Premjera! Birutė Kapustinskaitė. STAND-UP'AS PRASMEI IR BEPRASMYBEI , rež. Eglė ŠVEDKAUSKAITĖ

Director - Eglė ŠVEDKAUSKAITĖ

Set designer - Ona JUCIŘĖ

Costume designer - Dovilė GUDĆAĆUKAITĖ

Composer - Ernestas KAUŠYLAS

Mother - Vitalija MOCKEVIČIŹĖ

Son - Karolis KASPERAVIČIUS

"When I was invited to create this number, I said, ok, I will create it, but you know, it will be dark here . They say it's very good, people like the dark. I say, huh? He says, his. I say, well, let's go."

On the stage of the theater for the first time stand-up comedy - a genre that cleanses not only the narrator, but also the listener through laughter. Making another person laugh is really not an easy task. And an even more difficult task, which concerns the theater using humor as a form of communication, is to touch on the painful themes of mourning, loss, and suicide that are close to all of us. To stir up something unexpected in a person, to help them laugh at themselves, to look at painful experiences from the side in order to be able to come to terms with them.

The author of the play created together for the first time Birutė Kapustinskaitė and the director Eglė Švedkauskaitė invite the audience to travel together to new theatrical forms. and explore loss in the family during one stand-up comedy number.

The characters of the play: Mother - a famous TV host and Son - a successful stand-up performer - both are not looking for words in their pocket, but when faced with the loss of their Father they have to talk more and more however, it gets complicated. It's a story about letting go of anger, shame, guilt, and finding ways to open up to vulnerability and to each other.

Stand-up for Meaning and Meaninglessness is a comedic play about the main characters' attempts to communicate after the loss of their father. Black humor, self-irony and narrative humor (stand-up) are combined here with drama, weaving together a story about loss, about the relationship between mother and son with society's attitude to mourning and the resulting need to adapt," says the play's author, Birutė Kapustinskaitė.

"I think that the theater, as a means of communication with a public and wide audience, must talk not only about heroic death and sacrifice, but also about elementary, demystified mental health, must follow what is happening in society here and now, must educate empathy for people dealing with depression and other mental illnesses. This play is a way to talk about hope and the desire to live, even when you don't seem to know how to do it," director Eglė Švedkauskaitė.

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