Pagal Ukrainos moterų pasakojimus. LIUDIJIMAI, rež. Oskaras KORŠUNOVAS

"Current times and the ongoing war have posed a radical challenge to the theater - when reality is as it is now, any fiction becomes too little. It is impossible to put on a "normal" performance, but it is also impossible to remain silent . To dramatize what is happening, looking for metaphors and analogies, seems to be hopeless. And I don't think that there are any modern plays that reflect what is happening. So, the situation itself provoked the idea of ​​creating a documentary theater. It seems that this is the form the only possible one," says Oskaras Koršunovas, the director of "Testimonies". As soon as the war started, LNDT actresses started collecting the stories, who agreed to do it on a voluntary basis. They personally met with the women who fled from Ukraine and listened to them. Each story is an open and shocking confession: from simple life details to the reality of war, which a person who has not been there simply cannot imagine.

In the public space, we hear news about the war non-stop, there is a constant information battle, and lies are created. , various manipulations occur, so according to the developers, any real testimony is worth its weight in gold. "They really wanted those stories to be made public so that as many people as possible could hear them and the world would learn the truth," say the creators of Testimonies.

Stories like those presented in Testimonies cannot be found in any media. , because this is not a matter-of-fact interview by a journalist or a short report from the scene - it is a story of a woman telling another woman, a confession of a Ukrainian woman to a Lithuanian actress who is determined to give a voice to the story, to tell it sensitively, with respect, but without dramatizing it.

"This performance should in no way be related to any propaganda, beautification or pathos - just stories as they are," emphasizes Oskars Koršunovas, who brought the actresses together for the joint project.

In "Testimonies", the audience will hear stories about the loss of homes, forced separations with loved ones, eternal worry about children, crazy trips from cities under Russian fire, and in other cases - the crazy reality of staying in them. These are stories about existential decisions, abused homeland and abused bodies, about inner strength, intuition that comes from nowhere, and unexpected coincidences. And paradoxically, there is a lot of hope, even humor and optimism in those stories. N-16, a one-act play. Preliminary duration - 2 hours.

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