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2023 / 10 / 24 Press release | News

Playwrights from Other Countries Inspired by Vilnius and the Artworks They Saw There

Aušra Pociūtė

Last week the participants of the International Playwrights' Residency were staying in Vilnius for the whole week. This residency was implemented by the Royal Belgian Theatre in Brussels, the Spanish National Theatre in Madrid, the Gorki Theatre in Berlin, and the Lithuanian National Drama Theatre (LNDT). This year's Versmė Festival will feature plays by LNDT representatives and a final meeting of all participants will take place in Madrid in November.
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2023 / 07 / 14 Press release | News

LNDT Announces 5 New Season Premieres and the Return of Great Hall Hits

Aušra Pociūtė

The Lithuanian National Drama Theatre (LNDT) has announced the repertoire for the 84th season (September 2023 – February 2024), which will include 5 premieres and the return of the audience's favorite and much-loved productions to the Great Hall. The 84th season of LNDT will start on 6 September with a new work for the teenage audience, "Roulette" by the Norwegian director Jo Strømgren, who is already well known to Lithuanians.
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2023 / 03 / 09 Press release | News

Žygimantas Kudirka and Natalija Vorozhbit from Ukraine Will Represent Lithuania at the International Playwrights' Residencies

The Lithuanian National Drama Theatre, together with three other European theatres – the Royal Belgian Theatre (KVS – Koninklijke Vlaamse Schouwburg), the Spanish National Theatre (Centro Dramatico Nacional) in Madrid, and the Gorki Theatre in Berlin – is launching a year-long program of playwrights' residencies in four cities including Vilnius.
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2023 / 02 / 20 Press release | News

LNDT's New Artistic Directors Start Work

As the Lithuanian National Drama Theatre (LNDT) enters a new phase of its activities and changes the course of its creative program, three theatre directors – Kamilė Gudmonaitė, Antanas Obcarskas, and Eglė Švedkauskaitė – start their new positions as Artistic Directors. The new artistic directors will shape the creative and artistic route of the LNDT, ensure the artistic quality of the theatre's premieres, and develop alternative activities that will enable the theatre to be integrated into the life of society diversely and to become even closer to the contemporary audience.
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2022 / 11 / 14 Press release | News

Triumph of LNDT’s "The Silence of the Sirens" in Germany, Praise from Gregory Porter

Aušra Pociūtė

Yesterday The Silence of the Sirens, a production of the Lithuanian National Drama Theatre, won the main prize at the International European Festival of Emerging Young Directors ‘Fast Forward’ in Dresden, Germany. The competition programme brought together the best emerging theatre creators from Hungary, Sweden, Austria, Spain, Belgium, Serbia, and Lithuania.
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2021 / 08 / 26 Press release | News

Grzegorz Jarzyna at LNDT: ‘We are lacking the exchange of emotions, the living contact'

Daiva Šabasevičienė

Grzegorz Jarzyna, the Polish director renowned in Europe, started rehearsals at the Lithuanian National Drama Theatre. He is working on a play based on Stanislaw Lem’s novel Solaris, which is scheduled to premiere at the New Hall of the LNDT in September this year. The cast includes Nelė Savičenko, Arūnas Sakalauskas, Martynas Nedzinskas, Gytis Ivanauskas, Rasa Samuolytė, Dainius Gavenonis, Kęstutis Cicėnas, and Oneida Kunsunga.
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2021 / 05 / 30 Press release | News

"The sleepers", the new production by M. Ivaškevičius and O. Koršunovas, to open the new hall of LNDT

Daiva Šabasevičienė

The first stage of rehearsals of Marius Ivaškevičius’s drama The Sleepers, the upcoming premiere at the Lithuanian National Drama Theatre, is over. The performance, which will premiere in August at the New Hall of the LNDT, is directed by Oskaras Koršunovas, who has recently taken up the post of the theatre’s artistic director, and who has agreed talk about his idea.
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2020 / 10 / 19 Press release | News

Laurynas Adomaitis, the author of “Alice”: ‘Traumas change thinking about justice and revenge’

Daiva Šabasevičienė

“Alice”, the new production of the Lithuanian National Drama Theatre, addresses the consequences of the 2015 terrorist attack in the Bataclan nightclub in Paris. How can justice be restored when 130 people lost their lives? ‘To me, the most important thing was to show the ways in which the events affect the characters’ emotions and cause deep traumatic experiences. We all know about those events, don’t we? Each of us was somewhere when this happened. Some were in Paris, others in Vilnius. So what? The psyche can be affected from a distance, and people very easily identify with traumas,’ says Laurynas Adomaitis, the playwright.
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2020 / 10 / 14 Press release | News

The world ignores everything. Interview with Antanas Obcarskas

Daiva Šabasevičienė

At the Lithuanian National Drama Theatre, this autumn has been generous with premieres. Audiences have already seen “Respublika”, “Dialogues” and “Marius Repšys on Stage” with “Alice” is set to premiere on 23 October. This production, which is based on Laurynas Adomaitis’s original play, is directed by Antanas Obcarskas. With the premiere of “Alice” approaching, Daiva Šabasevičienė talks to the director, Antanas Obcarskas.
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2020 / 09 / 03 Press release | News

Director Łukasz Twarkowski: ‘Respublika's audience will feel like they are part of the action’

Aušra Pociūtė

On 3, 4, and 5 September, the 81st season of the Lithuanian National Drama Theatre will open with the premiere of “Respublika”, directed by Łukasz Twarkowski. It is a production of a remarkable breadth and form which, according to the director, will draw the audience into action and into a closed commune. Łukasz Twarkowski is interested in the secrets of the contemporary mindset, as well as the changed ways of receiving and processing information, so to reach this contemporary viewer, Twarkowski chooses novel forms of theatre which merge video footage, acting, visual arts, and music. The latter is especially meaningful in “Respublika”.
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