"The Lover" is an autobiographical novel by the French writer Marguerite Duras, written in 1984 and awarded the Goncourt Prize. It is a story about the love between a fifteen-year-old French girl and a Chinese millionaire in 1940s Indochina. For the first time, the heroine experiences a passion "from which one can die". This absolutely open, passionate, shocking confession of a woman is the basis of the play. Birutė Mar's "Lover" is a modern performance that conveys the poetic fabric of memories of M. Duras' work, using theatrical means - light, music, dance.


Over the course of more than a decade, the play "Meilužis" attracted the attention of Lithuanian and foreign audiences and received international recognition - it won a number of international theater festival awards.


Birutė Mar: "The charm of "The Lover" is also provided by its setting: Indochina, Saigon of the 1930s with its colors, smells, atmosphere, exotic touch of eastern culture and traditions. How to tell the memories of your youth on stage? How to use the means of theater (music, color, light, movement, voice) to convey the moods of love and passion, the stages of the love story of two people, the changing attitude towards oneself over time? It was interesting when creating "The Lover" - the universality of M. Duras' work allowed us to weave many authentic experiences into the performance.
Most of all, I wanted to experience the SILENCE behind the words in the theater space, containing all the colors of life - joy, suffering, closeness, loneliness; witnessing the mystery of our fragile life, irretrievable time, love and death. Silence, in which there is only one step before the scream of a confession... The genre of the one-act play turned out to be the closest to this intonation of M. Duras's story, because it is an opportunity for maximum stage experience, which allows you to be closest to the audience, to talk about the most intimate things."