VMT spektaklis | SCILĖ NORI BŪTI ŽMOGUMI

Synthesis of theater and cinema. One-Part Absurd Comedy

"Scilė wants to be human" is a theater project of a hybrid form based on the play "Mountain pose" by the artist and writer Paulina Pukytė, which, with the help of absurdity and satire, talks about the relationships between people as each other "brainwashing". In modern postmodern language, restrictive stereotypes that support gender inequality and other "traditions" are criticized here, as well as the position of a woman (especially a woman creator) in a patriarchal sexist world. The characters of the play are well-known characters from antiquity, who with all their cultural baggage found themselves in a different, unusual context.

Scylla, from the myth of the ship-sinking monsters Scylla and Charybdis, feels stuck in that "mountain pose". It no longer wants to be an immobile rock with only that one function, albeit a powerful one. Scilė wants to be a man (an allusion to the title of the film "Adomas wants to be a man", which became a classic of Lithuanian cinema). But what does it mean to be human? What does it take to become one? What are you risking? Scilė begins traditionally, with a visit to the "coucher" (life teacher) Kirkė. Odysseus, traveling through the country, and the "storyteller" Homer also taught us how to live. But will this be enough for Scyla, who also embodies other women-myths?

Director Gabrielė Tuminaitė, who called on video artist Aneta Bublytė and cameraman Eitvydas Doškės for help during the quarantine, began to explore the similarities and differences between theater and cinema with this play. , to experiment with their synthesis possibilities. According to G. Tuminaitė, P. Pukytė's conceptual texts are especially suitable for such a hybrid form of theater.

"This feminist absurdist play, as is characteristic of the author, is unconventional, extremely specific in its form, full of various cultural references, so when working with this material, you need to turn your head a lot", says G. Tuminaitė. The environment of people (her reaction, comments) is very important here, because the entire text of the play is constructed from the "garbage" of our language. The comments and avalanche of opinions of others overshadow the creative force and poetic expression, threatening to drown it and vulgarize it. So the question is raised here: is it easy and is it at all possible in such an environment not only to create, but also to survive, to be a person? Was this what Scilė expected, turning from a rock-monster into a human-poet?

In her directing work, G. Tuminaitė draws inspiration from the performing for camera genre born in America in the 1960s and 1970s and "vintage" television performances, and the film noir aesthetic that she tries to apply on stage. In this way, the theme of time - the change of everything and the repetition of everything - is highlighted, as well as the issue of the importance of perspective, point of view. The same characters who appear on stage live interact with themselves in the film (with their past or with their imaginations?). But on stage they are already different, they have changed a lot. Or maybe they just think that they have changed, but in fact they have basically remained the same? The image becomes apocalyptic, prophetic, or perhaps warning. Or maybe it just seems that way to us? Where is reality - here or there?

Author and dramatist of the play - Paulina Pukytė

Director - Gabrielė Tuminaitė

Scenography author - Aistis Kavaliauskas

p>Costume designers - Deividas Katkus and Sidas Martinavičius

Lighting designer - Mykolas Olšauskas

Sound director - Kristina Juškevičiūtė

Music - Fausto Latėnos and Mantos Mockaus

Make-up artists - Dalia Žakytė-Bučienė and Sidas Martinavičius

Movement consultant - Raidas Petrauskas

Plays:

Kirkė (witch) - Eglė Mikulionytė

Influencer - Agnė Šataitė

Two fake bunnies - Rasa Jakučionytė, Tomas Kliukas

Seller of artificial eyes - Edmundas Mikulskis

Premiere - September 8, 9.

Duration - 1 hour. 40 min.

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