The action of the play takes place in an unknown corner of the world - it could be a village in Poland or Lithuania. People live in it - poor, suspicious of all innovations, stuck in their Christian pagan mythology. There are not many residents left in the village, and those who are left are interwoven with each other by kinship ties that are difficult to untangle. Sometimes it seems that even they themselves don't really trace those relatives - maybe that's why they call each other not very respectful nicknames.
As in any closed community, it teems with secret sinful loves, deeply hidden hatreds and dreams of revenge for old grievances.
Everything suddenly opens up during one funeral - domestic realism is instantly replaced by magical realism. And the secret connections between Eros and Thanata, their deep closeness is revealed in all its creepy beauty...
The audience of the Klaipėda theater already knows the name of the Polish director Agata Duda-Gracz well: last year her play "Between Lena's Legs, or "The Death of the Blessed Virgin Mary" by Michelangelo Caravaggio" staged at the Klaipėda Drama Theater became one of the biggest theatrical events, was shown at international theater festivals in Poland and in Hungary.
When A. Duda-Gracz takes up work, you can always expect surprises. The director herself writes the scripts for her performances, creates scenography and costumes. Its cultural horizons and the field of topics are enormous: from baroque art to the rural life of our days, the outlying people. Everywhere, she is able to detect and see a person, the essential laws of his being. To see through your characters and behind their external meanness and pettiness to see true humanity, even a kind of existential heroism, worthy, if not sympathy, then at least genuine sympathy.
A. Duda-Gracz's new performance is called "Love". As always in her plays, it will have a lot of tragedy and a lot of laughter. Lots of cruelty and lots of compassion. Straightforward brutality and filigree delicacy. There will be a lot of love - and a lot of death.
