Puppeteers Aušra Bakanaitė, Agnė Jablonskytė, Gintarė Radvilavičiūtė

The puppeteers' performance "Kissing the Ashes" was born in collaboration with the French puppeteer, director Renaud Herbin. The theatre invited the artist to create a work about Klaipėda, a city that has repeatedly risen from the ashes, and the dramaturgy of the performance is based on the events of the Second World War. In the autumn of 1944, most of the old inhabitants were evacuated to Germany, and when the Red Army arrived in the city, they found only a few people there.

 

Renaud Herbin and his creative team decided to create a poetic dedication to this crack and to investigate what it means to lose one's memory, how is a story told when one does not remember or does not want to remember everything, what is done with the cracks, which story is more real for which narrator - the actor or the marionette? Since historical narrative is a very delicate matter, the play does not seek to recreate the truth, but on the contrary uses fantasy, which is also a kind of memory, especially a collective one. "Kissing the Ashes is one of a thousand possible stories about what happens when a city loses its memory.