Many directors created a portrait of Hamlet, so it is not for nothing that this play has become synonymous with the theater. Each generation has its own answer to the question of being. For both Hamlet and his peers - director Vids Bareikis and actor Vainis Sodeikas (Hamlet), the theater and the stage are places to search for what is "not a lie", with the youthful hope of finding at least a crumb of what is true.
Hamlet's personality in Vidos Bareikis' play is definitely not a romantic hero, probably not an idealist, but a human being in the truest sense of the word. He is looking for the truth and his feelings are not from the world of fairy tales - both love, and feverish revenge, and mourning, and greed, and despair - create what we can call a real person, with all its colors and shades. Perhaps this is what has kept this play relevant for more than four hundred years.
This performance is a continuation of V. Bareikis' favorite principle of "theatre within a theater". The theater acts as a mirror - forcing us to look, it reveals what often remains in the shadows: the actor's own mission, the duality of his personality, being and being in and outside the theater. Hamlet looks to the theater as the ultimate instance of truth when he says:
Having similar hopes for the theater as Hamlet, Vidas Bareikis staged this play. His concept of theater is a non-moralizing mirror for the audience. The theater for Hamlet, similarly to V. Bareikis, is the only place where, wearing the mask of a madman, he can see through the present and show the naked and shameless reality of the world with humor and elegant irony. In this production, the legendary tragedy is not complete without a good portion of laughter through tears, because only by looking at one's fate (Fortune) with humor, it is possible to see the true tragedy and universality of Hamlet's being.
Hamlet asks: Why do we succumb to environment? Can our lives become less primitive? What is duty? Why do we rarely transcend our limitations? These are just a few questions to which V. Bareikis and NKDT actors are frantically searching for answers.
