Since 2018 - a renewed performance of the Solo Theatre (previously created at the Arts Printing House, performed at the Lithuanian National Drama Theatre)
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Birutė Mar's mono-performance "Poet" is about the fate of the most prominent Lithuanian poet of the past century, S.Nėries, who has already turned into a universal figure of the 20th century.

Although sixty years have passed since the death of Salome Nėries, her life remains an enigma: accusations of her political mistakes, which supposedly underestimated her talented work, continue to circulate. Just over a decade ago, the last collection of Nėries's wartime poetry, "At the Big Road", was published, reflecting her tragic states and experiences in exile in Russia, in the last years of the poet's short life... There are rumours that her wartime diaries have been handed over to somebody and that they may one day see the light of day as well.

But even when you are reading S.Nėries' diary entries (which the poet wrote all the time, from the age of fourteen), it is difficult (and probably unnecessary) to answer many questions about her personal life, because they are a sparkling document of the artist's fate, which testifies to the fact that there is a huge gap between the problems solved by the Creator and the problems arising in real human life.
The documentary form of "The Trial of the Poetess" has been chosen for the performance: excerpts of articles accusing and defending Nėris are heard from the hall, and even a statement (which appeared last year in "Ziemeļ Atėnai", on the occasion of the 100th anniversary of Nėris's birth) is made that the Poetess should have been put to death. Every creator and every human being is judged in the same way. An attempt was made to trace how Neris went from poems radiant with the joy of her youth to the "Poem about Stalin", how this breakthrough took place, what pushed her to it (the answers were sought in her diary and in her work, which S.

"Poet" is also an excuse and an opportunity to talk about the present day, about the Creator and society's attitude towards him, which is often hostile. It is a very topical and contemporary theme.