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THE MOST EXCELLENT AND LAMENTABLE PLAN B Music, theatre and visual performance after the cartoons by Herluf Bidstrup (Lithuania)

“The Most Excellent and Lamentable PLAN B” is a performance where music and theatre, image and sound, higher school students and graduates, still unknown and already famous, artists of the young generation, who work in Lithuania and those who return from abroad for performances, act together. They all have built and inhabited the theatre “house” where everything is the same as in the world outside it, but everything is very different. It has its own laws, its own logic, the sky and hell, angels and little imps. As it is fit, the identity of the PLAN B is implemented by its language. Believe us, after the performance you are sure to say “Tchke!!!”.

The performance is based after cartoons of the Danish artist Herluf Bidstrup (1912– 1988). The idea to bring back from oblivion funny drawings that we saw in our childhood in the old book bound in green, appeared an attractive challenge to the new generation. Vidas Bareikis, the performance director and leader of the theatre movement “No Theatre” searched an improvisational key to very precise caricatures of everyday situations drawn by Bidstrup. The composer Rūta Vitkauskaitė created an audio picture for them performed live by a musicians’ ensemble and the actors. The play was given on 5 December 2013, marking the 80th anniversary of the founding of the Lithuanian Academy of Music and Theatre, at the Great Hall of the Lithuanian National Drama Theatre. Presented by the students of the director Oskaras Koršunovas’ class, it was the first serious test on a professional stage where the set designer Simona Biekšaitė constructed a live conceptual interdisciplinary space, while the costume designer Liuka Songailaitė gave every personage a completed graphic form.


Director: Vidas Bareikis
Composer: Rūta Vitkauskaitė
Set designer: Simona Biekšaitė
Costume designer: Liuka Songailaitė
Conductor: Ričardas Šumila
Music: leader Marija Grikevičiūtė
Lighting designer: Matas Šimonis
Sound director: Kastytis Narmontas
Producer: Lithuanian Academy of Music and Theatre
Partner: Lithuanian National Drama Theatre
Coproducer: OPEROMANIJA