Here and now is a summer evening. It's late, but it's still warm. Guests are sitting at a long table laden with food. Celebrating the wedding of Katia and Georg. Here and now - it is heard who they will be in the future. Here and now - birds chirping, children's songs and an old horn. Now or never. Not now, never again.
The work of one of the most famous contemporary German playwrights, Roland Schimmelpfenning, resembles the experience of looking through a kaleidoscope. Only instead of multi-colored pieces of glass, fragments of reality are added to the inside of the optical device, the reflections of which create the feeling of daydreaming. R. Schimmelpfenning became familiar to the audience of the Theater of Freaks back in 2015. with dir. Giedrė Kriaučionytė's performance "The Woman". Now the German playwright returns to this stage in the form of the play "Here and Now" directed by Agniaus Jankevičius.
For the first time, the audience of the Lithuanian theater is presented to the audience of the play, based on the motives of which the performance is staged, in the epicenter - a game with the relationship between man and time. What prevents a person from being here and now, like an annoying mosquito? One answer could be the uncertainty of the future, all the fears and hopes we try to lean on when faced with the unknown, which, no matter how meticulously we plan, we still cannot fully predict. And try to imagine an important, significant, life-changing event where you would know exactly how your life will change. Let's say a wedding where you are told how the love of the newlyweds will end.
"Here and now" time opens in a poetically absurd, comically dreamlike, paradox-like reality, which "releases" a person from future fears and hopes, because the future time does not appear here as an infinite set of possible scenarios, but as something that is known in advance. It's all like a mosaic coming together in a phantasmagoric wedding celebration that, if you listen closely, you can already hear buzzing around you.
