VMT SPEKTAKLIS | KAIP JUMS PATINKA

“The whole world is a stage, / Its actors are both women and men; / Their entrances here and their exits, / And many roles are played by one / In this play of seven acts.” Few people know that these many-heard lines of W. Shakespeare belong to the melancholy traveler Jacques, one of the characters of the play As You Like It. A tragicomedy about Rosalind hiding in the forest from the persecution of her noble relatives in the 16th and 17th centuries. offered a completely new concept of love at the junction: W. Shakespeare opposes the view of love as a source of suffering formed by literature at that time with the concept of love as the greatest pleasure.

Born during the State Vilnius Small Theater Festival "DramaFest", the play "As You Like It" explores the themes of love, physicality, gender bending and sexuality, revolution. "When our generation of millennials is accused of sexualizing everything and trying to address questions of identity only through the prism of sexuality, I think the best answer to that accusation is that it seems like the world has lost a whole generation of people who used to be able to talk about it. I don't understand the idea that people's spiritual problems are bigger than the challenges of human identity. But after all, spiritual problems arise for a person who has one or another identity. A person constantly rethinks himself and his place in society - if this is not an ontological problem of being, then I don't know what those problems are", says Uršulė Bartoševičiūtė, one of the most prominent directors of the feminist trend in Lithuanian theatre.

W. Shakespeare' and "As You Like It" is characterized by special fragmentation, great dynamics of changing spaces. The performance creates an impression of the intense, bustling life rhythm of a megalopolis. The creative group sets itself the task of adapting and playing with W. Shakespeare's themes, changing the perspective to inert thought processes: does the stolen power restored by blood restore the divine order, or does it only deepen the culture of force reformation? Can the fugitive Jester, a slave to no one, shed the mechanisms of coercion and exist independent of another? How do you heal from the wounds of love and are these wounds really as universal as they are commonly thought? What is a declaration of love, its carving in the bark of trees - the great, true expression of love or a graphomaniac manifestation of the ego?

The director's work is characterized by the theater that maneuvers on the border between kitsch, absurdity and camp, and is based on fantasy and ingenuity. key that emphasizes the fragmentedness of the world.

Under the guise of W. Shakespeare's ornate poetic texts, Renaissance costumes, an eclectic mix of Renaissance and contemporary music, "As You Like It" offers absurdity and fantasy as the only way out of inert fables .

This production of W. Shakespeare's play "As You Like It" is a radical adaptation, when the director does not serve the play, but it becomes the material for creativity and self-expression. Out of almost 30 characters, only 6 actors remain, and when adapting the play, U. Bartoševičiūtė borrows texts from various characters and pastes them. Because this kind of adaptation is purified more through the thematic perspective than through the perspective of character consistency.

According to the director, the play is actually about love and all its forms.

After all, love also works as an addiction. , and as a mechanism of control, love works in both violent and poetic ways, love is both romantic, and the love of a friend, sister, love for someone just like you - as a process of identification, unification. And when you say that the play is about love, it seems that it is extremely banal.

Dir. Uršulė Bartoševičiūtė

William Shakespeare

HOW YOU LIKE IT

(N-16)

Director and author of the adaptation - Uršulė Bartoševičiūtė

Translator of the play - Tautvyda Marcinkevičiūtė

Set designer - Ieva Rojūtė

Composer - Marija Paškevičiūtė

Costume designer - Liucija Kvašytė

Video artist - Kristijonas Dirsė

Lighting artist - Julius Kuršys

Plays:

Rozalinda / Ganymede - Milda Noreikaitė

p>Orlandus - Karolis Kasperavičius

Old Duke - Edmundas Mikulskis

Selia - Indrė Patkauskaitė

New Duke Frederikas - Arvydas Dapšys

Joker - Agnė Šataitė

PREMIERE 2022 March 10 and the 13th

Tragic-comedy of II parts (duration 2 hours 50 minutes)

Attention! Spectators who are late are not allowed into the hall. Please consider the arrival time at the theater responsibly and do not be late.

Warning: N-16. During the performance, uncensored vocabulary, shocking images, and tobacco products are used.

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