PRANAŠYSTĖ. Rež. Justinas Vinciūnas

Peter Handke
Director: Justinas Vinciūnas
Composer: Andrius Kairys
Assistant director: Lukas Petrauskas
Set designer and costume designer: Paulina Turauskaitė
Starring: Algirdas Latenas, Vidas Petkevičius, Saulius Sipaitis, Gediminas Storpiristis
Peter Handke - Austrian writer, 2019 awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature for "an influential work that explores the periphery and singularity of human experience with linguistic ingenuity." The main themes of the author's work are the reality surrounding a person, the search for the boundaries of language and subjective truth. "Prophecy" was created in the early period of the writer's creativity, when the author was only twenty-two years old. This work, like the other 1964-1966 written plays, the author classified them as so-called language plays. The play has no action, plot lines, scenography: all attention is focused on the word.
In the beginning there was a word - phonetics and rhythm were the first elements that caught the attention of the youngest generation director Justinus Vinciūnas. He was looking for ways to convey this text as music, to compose its rhythmic score. Finally, the question arose: where is man?
Together with the director, the oldest generation of theater actors are looking for an answer to this question on stage: Algirdas Latėnas, Vidas Petkevičius, Saulius Sipaitis, Gediminas Storpiristis - the real greats of the theater scene, the generation that seems to be retiring from active life. According to the director, the experience of these actors becomes a counterpoint to the formalistic style of the play. On their lips, the prophecy sounds both like a biblical metaphor and like an absurd, self-ironic ode to everyday life. The four readers A, B, C and D mentioned in the play take the form of homeless people in the play. All of them have renounced tangible forms of property - observers who have risen above everyday life.
In the performance, Handke's text intertwines with the actors' authentic observations, life situations, and this speaks of the search for a person's place and identity in the face of an absurd reality. Handke's work offers the possibility of a reality beyond words. The very act of reading also saves us from the game of forms: the reader encounters a mysterious form whose meaning he does not know, but only by articulating it can he try to discover the content. In this way, by resisting the inner knowledge or its impression, we enter the invisible reality of the text. It is a reality that arose before concepts. Therefore, "Prophecy" can resonate with those who are accompanied by a feeling of uncertainty of reality. Although this play is small, it is still a consolation, telling about the truth hiding somewhere beyond, says director Justinas Vinciūnas.

Premiere: 2024 October 29
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ATTENTION. Spectators who are late are not allowed into the performance.
Doors open: 30 min. until the start of the performance Duration of the event: 1 hour
Breaks: None
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- 10 percent discount for students, schoolchildren, seniors, disabled
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