessman Mr. Byderman. While smoking a cigar on his luxury home site and sipping red wine, he loudly resented with a newspaper reported by another arson, which is similar to the previous one than two drops of water: a good -hearted dealer settles in the attic and causes a fire. Byderman is forgotten because of such people's frivolity and declares that when the arson is caught, "need to be packed right away." At that moment, the maid announces that the arrival dealer is impatient to see Mr. Byderman. The stranger introduced himself to the homeless wrestler's surname, making and appealing to the businessman's humanity, convinces Byderman for at least one night to take up a newcomer ... From that moment on, the action turns at an uncontrollably rising speed. Benderman and his wife Babete could not even realize, the second "guest" settles in their homes, the attic fills the gasoline structures, and the newcomers are no longer hiding their arsonists. But Byderman, by the last moment, denies it and does not want to see what is really going on in his home. Bags in the hands of Byderman ... Will he succeed at a crucial moment to stop what his own help is done? What are the reasons for us to behave in such a way that we become accomplices in our collapse? Arsonists ”(1958) assigned to the category of absurd plays. So far, the play, under the guise of comedy format, tells about the fundamental conflict between security and freedom, raises the problems of justice and intelligentsia, and criticizes the behavior of society. This 20th century. The classic work invites us to rethink that our efforts to live a quality life are of little importance when others want us to not. According to the performance director Gilde Alexa, in the consciousness of the present European consciousness, this play triggers an essential and long -delayed narrative that includes the belief that disasters happen to others, somewhere else, while the largest pest is right here in the attic or "outside the door." This constant collective denial, typical of Lithuania and Western society, is very reminiscent of the Bydermian efforts to lie to itself and not to divide everything only into "black-white".

Byderman's name is playful in the German word" Bieder "(valuable, honest) and" mann "(man). In a more general sense, he describes the type of reference, easy-to-man-manipulative human mindset, when superficial values, attachment to a comfortable life overshadow the rational mind.

m. Frisha's dramaturgy can be described as an intellectual fantasy theater, so the performance is staged on a comic and playful basis, with elements of modern circus, acrobatics, physical comedy, absurd and magical tricks.

Gild Alexa: "This performance can be watched as a comedy about a comfortable average person who is accustomed to comfort As a dramatic story of our skills to change something in our fate, or as a printing of an ever -absolute life process, as a Christian morality about a reward for bad deeds, or as an essay on how much of our freedom we want to be safer. "

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