Estijos „Südalinna“ teatro gastrolės Marius Ivaškevičius „Dievų aušra“

Estonian director Elmo Nüganen staged the play "Dawn of the Gods" by the world-famous Lithuanian playwright Marius Ivaškevičius in the "Südalinna" theater (Tallinn). The performance is shown in two compositions - with Russian and Estonian actors. The premiere of the play took place in 2025. May 30 In the Great Hall of the Südalinna Theater in Russian.

E. Nüganen's production received the highest praise from critics. By the way, even before the prime minister, M. Ivaškevičius's play about the fate and love of women against the backdrop of war was recognized as one of the best in Europe, as well as the best in 2024, at the EURODRAM international competition. in a play translated into German.

The large-scale war against Ukraine caught the Lithuanian director Mantas Kvedaravičius in East Africa, in Uganda. There he filmed his new feature film, which also starred his beloved Anna, who is from Ukraine. Mantas wanted to turn a new page in life - to quit his current job as a documentary filmmaker in war zones around the world and start a normal life: marry Anna and have children. This was supposed to be their new life, but the war prevented it.

When the Russian army approached Mariupol, Mantas realized that he would no longer be able to live like an ordinary person: he knew those people in Mariupol, he was making a film about them. And when the city was under siege, he went there to finish the film. Anna went with him. He managed to work, film for several weeks, and then fell into the hands of the Russian army and was killed. Ana did not know this, she searched for the missing man in the war-torn city, where bullets flew and bombs fell on both sides of the front line, until finally the place of his death was shown.

She managed to secretly escape with all the documentary material, take the man's body and reach Lithuania. Later, the film was set in Paris and called "Mariupolis 2". Its author was posthumously awarded the European Film Award for the best documentary film.

"I didn't have a play that I wanted to stage. Marius Ivaškevičius, when he found out about it, said he had one. And here we are working to make the public talk about these topics, so that they don't forget, so that we don't sweep everything under the carpet, so that we don't get "tired". What could we ever get tired of? We live in peace. Another thing is the people at the front. And what right do we have to be tired? It looks stupid and arrogant. This is idiocy. I think now is the time to talk about it". (Elmo Nüganen).

Marius Ivaškevičius is a Lithuanian writer, playwright, director, and author of documentary films. His plays are widely staged in theaters around the world. The most famous plays are: "Malyš", "Close Town", "Madagascar", "The Expulsion: The Chronicle of One Apple", "The Master", "Kant", "The Great Evil", "The Sleepers". The play "Russian novel" in 2019 also staged in Vilnius Old Theater (dir. O. Koršunovas), and the sketch of the play "Dawn of the Gods" was staged in 2022 (dir. V. Gurfinkelis). Wrote a collection of short stories "For Whom the Children", novels "History from the Cloud", "Green", "Tom Moore", "The Expulsion: The London Needle". He was awarded the Literature Prize of the Institute of Lithuanian Literature and Folklore (2005), the Order "For Services to Lithuania" (2014), the Golden Cross of the Stage (2015), the Gabrielė Petkevičaitė-Bitė Memorial Medal (2017), the Lithuanian National Prize (2018).

Elmo Nüganen is an Estonian theater actor, director. Since 1992, the chief director of the Tallinn City Theatre. More important performances: W. Shakespeare's "Romeo and Juliet" (1992) and "Hamlet" (1999), A. Dumas "The Three Musketeers" (1995) and "The Three Musketeers. Twenty Years Later" (2001), A. Chekhov's "The Piano, or the Mechanical Piano" (1995), F. Dostoevsky's "Crime and Punishment" (1999), "Marriage" by W. Gombrowicz (2004), "Truth and Justice. Part Two" by A.H. Tammsaare (2005) and "Karin. Indrek. Truth and Justice. Part Four" (2006). Directed feature films: "Names in marble / Nimed marmortahvlil" (2002), "1944" (2015). He has received awards for his work both in Estonia and abroad.

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