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LNDT International Tours in October

Daiva Šabasevičienė

On October 5, Lithuanian National Drama Theater’s production Heroes’ Square by Thomas Bernhard directed in 2015 by a famous Polish director and scenographer Krystian Lupa, will be presented in Minsk, on the stage of the MAZ Palace of Culture. This performance is included in the Teatr Program of the International Theater Arts Forum.
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China is waiting for TARTUFFE. Koršunovas' interview for Chinese press

Last year the show "Tartiufas", dir. Oskaras Koršunovas, has shaken the audience of international theatre festival in Avignon, France, and this year the show intends to conquer the sympathies of Chinese spectators. This weekend, the Lithuanian National Drama Theater’s comedy takes off for a month-long tour in China, visiting five big cities. Even before the tour started, the Chinese media was actively interested in the Lithuanian performance. One of the interviews given by O. Koršunovas to the organizers of the Shanghai Fake Festival, the Lithuanian National Drama Theater shares with Lithuanian readers.
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VERSMĖ invites to a dramaturgy workshop led by Naomi Yoeli

Contemporary drama festival VERSMĖ invites young and emerging Lithuanian playrights and theatre people to a dramaturgy workshop on “researching and performing private histories" led by Naomi Yoeli ,one of the most significant contemporary Israeli fringe theatre makers. Individual stories and private memories open up a vast creative territory where along with “small narratives” that could be researched it also raises the questions of collective memory and human history, i.e. the issue of individual versus collective.
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The Freedom Formula. LNDT Announces the Young Artist Program Competition

In 2020 it will be exactly thirty years since Lithuania’s independence was restored in the 1990s. In the same year, Nelson Mandela was released from prison, East and West Germany reunited, and US celebrity Joe Rogan paid 10.000 US dollars per month for a faster Internet connection at home. The Freedom Formula According to Us is the theme the Lithuanian National Drama Theater (LNDT) chose for the second International Young Artist Program Competition.
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M. DAVYDOVA’S “ETERNAL RUSSIA”, CREATED IN BERLIN, IS COMING TO VILNIUS

Aušra Pociūtė

Marina Davydova, a renowned Russian theater critic and producer presented her first play “Eternal Russia” at the Berlin HAU Hebbel am Ufer Theater. It was part of the project “Utopian Realities” dedicated to the 100th anniversary of the February Revolution. On April 12-14, the performance that has received great interest and recognition will be presented to the audience of Vilnius by the Lithuanian National Drama Theater.
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LNDT “LOKIS” TO BE PRESENTED AT OPERA AND BALLET THEATER

Lithuanian National Drama Theater’s performance “Lokis”, dir. Łukasz Twarkowski has already visited the audiences of Torun, Warsaw and Madrid. The creative team of the performance, who have recently returned from the capital of Spain, are counting positive Spanish reviews and preparing to perform at the Lithuanian National Opera and Ballet Theater on May 8.
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Lithuanian National Drama Theater: Young Artist Program Commences!

For the first time, the Lithuanian National Drama Theater has organized an international program for young artists. Of the 38 applicants, three winners were selected, who will present their theatrical ideas to the Lithuanian audience in the spring of 2019. Approximately half of all submitted applications were from abroad: artists from Cuba, USA, Belgium, Italy, Russia, Latvia, Estonia, Poland, Germany, France, Kazakhstan, India, Czech Republic, Greece, Norway, Finland and Lithuania submitted their ideas for theater productions.
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Open Call for Young and Emerging Theatre Makers

Lithuanian National Drama Theatre invites young artists (under 35) of various artistic fields to present ideas for contemporary performative and interdisciplinary arts platform. Applicants are expected to fit into a limited budget (up to 15 000 eur) and time-frame (6 weeks for production, projects released first half of 2019) and to address one of the topics discussed below. We are looking for ambitious, convention-breaking, current-trends-questioning, interdisciplinary projects from young and emerging artists from around the world.
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„Tartuffe“ selected for the Avignon festival

Last week, one of the oldest and most famous theater festivals, Festival d’Avignon revealed its program for 2018. During the press conference it was officially announced that on July 17-21, 2018, LNDT’s production Tartuffe, directed by Oskaras Koršunovas, will be played at the Opera Confluence Hall.
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On the Stage of LNDT - five stories about the search for a new homeland

On November 25, five immigrants living in Lithuania will tell their stories to theatergoers for the first time. A small business owner from Afghanistan who has not seen his wife and children for four years, two members of the Russian opposition, a Muslim student from Turkey, and a love migrant from Lebanon are the main characters of the play Dreamland by the Lithuanian National Drama Theater.
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