RADVILA DARIUS, VYTAUTO. Muzikiniai paveikslėliai iš LTV archyvų

"Radvila Darius, Vytauto"
Musical pictures from Lithuanian television archives
"Radvila Darius, Vytauto" is a lively dialogue between music performed live by four instrumentalists and video excerpts from the LRT archives.
In the last years of the 1980s, the period of censorship in Lithuanian television ended. Problems, suggestions and comments accumulated over the years flooded the airwaves - everyone wanted to talk. Formally still without freedom, the audience quickly became involved in the search for a new identity, heroes and vision of a better future. The music, commenting on the images of the time, draws the audience into a tragicomic narrative of problems that began thirty years ago and continues to the present day.
In the work, the nostalgia of the past is replaced by ironic sound interpretations of the 1980s and 1990s, and in the collage atmosphere, questions inspired by absurd repetitions and sentimental interludes constantly arise: is this all a search for a "Lithuanian" character, or the everyday life of a human being and everyday life?
The piece uses video material from the LRT archive: 1989–1991. fragments of the programs "Veidrodis", "Akistata", "Vilnius and Vilnius", "Sekmadieni ryta".
Creative group: Karolis Kaupinis, Birutė Kapustinskaitė, Arnas Mikalkėnas, Kristupas Gikas, Kazimieras Jušinskas, Simonas Kaupinis, Goda Palekaitė, Julius Kuršys, Ervinas Gresevičius, Ignas Juzokas
Producer Operomania
Partners: LRT, Lithuanian Union of Interdisciplinary Art Creators
It is said that the creator solves one and the same conflict in his work: year after year, work after work, characters and themes change, but the fundamental conflict issue remains the same - maybe the nation does the same?
Playwright Birutė Kapustinskaitė
Analyzing thirty years of archival material, it turns out that time hardly affects the topics we talk about. When you talk a lot, words become inflated and lose their meaning. Maybe music can help you understand or at least feel their meaning.
Director Karolis Kaupinis
It was a balance between music as something that feeds on modernity and visual dramaturgy as something that digests history. A very interesting intersection of two genres.
Dovilė Zavedskaitė, menufaktura.lt
The creators of "Radvila Darius, Vytauto" skilfully combine compassion and (self) irony when talking about their/our nation and where we have (not) gone in the last three decades through archival conversations. Maybe that's why they manage to feel the unique national hope that allowed them to survive for centuries, to endure, straighten up and continue to live.
Goda Dapsytė, 370
In the original dialogue between the four musicians playing on the stage, which gives the images a special atmosphere, the voices of TV presenters and anonymous persons are heard, revealing a portrait of Lithuanian society between the tradition and the desire to break free from the past. Ironically, this collage looks beyond the borders of the Baltic country and questions how the so-called "national identity" is constructed here and elsewhere.
Véronique Hotte, webtheatre.fr
Duration: 60 minutes
Premiere: 2020 September 9, in the cultural complex "Garden 2123"
The work is in Lithuanian with English subtitles

When buying 10 or more tickets, you can contact: vipklientai@bilietai.lt

Doors open: ~18:00
Event duration: ~1:00
Breaks: None
Language of the event: Lithuanian
Children admitted for free: No
Age limit: N-10
Discounts:
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