Known to many different generations in a different way, "NUT BREAD", which was caught on a school bench, and has been added to the classic funds of Lithuanian cinema and theater, breathes a breath of fresh air into the Keistuolii Theater, resounding with the music of "The Beatles" and the steps of the outgoing childhood.
The joint work of the director Aidas Giniotis and the actors of the Keistuliai Theater of different generations is an extremely open, a little painful, terribly funny and very sad performance for high school students, young people and all adults who still remember the taste of the last carefree days of life. Based on a short story by Saulius Šaltenis, the play tells the story of Andrius Šatas, a young guy living in a small Lithuanian town of the middle of the last century, and his beloved Liuka, whose bright love story is overshadowed by the disagreements of the Šatas and Kaminski families. Nut bread from the hands of Andrius' uncle Boleslov is a symbol of the most beautiful days of happy childhood, which christened the work and became for its main character a new, conscious, carefree life that has lost its illusions.
"Riešuti duona" of the Theater of Freaks frees itself from the nostalgic aesthetics of the romanticized countryside and turns to a more sophisticated urban image of Lithuania in the 1960s, whose young generation, although limited by the framework of the Soviet era, is already filled with the rhythm of European culture and music. It is no coincidence that this rhythm was chosen for the soundtrack of the play by The Beatles, whose music conveys the spirit of Andriaus Šatas' teenage years.
The inner drama experienced by every maturing person in Nut Bread is colored with touches of bright sadness and subtle irony. This is a performance for young people who live in a constantly changing, a little cynical and pure love-denying environment, where sometimes there are so many moments when you can say to yourself: "I am not alone!".
