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Lukasz Twarkowski's new play ‘Quanta’ will open LNDT's 85th season

Aušra Pociūtė

On 13 September, the Lithuanian National Drama Theatre (LNDT) will open its 85th season with a premiere at the Great Hall. The new play ‘Quanta’ will be presented by director Lukasz Twarkowski, who started his international directing career at the LNDT - his 2017 production ‘Lokis’ won four Golden Stage Crosses – National Theatre prizes in Lithuania.
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The LNDT Prepares for Tours in Athens, Brussels, Toruń and Rakvere

Aušra Pociūtė

The Lithuanian National Drama Theatre (LNDT) is one of the country's most frequently touring theatres. It is currently preparing for four tours shortly, where it will present its performances to audiences in Athens (Greece), Brussels (Belgium), Toruń (Poland), and Rakvere (Estonia). The LNDT's production “Respublica”, directed by Łukasz Twarkowski, is frequently presented in other countries: last year it was shown at the Holland Festival in the Netherlands, and in 2022 it was presented twice in Germany – at the Ruhr Triennial and the Kammerspiele Theater in Munich. In May this year, the creative team will travel to Belgium for three presentations at the Kunstenfestivaldesarts (23, 24, and 25 May).
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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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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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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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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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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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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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"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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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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