The country is in turmoil, the village is under attack by terrorists and the boy becomes a stranger in the eyes of the locals, a threat to the village community. The locals declare the boy an enemy and demand that his family hand him over or the terrorists will kill the whole village. The playwright's aim in writing this play was to be universal, to think about what connects us, and so he chose the model of a Greek tragedy. It is a kind of version of the Antigone myth. Aristide Tarnagda's play does not run away from political issues, and one can recognise the rampage of terrorism in African countries today, or the war and post-war contexts in Lithuania. The director and his creative team do not focus so much on the political conflict as on the family drama through the experiences of the main character, his struggle between nihilism and idealism, and the notion of repentance. Is it possible to forgive oneself after taking another person's life? This play invites the audience not only to see the cooperation between countries from distant and very different cultures, but also to observe the universal spiritual struggle of man.
Partners of the performance Les Recreatales (Burkina Faso). The project is co-financed by the European Union, the Lithuanian Council for Culture and the Ministry of Culture of the Republic of Lithuania.
