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

Premiere 2023 September 16, 17, 19.

The performance is shown in Russian with Lithuanian subtitles
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Rosenkranc and Gildenstern, one of the most important contemporary theater playwrights, Apologist of the Absurd Theater, "RosenCrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead) was first played in London, The Old Vic theater in April 1967. Then Stoppard was little known by a beginner playwright, a theater critic. In the playwright's will, two modest William Shakespeare's play "Hamlet" characters Rozenkranc and Gildenstern, or people who did not say no on time, became heroes of modern dramaturgy and our time.
The well -known classic W. Shakespeare's storyline in the play is masterfully played by: Prince Hamlet's Childhood and Studies at German University, Rosenkranc and Gildensn Hamlet's father, King Claudius invite him to escort the prince to England. The king gives them a secret letter asking them to put his head to the legitimate heir to the crown. Rosenkranc and Gildenstern accompany Hamlet into a definite death, but the prince successfully binds the letter to the trap of destiny.

Contemporary dramaturgy researchers emphasize that the play "Rosenkranc and Gildenstern are dead" is wittyly fused by classic Shakespearean dramaturgy and budding literary experiments, aesthetics of absurdity, and intellectual puzzles, virtuosic play of words with English irony. Hamlet's story is told by the playwright from the two secondary players, Rosenkranco and Gildensno, of W. Shakespeare's play, turned them into major. The effect this created, as if creating a Hamlet somewhere behind the scenes, was left on a video camera - the background of the texts of W. Shakespeare's texts sounds, the Opalia, Polonius and Hamlet himself disappear, and T. Stoppard's characters are trying to understand what their true role is in this confusion.

Director Yuriy Butusov says he especially appreciates the possibilities of this already classic poetry of the so -called play and the opportunities dictated by the classical absurdity. "Rosenkranc and Gildenstern dead" are very aptly hitting today's context, pain and should remind viewers the lost impossibility of paradise, human fullness, harmony, happiness. The illusion of J. Butusov will reveal and strengthen the laconic, unexpected materials and textures at the theater theater, the scenography and costumes created by the artist Marius Nekrošius. This play is built for the first time in the Lithuanian Theater.

Tom Stoppard (born 1937) - English playwright, screenwriter. Since 1954 worked as a correspondent of Bristol newspapers, 1960. In London, he was employed on the radio, started creating radio and television plays, and wrote theater and film criticism in the periodical press. In the 20th century. In the 1970s, he became involved in the fight for human rights - visiting USSR, Czechoslovakia. The author continues the traditions of the artistic expression of absurd dramaturgy, Sławomir Mrożek, Vaclav Havel. Creativity is characterized by paradoxical situations, experiments, analytics, unusual comparisons - academic philosophy equates to gymnastics. 1964-1965. The written play "Rosenkranc and Gildenstern are dead" is his most famous work. By the way, in 1990 T. Stoppard himself directed the film that had already become a classic movie. Yuri Butusov (b. 1961) is one of the most prominent figures in the modern theater landscape, winning a lot of theater awards, producing performances in the scenes of Russia, Norway, Denmark, Bulgaria, South Korea. Critics call him director Shaman, who is aware of fantastic or "dream" realism, productions are distinguished by unpredictability, vitality, extremely sensitive theatrical language, metaphoric. The creative drawing of the director began to form while studying at the St. Petersburg Institute of the Theater. Already in the first year of studies, performances - "Marriage" (1995), "Inscriptions from the Underground" (1996), "Waiting for Godo" (1996) - were innovative, met as a radically new word in stage art. It is also possible to distinguish the director's most important authors and to name creative vectors. These are W. Shakespeare, Anton Chekhov, Bertold Brecht. By the way, he is one of the first artists who condemned Russian aggression against Ukraine.

The first messenger
Crushing that image!
And we got caught up with things
Ears, had to listen to us -
That everything is done that rosenkranc
And Gildenstern died as it was told -
No longer. Who thanks?
(W. Shakespeare. Hamlet (translated by Alfonsas Nyka-Niliūnas)
Ros. And what are these times?
Artist. Indifferent.
Ros. Bad?
Artist. Defective.
(...)
Ros. What do you play here?
Gil. In words, words. Only in their infinitely, we are elaborate.
(T. Stoppard. "Rosenkranc and Gildenstern Dead" (translated by Rita Gelombickaite)

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