Eugène Ionesco. RAGANOSIAI, rež. Antanas OBCARSKAS

January 8 the play RAGANOSIAI is subtitled in English. The credits are best seen in lines 8-12.

Translated from French by Vincentas Klipčius

Director - Antanas OBCARSKAS

Authors of video projections - Adomas GUSTAINIS, Ričard ŽIGIS

Light artist - Dainius URBONIS

Choreographer - Ieva NAVICKAITĖ

Authors of the cat character - Pakui Hardware (Neringa Černiauskaitė and Ugnius Gelguda)

The author of the masks is Donatas JANKAUSKAS (Duonis)

The music is performed by: — Chordos String Quartet, Agnė Matulevičiūtė, Matas Samulionis, Dominykas Snarskis, Danielius Skeivelas, Gediminas Stepanavičius

Director's assistant — Deivydas VALENTA

Producer — Kamilė ŽIČKYTĖ

Berange — Martynas NEDZINSKAS

Zhans - Kirilas GLUŠAJEVS

Deizė - Toma VAŠKEVIČIŹĖ, Žygymantė JAKŠTAITĖ

Diudaras - Kęstutis CICĖANAS

Old Mr. Botars - Arūnas SAKALAUSKAS

The logician, Mr. Papijon — Gytis IVANAUSKAS, Marius REPŠYS

The woman with the cat, Mrs. Beuf — Rimantė VALIUKAITĖ

The waitress — Aistė ZABOTKAITĖ, Vaidilė JUOZAITYTĖ

Owner — Naglis BIERANCAS

Translated from French by Vincent KLIPČIUS

Rhinoceros already in your city! Join the progress!

How fast they are. Strong. Monumental! Undoubted. Logical. And you? You don't exist because you don't think. Start thinking and it will appear. It's more than an invitation. Turn into a rhinoceros! Just look how beautifully they dance! They sing and dance!

At first they may have been a minority, but now they are definitely not. There are more and more of them. You will also find your own people there. Your coworkers and neighbors. All the elite are there. Your manager, the mayor, the most important influencers. It is easy to criticize from the side, but the truth can only be seen from the inside, only when connected. After all, you see what is happening - reality changes before your eyes. After many crises, the world has changed beyond recognition. Keep up with the times.

So what will be your choice? Will you continue to sit in the cafe? Another little one? Or will you join? But will you succeed? Will you be the last person in your town?

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On a quiet Sunday afternoon, representatives of various social circles gather in a cafe located in the square of a typical French provincial town. They talk about their lives and about politics. Those discussions help to understand the problems not only of France, but also of Europe as a whole. In the space of the cafe, characters not only gather, but also move away from each other. Rhinos unexpectedly appear in the town and destroy normal life, and the hallucination becomes a provocation.

"Rhinoceros" is one of the most famous plays of the Romanian-born French playwright Eugène Ionesco and one of the most popular of the 20th century. comedies. Despite the many features characteristic of the theater of the absurd, as well as the work of the playwright, "Rhinoceros" is considered one of the most unusual works of E. Ionesco. The play depicts the gradual transformation of humanity into rhinoceroses, thus metaphorically conveying the collapse of personality, the human desire to be the same as everyone else, to merge with the mass. The playwright focuses on the individual and his place in society, the longing for meaning deeply rooted in man.

"E. I see Ionesco's play as a study of the modern world. Four of her paintings contain the situation of today's world: lack of communication, having a job that you don't like, and at the same time a growing fear of losing it, a different concept of reality, considerations about a community divided by populist ideas and increasingly radicalized, and attempts to understand what a person and humanity are. Doesn't a person come back to life?", the director ponders. A. Obcarskas. He says that when staging this play, he intends to reveal not only the most relevant, but also the most comical nuances of "Raganosiai". lta Doors open: 1 a.m. until the event
Duration of the event: ~ 3 hours
Intermissions: two parts
Language of the event: Lithuanian
Children of preschool age are not admitted to the performance. Children are admitted for free: no
Age censorship: N-16 Late spectators are not allowed into the hall.
Discounts: December no discounts apply to performance tickets.

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