For the new performance in the Small Hall, director Laura Kutkaitė takes her cue from the surrealist work "The Breasts of Teiresias" by the French poet, playwright and novelist Guillaume Apollinaire (1880-1918), and constructs her own text together with the actors, describing the upcoming performance as a "search for the anger of five bodies through tenderness".
In Apollinaire's work, the blue-faced figure Tereza rebels against her husband. She grows a beard and moustache and shouts into a megaphone about how masculine she feels. Tereza becomes Teiresias (the figure of the blind prophet in Greek myth), but at the end of the piece she returns to her husband and resumes the role of Tereza.
"I want to immerse the audience in a choreographic dream about blue breasts, anger, tenderness and trying to communicate between the sexes, trying not to think in a binary way. That ambition comes from my rather radical feminist position. The question of how to move away from the distinction between men and women is personal, important and relevant to me. I think it is especially relevant in Lithuanian theatre, where there are still a lot of clichés in the representation of gender.
I also want Teiresias' Breasts (I chose the singular on purpose) to be a dialogue on gender, dissident sexuality and the right to one's own body. We have to constantly fight for the right to our own bodies because they have a public dimension. The body, as the most radical form of our modernity, is a social phenomenon of today, a field of war. I hope that in the performance it will become the main object of the work and a space for us to raise questions", says director Laura Kutkaitė, reminding us that in this work, as in her previous works, there will be no shortage of black humour.