OKT / Vilniaus miesto teatras: "Pamišėlis" (rež. Oskaras Koršunovas)

Nikolai Gogol
A MADMAN
Oskar Korshunovas
How can an ordinary employee, seemingly even an inconspicuous person, suddenly become a destructive, dangerous force for society? The answer is at the premiere of director Oskar Korshunov's play "The Madman" based on Nikolai Gogol's work. Having experienced the world premiere in the place where the performance was shown and created - in the Catalonia region of Spain, rocked by political upheavals, the artists return to Lithuania, where the fascism of normality takes hold and the local crazies start to rage.
According to the director, N. Gogol, a Ukrainian classicist who lived in the 19th century, now seems to be an accurate and competent political commentator of today, analyzing the situation both in Lithuania and throughout Europe.
"This is a prophetic short story about the nature of fascism, related to the desire to transform the world and the obsession with greatness. This happened with the great dictators of the 20th century. Now the whole world is clearly becoming puritanical, everything is regulated, even the presumption of innocence is no longer valid, as if the time is coming again in Western civilization when you want to "cleanse yourself". There were quite a few such historical periods. It would be enough to remind Sparta, the Inquisition, fascism, well, we still remember Soviet "justice". You don't have to look far for examples. Let's say that in Lithuania, two years of imprisonment is threatened for the "grass" swindler, or it is even proposed to introduce forced treatment in a psychiatric hospital. Books are disposed of, magazines are ripped off, classics are censored, and anonymous complaint lines are created. And all this in the name of justice and normality", says O. Koršunovas.
"The relevance of N. Gogol's prophecies and texts today is simply incredible. If in the 19th century, when the work was written, the idea that France would become a Muslim country might have seemed like complete madness, today it no longer seems so. The great inquisitor predicted by N. Gogol has obviously already arrived. And this is the Internet, social networks, in which we control each other in one way or another, as well as developing technologies that already recognize our needs and their faster realization. They will already offer us punishments in the future. Facebook's message can have a stronger moral effect than the legal institutions. Basically, the Internet, which has offered us knowledge and freedom, is a kind of straitjacket," continues O.
"And sometimes you don't even need to interpret - just read and understand. Doesn't this text by N. Gogol sound relevant now in Lithuania: "After all, there are so many examples in history: someone is simple, not that he is a noble, but some kind of townsman or even a peasant - and suddenly it turns out that he is some kind of great, and the next time even a ruler. If it comes out like this from a man, then what can come out of a nobleman?", concludes O. Koršunovas.
Scenography
random heroes

Costume designer
Juozas Valenta

Music
Dominykas Digimas

Video projections
Kornelijs Jarosevicius

Plays
Eimantas Pakalka

Light artist
Mindaugas Repšys

The premiere
February 11, 2018
Warning! A stroboscope is used during the performance.

Spectators who are late are not allowed into the hall. When buying 10 or more tickets, you can contact: vipklientai@bilietai.lt

Doors open: 30 min. before the event
Event duration: ~1:00
Breaks: None
Language of the event: Lithuanian
Children admitted for free: no
Age limit: N-16
Discounts: - 15% for persons with disabilities for 1 ticket (present a document proving the discount during the control) - 15% for seniors 1 ticket (present a document proving the discount during the control) - 15% for students 1 ticket (present a document proving the discount during the control) - 15% for POLA members for 1 ticket (present a document proving the discount during the control)

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