OKT > Performances > ROMEO AND JULIET

2010-09-25 19.00 H

Address	Festival ACADEMIA, Omsk, Russia
Duration	3 H 00 MIN

2010-10-14 19.00 H

Address	Teatro arena (Olimpiečių g. 3, Vilnius)
Duration	3 H 00 MIN
Price	30-50
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2010-11-16 19.00 H

Address	“Boreales” festival, Caen, France
Duration	3 H 00 MIN

2010-11-17 19.00 H

Address	“Boreales” festival, Caen, France
Duration	3 H 00 MIN

2010-12-22 19.00 H

Address	Teatro arena (Olimpiečių g. 3, Vilnius)
Duration	3 H 00 MIN
Price	30-60
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2010-12-23 19.00 H

Address	Teatro arena (Olimpiečių g. 3, Vilnius)
Duration	3 H 00 MIN
Price	30-50
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DIRECTOR - Oskaras Korsunovas

SET DESIGNER - Jurate Paulekaite

COSTUME DESIGNER - Jolanta Rimkute

LIGHT DESIGNER - Eugenijus Sabaliauskas

COMPOSER - Antanas Jasenka

CONSULTANT - Leonidas Donskis

A C T I N G :

BENVOLIO - Tomas Zaibus, Saulius Mykolaitis

CAPULET - Vaidotas Martinaitis

FRIAR LAURENCE - Remigijus Vilkaitis, Arvydas Dapsys

JULIET - Rasa Samuolyte, Rasa Marazaite

LADY CAPULET - Dalia Micheleviciute

LADY MONTAGUE - Vesta Grabstaite

MERCUTIO - Dainius Kazlauskas

MONTAGUE - Remigijus Bilinskas

NURSE - Egle Mikulionyte

PARIS - Dainius Gavenonis

PETER - Rytis Saladzius

PRINCE ESCALUS, APOTHECARY - Arunas Sakalauskas

ROMEO, BALTHASAR - Giedrius Savickas, Gytis Ivanauskas

TYBALT - Darius Gumauskas

Co-producers:

THEOREM Association supported by the
Culture 2000 programme of the European Union;

HEBBEL Theatre, Berlin, Germany;

AVIGNON Festival, France;

NEW HAVEN International Festival of Arts&Ideas, USA;

Lithuanian Culture and Sport Supporting Foundation;

Lithuanian Ministry of Culture.

Shakespeare’s Romeo and Juliet is usually understood as a celebration of romantic love. It is, really, an instance of social drama. In dramatic circumstances, an ordinary love becomes invested with tragic power of the highest order. What interests me most in this tragedy is how love can come forward and thrive in an atmosphere of hatred or war, as in Verona.
Love is born out of hatred, as a way to overcome hatred. Hatred in its turn is due to the evil of Nothing. The example of Montague and Capulet is eloquent, since no one knows the reason for their enmity. It has been forgotten long ago. Young Tybalt embraces hatred, and defends it as tradition. We often nurture traditions that create conflict out of alleged differences, and thereby keep hatred alive. This, alas, is a principle applied more and more often – to strengthen a community by looking for external enemies.
In this production, I wanted to analyze how hatred shapes difference and becomes common ground. I feel that hatred is the foundation on which the differences between Montague and Capulet are built. This is deceptive, and pulls them ever further apart. All societies seem to be sub-divided in this way.
Love negates difference. Only love can show that there is essentially no conflict between the two clans. Love creates freedom, and in freedom there are no oppositions. Sadly, Romeo and Juliet find their freedom only in death. They were both single children. When they die, their families die with them. The sacrifice of freedom ruins not only the modernity created by these children, but also the tradition their parents seek to protect.

Oskaras Korsunovas