Cancelled! “THE BALD SOPRANO” / PREMIERE

2020 March 13, Friady, 19:00

LMTA Building 5: Room 5005 (Kosciuškos 12, Vilnius)

CANCELLED

Festival “LMTA Theatre Days 2020”

PERFORFANCE “THE BALD SOPRANO” / PREMIERE

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.

Limited seating available. Priority tickets (“Balkono žetonai”/“Balcony chips”) will be distributed 30 min before the beginning of the of the play at the location of the event.