Izrāde ATGRIEŠANĀS / The Return
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Atgriešanās | The Return | Sugrįžimas
Lithuania, Klaipėdos dramos teatras
Inspired by Roberto Bolaño’s short story "The Return"
Director – Naubertas Jasinskas
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After performance discussion with the creative team!
"The Return" is a modern Gothic narrative about Michael and Claire, a young couple going through a divorce, and their improbable journey back to one another, one that disrupts the normal order of the world.
This work, which breaks social taboos, is what is described in the French literary tradition as a bizarrerie—a strangeness that disrupts the obviousness of our ordinary daily lives. The play is based on a Gothic motif of a world turned upside down, suggesting that on Judgment Day, the wronged will take revenge on their oppressors.
However, in the performance, the line separating justice and punishment from sacrilegious pleasure is ghostly faint and constantly being redrawn. Here, our existential anxiety, shameful desires, and past mistakes are thrust into a blindingly bright, electric light.
Language: Lithuanian (surtitles in Latvian and English)
Content warnings: The performance contains explicit language, smoke, bright flashes of light as well as nudity
Age recommendation: 16+
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Actors: Digna Kulionytė, Ieva Navickaitė, Samanta Pinaitytė, Justina Vanžodytė, Džiugas Grinys, Rimantas Pelakauskas
Playwright: Edgaras Gerasimovičius
Set designer: Tadas Černiauskas
Costume designer: Liucija Kvašytė
Choreographer: Ieva Navickaitė
Composer: Agnė Matulevičiūtė
Music director: Edvinas Vasiljevas
Video designer: Martynas Norvaišas
Light designer: Dainius Urbonis
Director’s assistant: Alius Veverskis
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About theatre: Klaipėda Drama Theatre has a long and vibrant history, that can be dated back to XVIII century. Situated in an oldest theatre building in contemporary Lithuania this theatre is known for daring productions and is praised for being on par with newest European theater trends, with performances created by lithuanian and foreign directors. Klaipėda Drama Theatre is also home of annual international theatre festival "TheATRIUM".
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Liepāja Theatre Festival "Theatre in Close-Up" is being organized within the framework of the program "Liepāja 2027", with the financial support of the Ministry of Culture, Liepāja City Municipality, and the municipalities of South Kurzeme and Kuldīga.
Lithuania, Klaipėdos dramos teatras
Inspired by Roberto Bolaño’s short story "The Return"
Director – Naubertas Jasinskas
──────────────────
After performance discussion with the creative team!
"The Return" is a modern Gothic narrative about Michael and Claire, a young couple going through a divorce, and their improbable journey back to one another, one that disrupts the normal order of the world.
This work, which breaks social taboos, is what is described in the French literary tradition as a bizarrerie—a strangeness that disrupts the obviousness of our ordinary daily lives. The play is based on a Gothic motif of a world turned upside down, suggesting that on Judgment Day, the wronged will take revenge on their oppressors.
However, in the performance, the line separating justice and punishment from sacrilegious pleasure is ghostly faint and constantly being redrawn. Here, our existential anxiety, shameful desires, and past mistakes are thrust into a blindingly bright, electric light.
Language: Lithuanian (surtitles in Latvian and English)
Content warnings: The performance contains explicit language, smoke, bright flashes of light as well as nudity
Age recommendation: 16+
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Actors: Digna Kulionytė, Ieva Navickaitė, Samanta Pinaitytė, Justina Vanžodytė, Džiugas Grinys, Rimantas Pelakauskas
Playwright: Edgaras Gerasimovičius
Set designer: Tadas Černiauskas
Costume designer: Liucija Kvašytė
Choreographer: Ieva Navickaitė
Composer: Agnė Matulevičiūtė
Music director: Edvinas Vasiljevas
Video designer: Martynas Norvaišas
Light designer: Dainius Urbonis
Director’s assistant: Alius Veverskis
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About theatre: Klaipėda Drama Theatre has a long and vibrant history, that can be dated back to XVIII century. Situated in an oldest theatre building in contemporary Lithuania this theatre is known for daring productions and is praised for being on par with newest European theater trends, with performances created by lithuanian and foreign directors. Klaipėda Drama Theatre is also home of annual international theatre festival "TheATRIUM".
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Liepāja Theatre Festival "Theatre in Close-Up" is being organized within the framework of the program "Liepāja 2027", with the financial support of the Ministry of Culture, Liepāja City Municipality, and the municipalities of South Kurzeme and Kuldīga.
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Teatra iela 4, Liepaja, Latvia
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