Albert Camus "KALIGULA" (rež. Jokūbas Brazys)

Attention! The performance includes a large sound, the bright flashes of light are used. The storyline is historic, but it would be very inaccurate to consider it a traditional historical drama. The writer at Caligula was most concerned with expressing the ideas of denying and claiming, absurd and rebellion, hope and faith. The Roman Emperor Caligula survives the death of her sister and the concubine Druzila. Confrontation with a loved one changes Caligula, and most of his own relationship with those around him, an attitude towards the Roman Empire. Caligula begins to raise strokes, "cloudy Roman peace." Not only does Caligula play, he begins to kill - deaths of endless hypocrites, ripens and innocent relatives. This is where Caligula, who is seemingly reminiscent of a seemingly performed killer, is a man who is experiencing an absurd experience, and these killings are a refined way to educate those around him. The play ends with the moral fall of Caligula and the double confession - its mistress Cessonia and itself. According to the philosopher Vincent Klipchi, metaphorically speaking, caligula is left in a marginal state of crazy on the pile of human bones-in a fully eradicated and death-like world. The hero's ambitious cold -bloodedness is still shocking today, forcing it to reflect on the relationship between power and the individual, and pays attention to today's context. The play remains relevant, talking about people's experiences and relationships with authority and moral dilemmas in the modern world. Caligula itself can be interpreted as a character that has grown an anxiety and dissatisfaction with the state of anxiety and dissatisfaction, and to purify the world by baptizing it by fire. Caligula here is a figure looking for a new path, radical change, with blood by purifying the old world. When both environmental problems and international conflicts are becoming increasingly fierce, Caligula invites you to think about how personal and political will can affect the fate of the world.

"The rebellion makes all experiences conscious," writes A. Camus. Caligula's beloved death awakens the superman, which rejects traditional moral norms and society structures by creating his own personal moral code. I am attracted to exploring existential fear, hopelessness and madness. The hell created by Caligula is the resistance to the inevitability. How do I maintain a balance between the falling world and the helpless man? I analyze the nature of existential fear. The death of Druzila has opened the Pandora's chest, and the burning hands are incapable of cluting it. Caligula is an ode to anxiety. ”(Jacob Brazys)

" Jonas Vaitkus, Ignas Jonynas, Agnius Jankevičius, Vidas Bareikis, Eimuntas Nekrošius-quite a few Lithuanians The director has built this drama, but as Jacob Brazys summarizes one sentence to the audience, "Camus is important to analyze at least every decade." (...) Now it is fashionable to create worlds, atmospheres. The Brazio atmosphere is very theatrical. As no one else knows how to create a theater in the theater very precisely and immerse the viewer into a dozen reflections, primarily related to the topic of the work under construction. This young director (...) was able to strike through Camus about Camus. ”(Daiva Šabasevičienė)

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Albert Camus (1913-1960)-French writer and philosopher, winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature, written in 1938. The play was not warmly met in its time, but in the German -occupied Paris, the novel "Alien" and the philosophical essay "Sisypho Myth", which appeared in World War II, allowed the whole to look at this text and thus Caligula struck all its meaning. A story of a narrative like this became the author's business card-A. Camus, who set out his philosophical thoughts in a philosophical essay, created a novel and a theater play that was distinguished and indisputable by philosophical exertion. : Jacob Brazys (born 1995) - Theater director, disciple of Oscar Koršunovas and Eimuntas Nekrošius, 2021. Graduated in directing studies at the Lithuanian Academy of Music and Theater. Created performances based on Moliere's play "Mizanthropist", William Shakespeare's Macbet, Anton Chekhov's Seagull, Peter Shaffer's Equus, Agota Kristof "Store Bloak". J. Brazys collaborated with festivals: Face Theater Festival in Budapest, Volta On Line in Vilnius, Theater Olympics 2019 in St. Petersburg. Worked as an assistant to director Oscar Koršunovas to build Rimantas Kmita's "Remyga" at the Šiauliai State Drama Theater and William Shakespeare's Okt/Vilnius City Theater.

and that terrible freedom is happiness?

Caligula

(Albert Camus. Caligula. Translated from French by Birutė Gedgaudaitė)

The performance is shown in Lithuanian with Russian subtitles

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