The movement performance "Pykšt pokšt tratata" is a fragmented, 100-minute-long action with movement, text and music, analysing the relationship between war and man.
The performance tells 9 stories based on Euripides' tragedy "The Trojans" and documentary material consisting of intimate stories of the grandparents and relatives of the creative team about the Second World War and its aftermath - the exile. How do different direct and indirect experiences of war and destruction affect the individual? What personal and cultural scars do we inherit? Using fictional and documentary historical experiences, the creative team of the play performs an autopsy of war, which focuses on the physical, psychological and emotional relationship between war and the human being.
The two actors in the play embody more than 10 different characters, characteristics or phenomena: children, a Western hero in a "coat", Julius Caesar, Joseph Stalin, Adolf Hitler and an exile, war and madness, going out and staying in, soldiers, lovers, Cassandra and Taltibias, father/son/brother/husband and the dead, Eve and Adam and finally the actors themselves.
The 9 stories, like fragments scattered after a war, are connected by the game "Pamarskomu", which determines who lives and who dies. This is an unorchestrated motif of the performance - a deliberate allusion to the absurdity of war and the lottery of survival in it. The audience will be invited to join the game and will determine the ending.
A co-production of Panevėžys Theatre "Menas" and Normal Theatre.
The project is funded by.
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