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Aušra Marija Sluckaitė
THE WHITE SHROUD
Dir. Jonas Jurašas
Number 87 is going down with the elevator: up and down. Wandering through his cracky memories: the interwar Kaunas, High Panemunė, Vilnius. The 87th poet, Antanas Garšva, having no opportunity to vow to his creative work and achieve immortality of his soul, is forced to carry out a Sisyphean-like lift operator’s work in the biggest hotel in New York. His fragmented consciousness is haunted by homesickness, and sometimes images of women whom he loved.
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06.19
18:00
The White Shroud
Didžioji scena
Description
This play is a dramatisation of the novel The White Shroud by exodus writer Antanas Škėma (1910-1961).
Number 87 takes down the elevator: up and down. He is wandering through his cracky memories in places of the interwar Kaunas, High Panemunė, and Vilnius. The 87th poet, Antanas Garšva, having no opportunity to vow to his creative work and achieve immortality of his soul, is forced to carry out a Sisyphean-like lift operator’s work in the biggest hotel in New York. His fragmented consciousness is haunted by homesickness, and sometimes images of women whom he loved. Garšva rejects love, ruptures human relationships, remains lonely in the cage of the elevator, but he still lives in the desire of hope fruition.
Mr. Garšva as a cog in a huge machine is recklessly looking for self-actualisation. He discards all his illusions and keeps his poetry to himself. However, a creative giddiness and desperate efforts to discover the truth bring suffering.
OPENING – October 12 – 13, and 17, 2012
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Awards
2013
Golden Cross of the Stage Award (Lith. Auksinis scenos kryžiūs)
2013
Fortune Award (Lith. Fortūnos prizas)
Gallery
Open gallery
Crew
Jonas Jurašas
Director
Dainius Svobonas
Antanas Garšva
Vilija Grigaitytė
Mother
Eglė Mikulionytė
Ellen
Kęstutis Povilaitis
Father
Inga Mikutavičiūtė
Jonė, Garšva's first love
Goda Petkutė
Jonė, Garšva's first love
Liubomiras Laucevičius
Doctor Ignas
Mindaugas Jankauskas
Joe the Elevator Operator
Egidijus Stancikas
The Brown Man
Saulius Čiučelis
Edgaras Poe
Eugenija Bendoriūtė
Old lady
Henrikas Savickis
Puerto Rican
Arūnas Stanionis
Elena’s Husband, Ezra Pound
Sigitas Šidlauskas
Lift operator Stanley
Tomas Erbrėderis
Elena's husband, Ezra Pound
Ugnė Žirgulė
Virginija Woolf, Ženia
Artūras Sužiedėlis
Boxer, Man with a chinchilla
Composer
Linas Rimša
Set designer
Gintaras Makarevičius
Costume designer
Jolanta Rimkutė
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