"Lithuanian Nora goes from generation to generation. Maybe someone will play her again (in Lithuanian!) in twenty years... May she continue to improve!" (M. Mironaitė. From a letter to Rūta Staliliūnaite)
Monika Mironaitė is an actress, a prima donna, whose life and work spans a century of Lithuanian theater. She worked with the first professional theater directors Algirdas Jakševičius, Romualdas Juknevičius, Stasius Ušinskas, and was awarded the title of People's Artist of the lithuanian Social Republic during the Soviet era. She is an actress whose charisma and exceptional talent are witnessed by many of her contemporaries - theatergoers and spectators, and the story of her dramatic personal life is shrouded in many rumors and legends.
The role of Nora created by M. Mironaitė in H. Ibsen's classic drama "A Doll's House" (first performed at the Vilnius City Theater in 1942, directed by R. Juknevičius; second time - at the Vilnius Russian Drama Theater in 1959, directed by L. Lurjė) entered the history of Lithuanian theater as one of the most interesting and bright creative works of the actress.
Monika Mironaitė - NORA (1959)
The performance is created as a documentary mosaic from M. Mironaitė's letters, memories, diaries, interviews, poems and speeches read at the evenings of her work, Henrik Ibsen's drama "Doll's House. Nora" excerpts, as well as M. Mironaitė's contemporaries - daughter Dagneja Jakševičiūtė, Laimonas Noreika, Juozas Baltušis, Pranas Treinis. Fragments of memories of Rūta Staliliūnaitė, Audronė Girdzijauskaitė and others.
Photos from the collections of the Lithuanian Theater, Music and Cinema Museum were used.
