GUAŠAS. Rež. Adomas Juška

Director: Adomas Juška
Set designer, costume designer: Barbora Šulniūtė
Composer: Ieva Parnarauskaitė
Director's assistant: Lukas Petrauskas
Stars: Andrius Bialobžeskis, Aleksas Kazanavičius, Aušra Pukelytė, Jovita Jankelaitytė, Martynas Berulis, Augustė Šimulynaitė, Simonas Storpiristis

At school, a person first gets acquainted with a defined social environment, with official and unwritten power structures. Once caught up in these rules, he must find his role, through the immature and often embarrassing path of acting. He does not yet know that these masks and mannerisms with the help of which he creates his role are not as temporary as they may seem. They leave a deep and bright imprint on their inner side, and when you try to take them off, you are surprised to see the same image under the mask. In other words, school is a long and difficult way for a person to become himself - through imitation, through adaptation, through acting. I'm interested in those masks, mannerisms, like a character's costume, which new children wear over and over again, in the same place, and then leave behind for future generations.

In an abandoned school , which has not been visited by students for a long time, the bell rings and exactly those costumes, gestures, and masks begin to function autonomously. What rituals do they perform? What stories do they tell? It is like an old school diary, written by neither children nor adults, where the past mixes with imagination, where the destinies of whole classes and unfulfilled dreams are marked. The actors' acting logic is not conventional, they do not play separate, strictly defined characters. The actions they perform do not belong to them, they are only an echo, a repetition of the gestures and mannerisms of the past. The overall picture, in which instead of ideas we see parodies and imitations of ideas, is a phantasmagorical and immature microcosm of the world.

Adomas Juška, director of the performance

Premiere: 2022 September 10.

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