BARBARAI. Rež. Árpád Schilling

BARBARAIBased on J.M. Coetzee's novel "Waiting for the Barbarians" Director: Árpád Schilling
Screenplay author: Árpád Schilling
Set designer and costume designer: Renata Valčik
Composer and lyricist: Martynas Bialobžeskis
Lighting artist: Eugenijus Sabaliauskas
Director assistant: Matas Makauskas
Translation of scripts from Hungarian: Asta Paulauskytė
Cast: Kristina Andrejauskaitė, Martynas Berulis, Ignas Ciplijauskas, Matas Dirginčius, Giedrė Giedraitytė, Sergejus Ivanovas, Rūta Jonikaitė, Ina Kartašova, Karolis Kasperavičius, Aleksas Kazanavičius, Viktorija Kuodytė, Valentinas Masalskis, Janina Matekonytė, Dalia Morozovaitė, Lukas Petrauskas, Aušra Pukelytė, Gintautė Rusteikaitė, Matas Sigliukas, Saulius Sipaitis, Gediminas Storpirštis, Dovilė Šilkaitytė, Vytautas Taukinaitis, Neringa Varnelytė Hungarian theater director Árpád Schilling's second production at the Youth Theater - based on the novel "Waiting for the Barbarians", a classic of modern literature, winner of the Nobel Literature Prize John Maxwell Coetzee. The novel, published in the 1980s, tells the story of an anonymous high civil servant of the Empire, the Judge, in the first person. The aging man seeks to live a quiet life and does not interfere in the politics of the Empire. He administers justice in a small frontier town founded on land taken from peaceful steppe nomads known as "barbarians" and indulges his secret passions for women and archaeological research in his spare time. But one day, the case of two "barbarians" - a father and his underage daughter - captured by soldiers falls into the hands of the Judge. The father is killed by soldiers in front of his daughter, and she is brutally tortured. Pity for the crippled girl turns into paternal care, awakening forgotten feelings. The novel seems to measure the limits of humanity and asks who are the real barbarians: are the local inhabitants of the steppes, nomadic farmers, fishermen and artisans mercilessly persecuted and tortured, or are ordinary townspeople themselves and the Imperial army protecting them indifferent to their suffering? Árpád Schilling states: In the novel Waiting for the Barbarians, as in many of his other books, J. M. Coetzee primarily writes about his experience in the Republic of South Africa, about the Western white empire and its relationship with the local black population of the country, about the colonial policies of the Western world in the Middle East, South America or North Africa. But today the Eastern Empire has risen to fight against the "barbarians", today they bomb houses and destroy people. But whether it's the West or the East, on every front line there's some border town where ordinary, God-fearing people go about their daily lives, thinking that the horrors of war will pass them by because they're decent, up-and-coming citizens. But nothing can be done. Unless the children. A town, a community of townspeople is at the center of events, when a conflict erupts between a bloodthirsty Empire bent on conquering barbarians and an individual who resists its cruelty - a typical intellectual. And who are the barbarians? I have two hypotheses: either barbarians don't exist at all and this whole conflict is just a sad joke laced with irony, or barbarians are all of us because we're all human. Premiere: 2023 February 25. More about the performance

ATTENTION. Spectators who are late are not allowed into the performance.
During the performance, special theatrical cigarettes without tobacco and nicotine are smoked.

Doors open: 1 a.m. until the start of the performance
Duration of the event: 3 hours 30 min.
Breaks: One 15 min. break
Children are not admitted for free.
Age restriction: Spectators are admitted to the performance from the age of 16.

Discounts: - 20 percent. discount for students, schoolchildren, seniors, disabled.
- 15 percent discount for groups of 10 or more - 30% discount for Pola members with code POLA30. The discount is valid for 2 tickets. During the inspection, you must present the discount card with the ticket.

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