Premjera. Alice Birch. SAVIŽUDYBĖS ANATOMIJA, rež. Uršulė BARTOŠEVIČIŪTĖ

Director - Uršulė BARTOŠEVIČIŘĖ

Set designer and lighting designer - Agata SKWARCZYŃSKA

Costume designer - Lucija KVAŠYTĖ

Composer - Ieva PARNARAUSKAITĖ

Choreographer - Oksana GRIAZNOVA

Director's assistant - Deivydas VALENTA, Gustas RUPŠYS

Costume designer's assistant - Izidorius LIAUČIUS

Producer — Kamilė ŽIČKYTĖ

Vytautas ANUŽIS

Kęstutis CICĖNAS

Algirdas GRADAUSKAS

Žygymantė JAKŠTAITĖ

Augustė ŠIMULYNAITĖ

Jūratė VILŪNAITĖ

Translated from English by Rita KOSMAUSKIENĖ

The play "Anatomy of Suicide" intertwines the stories of three generations of women of one family: the lives and destinies of a grandmother, daughter and granddaughter are analyzed, recording the pivotal, chrestomatous, peculiar and completely domestic aspects of a woman's life stages and events. Explores themes related to the formation of family and romantic friendships, the mechanisms of intergenerational patterns and relationships, bereavement, societal expectations imposed on women, the anatomy of the act of suicide, and the analysis of sin: from its commission, repentance, mourning, blame, to forgiveness.

"Since I learned that a woman is born with all the eggs that are formed while she is still in the womb, I began to understand the question of generations in a much more physical way. Today it becomes very relevant to me - the experiences of our grandmothers genetically live in us, the historical traumas they experienced and the response to them are alive. Then I wonder: what kind of scars will my generation have, what political and historical signs will be encoded in the children who will live a hundred years from now?" - ponders director Uršulė Bartoševičiūtė, who is presenting her first play at the Lithuanian National Drama Theater.

Karolina is a woman living in a traditional marriage who, suffering from clinical depression, decides to commit suicide. Her daughter Ana, trying to escape her parents' relationship and life patterns, retreats to a commune, where she reconsiders the principles of community life and sinks into drug addiction. After giving birth to her daughter Bona, soon Ana also chooses suicide. Bona, for her part, tries to end the transgenerational trauma of suicide, to break the chain of such choices. She becomes a doctor and, unlike her mother, chooses a rational way to organize and understand the burden of her family history - she seeks medical, scientific answers. She decides to sell the family home and get sterilized. Although she is a lesbian and cannot have children biologically with her partner, it is important for Bona to prevent any possibility that she will continue this family and pass on to her descendants what she received from her mother and grandmother.

In the play, Karolina, Ana and Bona are portrayed as being of a similar age - they are all young women in their thirties, and their stories are told to the audience at the same time. Different time zones allow us to look at the life of one family not as a random combination of actions and reactions, but as a transgenerational chain of events.

The author of the play is British playwright and screenwriter Alice Birch. suicide, as the name suggests, looks at it anatomically, i.e. i.e. does not judge, value or justify the actions of women in order to achieve some narrative objectivity. The author, claiming that she wrote the work as a score rather than a play, allows the creative team of the play and the audience to look at the plot with the eyes of a detective - to notice and record the invisible symbols, signs and traces that accompany this family, and thus discover what each of us without thinking we repeat, we take from our parents, we carry from generation to generation.

Alice Birch's work is often compared to the plays of the scandalous British playwright Sarah Kane - they share a similar relationship with modern existentialism, depiction of people who often remain on the margins, analysis of borderline and extreme personal experiences - self-destruction, inefficiency of institutions (especially relations with medical workers), portrait of an overworked, surrendering woman, sexual and psychological abuse. Image of a woman leaving her last words as a testament.

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