The Canary Prophecy Part 1: "Seven Solitudes"
The Canary Prophecy Part 1: "Seven Solitudes"
Performance
Wed, 28 May 2025, 18:30
Price:
19.20–24.20 €
Staff
Theatre director
ŠviesaScreenplay
ŠviesaCostume designer
Jurgita Jankute MirinavicieneComposer
Toma CepaiteAudiovisual artist
Darius PeciuraEvent description
Part 1: "Seven Solitudes". Here you will have the opportunity to meet the poet's grandparents, parents and his life until the age of 33. Oscar Vladislas de Lubicz-Milosz was born and raised in the Cherea estate. After the division of the GDL between Russia and Prussia, the area belonged to the Russian Empire (Mogilev Governorate). Now Belarus (Vitebsk Oblast). The poet's childhood and youth were difficult: he came from an old noble family of the GDL, but he did not receive love and tenderness in his childhood and remained lonely all his life. At the end of the 19th century, he was a lover of poetry and was always lonely, with no childhood and no love. The Parisian bohemia and the everyday life in the provinces of Tsarist Russia in the early 20th century shaped the young poet's personality, his relationships with people, and his creative and spiritual quests. Naturally, you will be able to enjoy Oskar's poems in French and Lithuanian. His first collection of poetry, Le Poeme des Decadences (1894), is full of symbols of painful emotions and disillusionment with life, imbued with cynicism and the cry of death. In the second, Les Sept Solitudes (1906), the poet deepens the poignancy of his loneliness. The collection captures the sadness of the whole world over the loss of childhood, the longing for a real home, the search for meaning and the desperate sense of meaninglessness, the emptiness of existence. And how can one be without love? There will be it... How did Milasius discover God, brought up in an atheistic spirit...? What event caused the great poet to long to unlock the secrets and hear the whisper of the canary ghosts?... At that time, the First World War was going on, and Oskar continued to write poems and three mysteries. "This is truly extraordinary beauty - I think I can die peacefully. I write day and night, until five or six o'clock in the morning, and at noon I'm back at my desk. I no longer eat or sleep. P.S. You know, you have to work." All this and more, dear viewers, is what you will see when you come.