Spektaklis "BUDA PALĖPĖJE" (Solo teatras)

"BUDA IN THE ATTIC"

(play based on the novel by the Japanese writer Julie Otsuka)

The novel "Buddha in the Attic" by the Japanese-American writer J. Otsuka (published in Lithuanian a few years ago) is based on real stories from the 20th century. the life stories of the Japanese emigrants who went to Tokyo at the beginning: after the First World War, Japanese men sailed to San Francisco to look for work - later some of them returned to Japan after earning, others stayed in America and started to start families. They sent a photo (not necessarily real) to Japan and waited for the bride who chose her future husband from the photo. The author follows in the footsteps of "photo brides" - she travels with them on a grueling boat trip to America, observes the first meeting with her future husband, the collapse of dreams of a magical life in America. The daily rituals last until the fateful morning of Pearl Harbor, after which the Japanese in America were en masse evicted from their homes, taken away and buried - simply disappeared like a fog, as if they had never existed.

The performance is based on the principle of traditional Japanese theater, where the story is told by combining dance, movement, text and live music on stage. This is how a unique stage language of signs is created (the director and performer of the performance, Birutė Mar, studied traditional Japanese theater and dance in Tokyo), which tells the story of one's roots, the connection with the past and ancestors in the era of mixing of the nations of the world, about the nation's identity as strength and a way to survive.

Script author, director – Birutė Mar

Choreographer, assistant director - Sigita Mikalauskaitė

Music created and selected - Antanas Kučinskas

Artist - Indrė Pacėsaitė

Video artist - Karolis Bratkauskas

Lights artist - Audrius Jankauskas

Actress - Birutė Mar

Music performed - Egidijus Ališauskas (percussion, gongs, flute, etc. )

From English translated by Emilija Ferdmanaitė

Duration 1 hour

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