In this unique performance, the director, using a work close to his soul by the genius of the Romantic era, Mikhail Lermontov, expressed today's world permeated by the phantasmagoria of the present. All of Rimos Tumin's performances put the audience in a festive mood, allowing them to experience the almost childlike pure joy of the holiday, but "Masquerade" probably surpasses all, there is something to do here for both the thinking and the audience thirsty for beauty and humor. A love story centered on a lost bracelet is interwoven with a variety of characters - gamblers, ladies, a baroness, a duke, servants and those you can't exactly name. These are the people who surround us every day, who are the mediators and pests of pure love The magic of director Rimos Tumin's "Masquerade" does not come from the revelry of the masquerade ball. The actors' performance, direction, scenography conveys the momentary celebration and the constant longing for it, which persists long after the performance ends. The atmosphere of the performance can be described with the following words of the director: "Imagine that you are in St. Petersburg, when it is cold outside, the ice is cleared in some places, very slippery in some places. And the stars are reflected in that ice. You are acting on such a stage, in Petersburg of that time, you are among the people of that city." These words very accurately describe Rimas Tuminas himself as a creator, and at the same time accurately indicate the direction of what the wonderful actors of the Lithuanian theater, the main heroes of the play, are thinking about: Arvydas Dapšys, Vytautas Rumšas, Indrė Patkauskaitė, leaving the "Masquerade" stage. The play, which entered the "golden fund" of the Lithuanian theater, has toured many countries around the world - from Sweden to Italy, from South Korea to Mexico - and won several prestigious awards, including the Lithuanian "Christopher" and the highest Russian theater award "Golden Mask". After the "Masquerade" tour in Great Britain in 1999. The Guardian named the troupe from Vilnius one of the best in the world. In this performance of mesmerizing beauty, with the sounds of a heady and longing Khachaturian waltz and snow falling in the empty black space of the stage, the cultural experience of the last century is nostalgically reflected, reminding us of the theater of Brecht and Strehler, Broadway frenzies and the films of Fellini. Rim Tumin's "Masquerade" shows the director's individual sense of romanticism, related not only to the culture of the 19th century, but also to the folklore world, the genre of commedia dell'arte. The elements of this genre prevent the enchanting spectacle from turning into a mere sentimental melodrama, which in the hands of the director turns into an eccentric tragicomedy. The Independent noted that "director Rimos Tumin's treatment reveals the stinging tragedy of the play, reminiscent of Othello and The Winter's Tale at the same time, set in a wild, whirlwind world of blizzards, waltzes and elegant clowning antics."