BELAUKIANT GODO. Rež. Gintaras Varnas | Atsisveikinimas su spektakliu

2024 November 8 the performance will be shown for the last time.

Director: Gintaras Varnas
Costume designer: Julija Skuratova
Scenographer: Gintaras Varnas
Composer: Dominykas Digimas

The play "Waiting for Godot" was written shortly after World War II (1952), when the whole of Europe experienced a physical, moral and existential collapse. The play lacks the usual elements of classical dramaturgy: plot, conflict, even clear action. "Nothing is happening, nothing is coming, nothing is leaving, it's scary." – the classic phrase of the play describes its essence. This strange tragicomedy became the emblem of a new theater trend called the Theater of the Absurd, and its author S. Beckett gained world fame, the Nobel Prize for literature, and "Waiting for Godot" conquered the stages of theaters around the world. It seems to be the most famous text created for the theater in the 20th century. Why did the play in which "nothing happens" become such a bestseller?

Director Gintaras Varnas says that although Beckett wrote a play about old people, in the play, on the contrary, he plays a very young actors. Young people whose whole lives are in the future. In today's future. It seems that the same text can talk not only about the end of life, but also about its beginning and the fear of living. Today, when the world seems scary, fragile and about to explode. No, this is not a play about action, struggle, it is not about Ukraine, rather about our West, which is WAITING... WAITING... WAITING...

Premiere: 2022 April 7.

More about the performance

The play "Waiting for Godot" was written shortly after World War II (1952), when the whole of Europe experienced a physical, moral and existential collapse. The play lacks the usual elements of classical dramaturgy: plot, conflict, even clear action. "Nothing is happening, nothing is coming, nothing is leaving, it's scary." – the classic phrase of the play describes its essence. This strange tragicomedy became the emblem of a new theater trend called the Theater of the Absurd, and its author S. Beckett gained world fame, the Nobel Prize for literature, and "Waiting for Godot" conquered the stages of theaters around the world. It seems to be the most famous text created for the theater in the 20th century. Why did the play in which "nothing happens" become such a bestseller?

Director Gintaras Varnas says that although Beckett wrote a play about old people, the play, on the contrary, features very young actors. Young people whose whole lives are in the future. In today's future. It seems that the same text can talk not only about the end of life, but also about its beginning and the fear of living. Today, when the world seems scary, fragile and about to explode. No, this is not a play about action, struggle, it is not about Ukraine, rather about our West, which is WAITING... WAITING... WAITING...

Premiere: 2022 m. April 7.

More about the performance

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