Could there be anything more colourful, more passionate, more dramatic, more debilitating, but also more elevating than an actor's life? And is there any other profession in the world that so permeates and governs human life? The actor is a god of the stage, a conqueror of the hearts of the audience, but at the same time he is also a jester, a clown, as if begging for the audience's love and attention.

The play "The Dressmaker" by the British playwright, screenwriter and actor Ronald Harwood, who has Lithuanian roots, has been reigning on the stages of theatres all over the world for thirty years. Both the play and its productions have won numerous prizes, including the prestigious Laurence Olivier Award. The 1983 film The Dressmaker, directed by Peter Yates, was particularly widely acclaimed and won numerous awards. Lithuanian theatre audiences were first introduced to this play by director Algirdas Latėnas. In 1996, he staged The Dressmaker at the Lithuanian National (then Academic) Drama Theatre with such stars as Regimantas Adomaitis, Eglė Gabrėnaitė, Arūnas Sakalauskas and others.

Algirdas Latėnas, the director of the play, who is returning for the second time to a play that reveals the behind-the-scenes of the actors' lives, says that it is important for him to establish a connection with the people who come to the theatre. This won't be difficult, as the play offers excellent material for the actors. And they are probably the entire constellation of the Juozas Miltinis Drama Theatre. The director was assisted by Kotryna Daujotaitė, one of the brightest set designers of the younger generation, and Faustas Latėnas, a master of theatre music and composer who has recently left us.


The project is funded by the Ministry of Culture of the Republic of Lithuania.