Platonas. DIALOGAI rež. Motiejus IVANAUSKAS

Plato. DIALOGUES, dir. Motiejus Ivanauskas The author and director of the staging — Motiejus IVANAUSKAScenographer — Izabelė NAREČIONYTĖ Costume designers — Izabelė NAREČIONYTĖ Composer — Matas SALADŽIUS Lighting artist — Vilius VILUTIS Assistant director — Regina GARUOLYTĖ ACTOR — Vytautas ANUŽISPolemarch I, Glaucon, Paul, Agathon — Paul JATKEVICH Thrasymachus, Gorgias, Hippias, Meletus — Šarūnas ZENKEVIČIUS, Motiejus IVANAUSKAS Voice, Diotima — Elzė GUDAVIČIŪTĖ Works used in the play translated from the ancient Greek language: Plato's "Feast" and "Socrates Apology" (translated by Merkelis Račkauskas), "Valstybė" (translated by Jonas Dumčius), "Gorgias" (translated by Tatjana Aleknienė), as well as fragments from Xenophon's Memoirs of Socrates (translated by Vanda Kazanskienė), Aristophanes' Frogs (translated by Antanas Dambrauskas). In 2019, Motiejus Ivanauskas won the Young Developers Platform competition organized by LNDT. The theme he proposed for the theater - to resurrect Plato's "Dialogues" on stage (Plato recorded the thought of his teacher, Socrates) - appeared to the commission to be worthy of further development. Motiejus Ivanauskas, who recently graduated from acting at the Lithuanian Academy of Music and Theater, says: "Many things testify that life is often important is the "golden mean". In other words, a balance between two opposite poles. This is true in psychology, in politics, and in the structure of a new play. In "Dialogues" the attention is drawn to the fact that Socrates' teachings seem to obviously call for the pursuit of "eternal values-virtues" - the development of wisdom, moderation, and will - but at the same time one can feel the "free" atmosphere of ancient Greece, the ironic attitude of Socrates towards himself, his interlocutors and to self-proposed reflections. This immediately sets a favorable mood, because Socrates does not consider himself omniscient, but simply brings certain problems to the surface, which then become obvious to everyone." Socrates - the main character of "Dialogues", who will be played by Vytautas Anužis - told his contemporaries directly what he thought about them. and their actions, and supported their reasoning with strong arguments in such a way that the interlocutors were often disappointed, because they realized that they could no longer object. However, Motiejus Ivanauskas says that now he really does not want to create an instructive work using Socrates' wisdom as a standard of truth (Socrates himself would probably not agree with this, as he repeatedly said: "I know that I know nothing"). Much more effective is the principle when the episodes are simply allowed to "float" among the audience, leaving the possibility to laugh, to object, perhaps to agree. The form of "dialogues" is especially suitable in the theater. As you know, Socrates, when talking to people, asked precise questions that led to the fact that the interlocutor clearly saw that he was contradicting himself and had to admit that he was wrong. The somewhat archaic manner of these dialogues may sound exotic, but it gives an opportunity to see, and when seen, to highlight the comic side of Socrates' conversations. The play also uses excerpts from the works: Xenophon's "Memoirs of Socrates" and Aristophanes' "Clouds". Sponsor of the play: LITHUANIA MINISTRY OF CULTURE OF THE REPUBLIC

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