Čia ir dabar

"Here and now" by Roland Schimmelpfennig

Translated from German by Lauryns Katkus

Here and now - a summer evening . It's late, but it's still warm. Guests are sitting at a long table laden with food. Celebrating the wedding of Katia and Georg. Here and now - it is heard who they will be in the future. Here and now - birds chirping, children's songs and an old horn. Now or never. Not now, never again.

The work of one of the most famous contemporary German playwrights, Roland Schimmelpfenning, resembles the experience of looking through a kaleidoscope. Only instead of multi-colored pieces of glass, fragments of reality are added to the inside of the optical device, the reflections of which create the feeling of daydreaming. R. Schimmelpfenning became familiar to the audience of the Theater of Freaks back in 2015. with dir. Giedrė Kriaučionytė's performance "The Woman". Now the German playwright returns to this stage in the form of the performance "Here and Now" directed by Agniaus Jankevičius.

For the first time, the audience of the Lithuanian theater is presented to the audience of the play, based on the motives of which the play is staged, in the epicenter - a game with the relationship between man and time. What prevents a person from being here and now, like an annoying mosquito? One answer could be the uncertainty of the future, all the fears and hopes we try to lean on when faced with the unknown, which, no matter how meticulously we plan, we still cannot fully predict. And try to imagine an important, significant, life-changing event where you would know exactly how your life will change. Let's say a wedding where you would be told how the love of the newlyweds will end.

The time of "here and now" opens in a poetically absurd, comically dreamlike, paradox-like reality, which "relieves" a person from the fears and hopes of the future, because the future time appears here not as an infinite set of possible scenarios, but as something that is known in advance. All this is like a mosaic coming together in a phantasmagoric wedding celebration, which, if you listen carefully, you would already hear the commotion around you.

Director - Agnius Jankevičius

Starring: Gabrielė Aničaitė, Viola Klimčiauskaitė, Kamilė Lebedytė, Benita Vasauskaitė, Vesta Šumilovaitė, Dalius Skamarakas, Danas Kamarauskas, Jurgis Marchėnas, Vaidotas Žitkus, Aleksandras Kleinas, Eimantas Bareikis, Matas Pranskevičius.

Scenographer - Laura Luišaitytė

Duration: 3 hours. (with a break)

N-16

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by Roland Schimmelpfennig

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THE LITHUANIAN COUNCIL OF CULTURE

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