Tom Stoppard „ROZENKRANCAS IR GILDENSTERNAS MIRĘ“ (Rež. Jurij Butusov)

Premiered in 2023 September 16, 17, 19

The performance is shown in Russian with Lithuanian subtitles

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The play "Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead" by Tom Stoppard - one of the most important modern theater playwrights, an apologist for the theater of the absurd and Guildenstern are Dead") was first performed in April 1967 in London at The Old Vic theater. At that time, T. Stoppard was a budding playwright and theater critic known to little. At the will of the playwright in the play, two humble characters of William Shakespeare's play "Hamlet", Rosencrantz and Guildenstern, or people who did not say "no" in time, became the heroes of modern dramaturgy and of our time.

The well-known classical plot of W. Shakespeare is skilfully played in the play: the Danish prince Hamlet's childhood and studies at the German university friends Rosencrantz and Guildenstern is summoned by King Claudius, the murderer of Hamlet's father, to accompany the prince to England. The king hands them a secret letter asking them to behead the rightful heir to the crown. Rosencrantz and Guildenstern accompany Hamlet to certain death, but after the prince successfully exchanges the letter, they fall into the traps of fate.

Researchers of modern dramaturgy emphasize that in the play "Rosencrantz and Guildenstern's Dead" wittily fuses classical Shakespearean dramaturgy and Beckett's literary experiments, the aesthetics of the absurd, and intellectual puzzles, virtuosic wordplay - with English irony. The dramatist tells the story of Hamlet from the perspective of two secondary characters of W. Shakespeare's play, Rosencrantz and Guildenstern, and made them the main ones. This creates an effect as if a video camera was left on somewhere behind the scenes during the creation of "Hamlet" - fragments of W. Shakespeare's texts sound in the background, Ophelia, Polonius and Hamlet himself appear and disappear, and T. Stoppard's characters try to understand what their real role is in this confusion. , in the Shakespearean era.

Director Yurijs Butusovs says that he especially appreciates these the poetics of the so-called classical play and the possibilities dictated by the classical stylistics of the absurd. "Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are dead" very aptly hits the context of today's pains and should remind the audience of the lost paradise, the impossibility of human perfection, harmony, and happiness. In the theater, the illusion in J. Butusov's performance will be revealed and strengthened by the laconic, unexpected materials and textures created by the play's artist Mariaus Nekrošius and the costumes. This play is staged in the Lithuanian theater for the first time.

Tomas Stoppard (b. 1937) is an English playwright, screenwriter. Since 1954 worked as a correspondent for Bristol newspapers, 1960 In London, he got a job on the radio, started creating radio and television plays, and wrote theater and film criticism articles in periodicals. 20th century In the 1970s, he became involved in the struggle for human rights - he visited the USSR, Czechoslovakia. The author continues the traditions of absurd dramaturgy, artistic expression of Sławomir Mrożek and Vaclav Havel. The work is characterized by paradoxical situations, experiments, analyticalness, unusual juxtapositions - academic philosophy is compared to gymnastics competitions. 1964-1965 wrote the play "Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead" - his most famous work. By the way, in 1990 T. Stoppardas himself directed a movie based on it, which has already become a classic.

Jurijus Butusovas (b. 1961) is one of the brightest figures in the contemporary theater scene. won many theater awards, created performances on the stages of Russia, Norway, Denmark, Bulgaria, and South Korea. Critics call him a director shaman, who knows fantastic or "dream" realism, his productions are distinguished by unpredictability, vitality, extremely sensitive theatrical language, and metaphoricality. The director's creative style began to take shape while still studying at the St. Petersburg Theater Institute. Already the first performances created during his studies - "Wedding" (1995), "Uzhrasai iš pogrinđios" (1996), "Waiting for Godot" (1996) - were innovative, welcomed as a radically new word in stage art. It is possible to single out the most important authors for the director, to name the creative vectors. These are W. Shakespeare, Anton Chekhov, Bertold Brecht. By the way, he is one of the first artists who condemned Russia's aggression against Ukraine. business delayed
An ear that should have heard us—
That all was done, that Rosencrantz
And Guildenstern died as bidden—
No longer sensitive. Who will give thanks?
(W. Shakespeare. "Hamlet" (translated by Alfonsas Nyka-Niliūnas)

ROS. And what are these times like?
ARTIST. Indifferent.
ARTIST.
What are you playing with?
With words. We can only endure them endlessly.
(T. Stoppard. "Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are dead"" (translated by Rita Gelombickaitė)

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