GELEŽIS IR SIDABRAS || Poezijos spektaklis | Rež. R. Kazlas

A one-part drama for adults based on the lines of the poet and translator Vladas Šimkaus

"I always thought that I didn't like poetry, I didn't understand it," says actor Rolandas Kazlas, "I preferred prose , philosophers, dramatists, and I used to look at poets and verses with disbelief. However, I was really waiting and looking for poetry close to me. She should probably be sought as Love, as a beloved, and the poet as a soul brother. The same and at the same time a different self: more sensitive, more open, more delicate, loving and strangely radiant. When I discovered the poetry of Vladas Šimkus, I discovered what I was waiting for and secretly longed for."

Poet, translator, editor Vladas Šimkus, who was born in the Kelmė district and spent most of his life in Vilnius since his studies at Vilnius University remained one of the most enigmatic fates in Lithuanian literature. Having started to publish his work while still at school, at the age of 24 he published his first book of poetry, "Gražiausia sekundė", and a few years later he published a collection of poems, "Kranto kontortai" (1963). And the 1968 book of poetry "Iron and Silver" became an event not only in the biography of the poet himself, but also in Lithuanian poetry. As well as the poet's fourth independent collection "Bites pagėžėlės" (1973), which surprised colleagues and literary critics with a radical turn to ironic speaking, a painfully sober debunking of many entrenched cultural myths. This collection by Vlad Šimkaus was his last original book (in 1982, the collection "Nusileisk, dangau an zemeše" was published). V. Šimkus almost inexplicably moved from the leading positions of Lithuanian poetry of that time, occupied by the best collection "Iron and Silver" (1968) subtext, into silence, stopped writing poems. Only the translator, a high-ranking professional, and the same select editor remained. "The poet worked in the editorial offices of "Jaunimos greta", "Literature ir meno", "Švyturios", "Pergalė", "Metė", translated by A. Mickevičius, A. Voznesenskis, A. Puškin, B. Brecht, S. Vereš, A. He translated the works of Čak, H. Heinė, F. Garsia Lorka, F. Šileris, J.V. Gėtė and other poets into plays, musicals, operas for Lithuanian theaters and operetta librettos, but he no longer wrote original poetry.

According to V. Daujotytė, Vladas Šimkus received rare attention from his poet friends and from critics who sensed the extent of his talent, but "he was interviewed, asked why he no longer writes, why is he silent, he answered simply: "I'm not quite silent, I'm worth a lot, after all, it's also a work of art. Or: I'm tired of writing the way I used to write, and I don't know how else to do it... Sometimes with painful irony: I felt that I had no talent... Talented people write easily, and I struggle so much, I even count..."

However, the poetry of Vladas Šimkaus, remaining in the four collections, its images and the image of the person who created that poetry is that ephemeral "matter" that attracts, talks and (good luck case), shaping the perceiver, overcame the time gap of several decades and became the impetus and content of the performance, which Rolandas Kazlas invites you to today. As the author of the play "Iron and Silver" says, it should be "an open conversation with yourself and the audience about the choice. And at the same time - an invitation. Among collapsed daggers, heaps of iron, cold concrete, gray everyday life and accounting-calculated household, search for, discover and feel the mysterious, weak light of silver. Fight for those rare silver minutes. Sometimes you fight by going to the subtext, to the silence..."

Author, director and actor of the staging - Rolandas KAZLAS

Artist - Neringa KERŠULYTĖ

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Doors open: 30 min. until the start of the event
Duration of the event: 90 min.
Intermissions: none
Language of the event: Lithuanian
Children admitted for free: no

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