It is a mono performance about truth and openness directed by Eglė Kižaitė. Allowing yourself and others to feel feelings, not being indifferent to each other - not hiding the elephants in the room, seeing them and naming them. Feelings make us unique and free, trying to suppress them we close ourselves in the room with the elephant and try to imagine that it is not here. But the elephant remains in the room even if we close our eyes and repeat that it is not here. And getting rid of it is not so easy.
The play written by Dovilė Zavedskaitė was highly rated in the contemporary dramaturgy competition "Talking about borders" organized by the Nuremberg National Theater. It is a work that reveals a portrait of a family, accompanied by loss, suicide and depression, but all the darkness and drama is offset by humor and irony. In this family story, director E. Kižaitė's attention was drawn to the Boy, who is present in almost every scene - an eight-year-old child who attends the second grade. This is a child who finds himself in a particularly painful situation that no one can explain to him. That inability to talk to a child, inability to express emotions, lack of empathy is what inspired the director and actor Mantas Bendžių to take this material and create a performance centered on the Boy. In the play, we meet an adult Boy, more than ten years after the loss, but still living through the events of those days. The whole story haunts him like an elephant whose presence he himself is unaware of.
During the performance, you will see a portrait of a person who experienced such strong events in his childhood, who suddenly lost everything without realizing it. Childhood experiences travel with us and have a huge impact on adulthood. Very often, in order to understand ourselves and the difficulties that arise, we must look back to our childhood. Even ten years later, the question - "Where's mom?" sticks in the boy's throat, and every time the old house - mom's apartment - brings back all the memories. Now, after all this time, he knows very well what happened, he knows that his mother is not there and why, but he is still preparing to accept and understand, to live the truth. The truth that those around him were unable to name when he was little. The fear of adults has imprisoned the Boy, making him unhappy, unable to deal with his feelings and possibly nearing the same end as his mother...
You buy an elephant. Don't want to? Everyone says they don't want to, but you buy an elephant. No need? Everyone says you don't have to, but you buy an elephant.
