"London, London!" - hummed the audience, splitting up after the play "Unfortunates and charitables" of the Vilnius Small Theater. It is not only the main musical leitmotif of director Gabriele Tuminaitė's performance, performed virtuosically by actress Elžbieta Latėnaitė. The phrase "London, London!" contains the entire modern Lithuanian mythology. It includes everything that moves a 21st-century migrant Lithuanian to the core - callousness, everyday life hostile to man, a lot of black, meaningless, useless work, hysteria that breaks out when you can no longer bear the daily burden, the fierce struggle for survival and death constantly snooping in the back.
Artist, writer and cultural commentator Paulina Pukytė is the author of the book "Unfortunates and charitables", based on which the performance is based. She herself calls her work a literary experiment balancing between a novel and a play. As the art critic Laima Kreivytė writes, "Pukytė is attracted to what is pushed to the margins, what is "insignificant", insignificant, banal. (…) The latest book "Unfortunates and charitables" is a nugget of spoken language (if that language can be pure). The distance between the author and the character disappears. It can be said that the character also disappears - only conversations remain: in state institutions, airports, cafes, in virtual space."
"The book "Unfortunates and charitables" was first of all interesting for its precise and inventive form. The work, drawn from short literary etudes, fascinates with lightness and skillfully increasing emotional tension, Buddhist purity and expanding themes of loneliness, fate, decay. "Unfortunates and charitables" is a code name. Bedali are people who were not born there, did not grow up like that, left behind, did not experience success, lost their home, their foundations, their roots. Charitable positions are better. Some live in subway stations, others in glass skyscrapers, but they cannot do without each other. And this disharmony forms the harmony of our world." Gabrielė Tuminaitė
Age limit: N-16. The play uses non-normative vocabulary.
