Laura Kutkaitė ir aktoriai. TEIRESIJO KRŪTIS, rež. Laura KUTKAITĖ

December 18 the play TEIRESIUS' CHEST is subtitled in English.

Director and playwright — Laura KUTKAITĖ

Text authors — Guillaume APOLLINAIRE, Laura KUTKAITĖ, Aistė ZABOTKAITĖ, Domantas STARKAUSKAS, Rytis SALADŽIUS, Vitalija MOCKEVIČIŹĖ, Dalia MICHELEVIĆIŹĖ

Set designer and costume designer - Paulina TURAUSKAITĖ

Composer - Agnė MATULEVIČIŹĖ

Choreographer - Agnietė LISIČKINAITĖ

Lighting artist - Julius KURŠIS

Director's assistant - Kotryna SIAURUSAITYTĖ

Dramaturgy assistant - Gintarė ILGINYTĖ

Producer - Vidas BIZUNEVIČIUS

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In the second performance at the Lithuanian National Drama Theater (in 2022 for her debut work "Silence of Sirens" she was awarded as the best young European director at the "Fast Forward" festival in Dresden) Laura Kutkaitė resists the French poet, playwright and novelist Guillaume' o Apollinaire's (1880-1918) surrealist work The Breasts of Teiresias and constructs a new text with the actors without committing to the original play. Together with the creative team and actors, we create our own surreal world based on the principle of associations, its logic sometimes more than we would like to resemble the one that surrounds us.

G. In Apollinaire's work, the blue-faced figure Tereza rebels against her husband. She grows a beard and mustache and shouts about how masculine she feels. Tereza becomes Teiresia (a figure of a blind prophet in Greek myths), so Tereza's husband decides to bear children himself, and at the end of the play, Tereza returns to the one from whom she fled.

"While reading the play, I was strongly influenced by two things: the woman the portrayal of her as only strong as a man, the equating of a woman to her womb, and perhaps most powerfully, Teresa's return to her husband. I want to immerse the audience in a kaleidoscopic, associative choreographic dream. I am interested in creating a performance as a stage poem. I want to return Teresa to the Husband again, meet an older Teresa and ask her: would she regret this step, or would she regret it? It becomes an almost insurmountable rhetorical question about people's beliefs imposed by social constructs about such deeply entrenched notions of femininity and masculinity. Due to the strong feminist position, my performances are like manifestos, but there is always a tear hidden in them. At the epicenter of this work is a very great doubt about manifestation itself. With this performance, I do not claim, but doubt. Therefore, for the first time, I feel hope.

I want "Teiresia's Breasts" (I am amputating one breast for Apollinaire without remorse) to be a dialogue about sexuality, dissident sexuality, the right to one's body. We must constantly fight for the right to our own bodies, because they also have a public dimension. The body, as the most radical form of our modernity in the theater and beyond, is today's social phenomenon, a battlefield. In the performance, it becomes the main space for us to raise questions using the merciless metaphor of war," says director Laura Kutkaitė.

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