ŽMOGUS IŠ ŽUVIES. Rež. Eglė Švedkauskaitė

Eglė Švedkauskaitė, one of the most talented directors of the young generation of Lithuania, chose for her debut in the Youth Theater the play "Man from a Fish" by the rising star of Russian dramaturgy of the young generation, Asia Vološina. This text, which in its own way predicted the sad future of Russia at that time, was written in 2016. and included in the debut collection of plays Dying Chorus: Four Plays About Russia (2018).

I don't want to talk about one case, I want to talk about the death of Russia and metaphysical things , the strangest hypotheses and possibilities. I want to talk about self-destruction and how long it can last - this is how playwright A. Vološina describes her work.

According to director E. Švedkauskaitė, "Man from a fish ” is a linguistic labyrinth, a network of confessions breaking out at night, spoken by women's lips and heard by men's ears. This is a rare case in dramaturgy. For me, presenting Asia Vološina's play means inviting the viewer to a stretched-out time in which anxiety spreads. For yourself, for your body, for your child, for the country and the future. This is an opportunity to delve into the concept of freedom - what is it in a non-democratic environment? My defiance or non-resistance? Isn't appeasement and cynicism directed at a decaying order a form of self-imprisonment? And dependence on illusions and unfulfilled desires, helplessness, reluctance to take action and waiting for hope - all this is also a shackle to freedom, perhaps even tighter than the one imposed on a person by systems and ideologies. Reality (and the state) in this play is oppressive, it comes into the house, which the play's characters naively consider a sufficiently strong barricade, and takes what it wants. But if you shut yourself off from everyday life in your apartment, aren't you doing a service to the system itself? You back off. Realizing the absurdity of his stand at the rally, he rushes to the safe world of quotes and dreams at home. In the face of uncontrollable aggression promoted by today's Russia, it is audacious to ask this, but "Fishman" allows us to consider: what is the point of going to the squares, when you know the script of a regular picket by heart? If your gut is whispering louder and louder that you are dealing with a dead country whose body was cold before you were born?

Premiere: 2020 January 7.

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