"Not according to the fashion of this world" is not only the title of the play, but also an entry in the death records of Precentor K. V. Schulz: "He was [...] an honest person. Not after the fashion of this world..." (1977, p. 573). The actor and director of the play, R. Kazlas, who himself is appropriately labelled as not following the fashion of this world, says of the forthcoming play: "With this work I want to look at Kristijonas Donelaitis not as a historical personality already known to all of us, not as a classic who has long lived only in textbooks or chrestomatics, but as an ever-living poet who lives his eternal years and is continuously creating them, like a poem.

He and his work are like a kind of healthy foundation for us who still speak Lithuanian. In this performance, I would be more interested in a silent poet than in one who delivers sermons; in one who toils, crouches and dances rather than stands in a pulpit; in his own backyard with his wife rather than in the fields with the bulls; in one who is maturing the word rather than writing it down. In my opinion, K. Donelaitis is the body becoming the word. Forgive me those who do not think so. He is a man who has respected the laws of the earth, the sky and time, and not chased after fleeting human fashions, like spring or autumn - each time the same, but always different.