The Bald Soprano
13 March, 2020, Friday at 7 PM
LMTA Sluškai Campus, Room 5005
Performance “The Bald Soprano”
Performed in Lithuanian
Author: Eugène‘o Ionesco
Director: Gintaras Varnas
Cast: Joris Zaliauskas, Irena Sikorskytė, Rokas Pijus Misiūnas, Anastasija Marčenkaitė, Vaidilė Juozaitytė, Martynas Berulis, Martynas Baranauskas, Inga Juškevičiūtė, Kasparas Varanavičius, Urtė Povilauskaitė, Žiedūnė Dubnikovaitė, Lukas Dirsė, Justinas Vinciūnas
Set and Costume Design: Viktorija Venckutė
Eugène Ionesco’s “The Bald Soprano” (1954) emerges as a reproach to all that was considered as theater and discussion. The idea for this play was born when Ionesco, wishing to learn English, employed an increasingly popular and novel method of bilingual conversation books. The new form of communication and reality suggested by “The Bald Soprano” was an admonition to Theater as an institution: on 16 February, 1957 the play was re-introduced together with “The Lesson” at La Huchette theater in Paris. These pieces were forced to dismiss other performances in this theater and have been shown to this day. “The Bald Soprano” does not have a plot and this absence creates a rising suspense. This anti-play was the beginning of what was later called Theater of the Absurd.
Premiere date and place: 13 March, 2020 at LMTA Sluškai Campus
Duration: 60 min
Reflective discussion after the event.