Rūta Vitkauskaitė

Programme Note
The Most Excellent and Lamentable PLAN B is a performance that brings together music and theatre, images and sound, high school students and graduates, artists of the young generation who work in Lithuania and those who return from abroad for performances, some of whom are still unknown and others who are already famous. They have all built and inhabited the theatre “house” where everything appears to be the same as in the outside world, yet everything is very different. It has its own laws, its own logic, its own sky and hell, its own angels and little imps. As it should, the identity of PLAN B is reinforced by its own language. Trust me, after the performance, you will be sure to say “Tchke!!!”

The performance is based on the cartoons of the Danish artist Herluf Bidstrup (1912-1988). The idea of bringing back from oblivion the funny drawings that we saw in our childhood in the old green-bound book was an attractive challenge for the new generation. Vidas Bareikis, the performance director and leader of the theatre movement “No Theatre,” sought an improvisational key to the caricatures accurately depicting everyday situations, drawn by Bidstrup. I created an audio drawing for them, which is performed live by a musicians’ ensemble and the actors. The play was first showcased on December 5, 2013, marking the 80th anniversary of the founding of the Lithuanian Academy of Music and Theatre, on the main stage of the Lithuanian National Drama Theatre. It was presented by students, whose class was led by theatre director Oskaras Koršunovas, and it was their first serious test on a professional stage. The set designer Simona Biekšaitė constructed a conceptual live space for an interdisciplinary performance, while the costume designer Liuka Songailaitė gave every character a finished graphic form.

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