VŠDT | PRARASTA KATARINOS BLUM GARBĖ | rež. Agnius Jankevičius

Actress Aistė Šeštokaitė was nominated for the Golden Stage Cross (2022) in the actress category for the role of Katarina Blum in the performance "Lost Katarina Blum. The story

Criminal - Musical Case

Duration - 3.5 hours, one break

premiere - 2022. September 10

Director and staging author - Agnius Jankevičius

scenographer and costume designer - Laura Luišaitytė

Video projection author - Rimas Sakalauskas

Jankevicius

plays:

Katarina Blum - Aistė Šeštokaitė

Hubert Blorna - Josif Baliukevich

Trude Blorna - Jūratė Budriūnaitė

Stroybleler-Rolandas Dovydaitis

Courier-Severin Norgaila

Woman-Rimanta Krilavičiūtė

Operator Seklys-Mindaugas Jurevičius

Musicians-Polarici Commissariat-Pijus Ganusauskas Jalianiauskas

in video projections: Aidas Matutis, Vilija Paleckaitė, Eduardas Pauliukonis, Rolandas Dovydaitis, Anicetas Gendvilas, Aistė Šeštokaitė, Tautvydas Galkauskas, Saulius Čiučelis. wealthy citizens' homes. One evening, after receiving a friend's invitation, Katarina goes to a party where she meets a sympathetic guy and spends night with him. In the morning, the guy wakes up no longer finds, and the police who invaded her apartment is arrested by Catharin as a accomplice of a terrorist group with whom the guy is associated with. The name of Catarina is immediately in the focus of the media. The police are thoroughly afraid of the suspect's life: her notebooks, statements of savings accounts, income, expenses, personal letters, car mileage. There are loud headlines in the press, and people who know Katarin first rush to rescue their reputation. Paradoxically, in this process of "seeking truth", no one cares about the true truth - exceptions here are rules, doubts - allegations, meaningless phrases are rewritten by replacing sentences, commas and words. This is how the elephant is made from the fly.

Director Agnius Jankevičius tells the story of Katarina Blum, using the format of popular TV music conversations. The content of the performance is presented to the audience as if it were dynamic, humorous, witty interviews and lively "late evening shows". This performance, whose genre is playfully described as a musical-criminal case, is like a lightweight parody of a musical that is full of humor, irony and a critical look at today's society. Live music and songs, which are filled with songs, open up to many of our little -known sensational stories behind the scenes, in which ordinary lives are lightweight into intriguing shows.

The story of Katarina Blum seems to be written these days, but the novel by the Nobel laureate Heinrich Böllis, which produced a performance, appeared 50 years ago. Even today, the stunning narrative was created on the basis of real events and, as soon as it appeared, received a great deal of political resonance in Germany. At the time, many Western German citizens were accused of working with left -wing extremists in cooperation with left -wing extremists. Although almost all of the printing suspicions were not confirmed, some of the accused were irreversibly damaged by reputation, mental and physical health. Böllis knew the backstage of "dirty" games well and put his experience in the story of the ordinary girl Katarin Blum.

The "Lost Katarina Blum honor" speaks of each of our personal security vulnerability, quick melting boundary between privacy and publicity, Interpretations, hypocrisy and liars we face every day.

Awards:

XXXIX Lithuanian Professional Theater Festival "Starring Farmers" Prize for Best Performance (Rokiskis, March 2023 CLASS ="Msonormal" Style ="MSO-MARGIN-TOP-ALT: Auto"> When buying 10 or more tickets you can apply for: vipklienti@bilietai.lt