Birutė Kapustinskaitė. SIBIRO HAIKU, rež. Augustas GORNATKEVIČIUS

The performance is intended for 8-12 year olds. for children

Movement coordinator - Gintarė ŠMIGELSKYTĖ

Director's assistant - Regina GARUOLYTĖ

Producer - Rugilė PUKŠTYTĖ

Miglė POLIKEVIČIŹĖ

Gediminas RIMEIKA

Jolanta DAPKŪNAITĖ

Augustė ŠIMULYNAITĖ

Marius REPŠYS

Lukas MALINAUSKAS

Based on the book "Siberian Haiku" by J. Vilė and L. Itagaki

Best of 2018 book for children The acclaimed comic book "Siberian Haiku" by Jurga Vilė and Lina Itagaki finds a way to tell children about the atrocities of exile and its everyday life in a sensitive and non-repetitive way. The play, like the book, focuses on children's experiences and a child's view of exile.

The character of the book Algiukas dreams of traveling around the world with his friend the goose Martyn. Soon it happens, but in a completely different way than he thought. Early in the morning of June 1941, a regiment of soldiers forced the boy, his sister Dalia, father Roma and mother Uršula out of bed and told them to prepare for the journey - thus, Lithuanians left for Siberia in droves against their will. The child is struck by many questions - why are they being deported? What are they doing wrong? Where is Siberia? There, in a distant and foreign land, the family has to survive by eating frozen potatoes, salting the soup with tears and warming their hearts with songs. The choir of exiles "Obuoliai" is born there, wings grow while singing there, and the hope of returning home is never abandoned.

"Jurga Vilė's book "Siberian Haiku", which inspired the play, finds a unique form to tell children about the extremely difficult experiences and experiences of exile through their own perspective on these atrocities. With the performance, we aim to maintain the playfulness of the book, which gives lightness to these stories and makes them more accessible to a young audience. When examining the theme of exile, the play aims not only to illuminate or recount the events, but also to help children understand what seems incomprehensible," says director Augustas Gornatkevičius, who is staging a play for children for the first time.

A. Gornatkevičius's theatrical manner is based on the constant combination of humor with serious problems, changing visuality, active physical movement, the use of symbols recognizable to the audience, and the enrichment of dramaturgy classics with contemporary issues. The theater director of the young generation, Augustas Gornatkevičius, has successfully proven that he can create not only for an adult audience, but also for children - for 2021. the director of the play "Emilii Emilis" was nominated for the Golden Stage Cross and the Fortune Award.

According to the director, his new work "Siberian Haiku" contributes to the preservation of national memory, the youth the formation of generational moral norms, promoting civic awareness, the ability to understand, empathize and inspire life. The themes of death, loss, and injustice seem to be the most difficult to explain to children, but the team of the performance does not run away from them, but seeks to make sense of them through the stories of the main character and his friends.

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