MEDIATHEK

Dramatist Marius von Mayenburg: While I’m writing a play, I never think if it’s modern or not. What distinguishes me from the older generation of dramatists is first of all the fact that the latter mainly deal with ideas and ideology in general. I think that new dramaturgy does not believe in ideology. That is why the mode of writing itself has changed: conflicts are represented, and the human body has become one of the key motifs.
I don’t aim to produce a shock effect. As a matter of fact, I am ruled by fear, whose reasons I’m trying to find out. In the process of searching for reasons I face violence, against which there is no medicine. As I ponder on the origins of aggression, I try to think about the worst possible outcome.

Director Oskaras Korsunovas: This play by Marius von Mayenburg enabled me to continue the search for the contemporary theatre idiom. An idiom articulating premonition, horror and neurotic moments of our civilization. Marius von Mayenburg enabled me to further explore the way of contemporary dramaturgy, the landmarks of which have been set by Sigitas Parulskis, Bernard-Marie Koltčs and Mark Ravenhill.

Set designer Jurate Paulekaite: I prefer not to comment on the motifs of choosing the material or what we find important in it and in what way we want to express it. Commentaries, instructions of reading a work only limit the field of interpretation for the spectator. Particularly in the case of this play. To explain that you are on nobody’s side, or in fact you probably are on somebody’s side… Even the statement that it’s nobody’s fault is already a dogma. This is not what I’d like.

Composer Gintaras Sodeika: Excerpts, parts, fragments, elements, adaptations, dramatizations – all these are forms with which we have been familiar until now… “Feuergesicht” is a “scanned” or “sampled” reality, and you can’t escape feeling part of it.

/ CAST & CREDITS /

AUTHOR: Marius von Mayenburg
DIRECTOR: Oskaras Koršunovas
SET DESIGNER: Juratė Paulekaitė
COMPOSER: Gintaras Sodeika

CAST:
FATHER - Remigijus Vilkaitis, Arvydas Dapšys
KURT - Gytis Ivanauskas
MOTHER - Dalia Brenciūtė
OLGA - Rasa Samuolytė
PAUL - Dainius Gavenonis

PREMIERE:
2000 April 27

This project is being realized together with Goethe institute (Vilnius) and Lithuanian National drama theatre.
The co-producer of the performance – Kleist Theatre, Frankfurt/Oder (Germany).

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