Musical performance for children "Drūlija the Owl"

Drūlija the Owl is a character created by therapeutic storyteller Inga Narijauskienė, who was written down and released to live her own authentic life only much later, when the Lithuanian author became an early childhood education specialist and a grandmother.

This musical performance for the whole family is based on one of the author's fairy tales "How Owl Drūlija Searched for Patience", in which one morning Owl Drūlija tastes peas and wants to grow them, but it is only after planting that she learns that patience is needed for the peas to grow big and juicy. Not knowing what patience is or where it comes from, Owl goes out into the forest to find it. In the play, Drūlija meets the characters the children already know - the caterpillar, the little woodpeckers, Taputapu the elephant and Umba the squirrel - all waiting for something, and all finding different ways of doing it without getting bored - "When you play and wait,/ It's easy to wait,/ Time flies by/ With a little motor."

I. Narijauskienė, the author of the persona, who has studied early childhood development for a long time, personifies the owl by transferring into it not only the playful, but at the same time also the complex world of children. The witty and multi-layered narrative allows not only to identify with the described character, but also to find a solution to the sometimes not so simple stages of children's development, both for the little ones and for their parents. The author gives the tools to solve problems in a playful and creative way.

The forest, which in the play will allow Drūlija to find patience, will sound very Lithuanian. It will be intertwined with instruments such as the birbynė, kanklės, scrabalai. And the story itself will be intertwined with Lithuanian folk games, sutartinės and the sensitive and magical relationship we Lithuanians have with nature. By nurturing Lithuanian folk performing arts, we aim to nurture the identity of the younger generation in a relevant and inspiring way - what our grandparents and parents grew up with, what we grew up with and what our children will grow up with.