The play is based on the short story of the same name by Robert Walser.
 
The Walk, perhaps Swiss writer Robert Walser's most famous short story, truly portrays himself, his being as a writer and a shy, timid inhabitant of this often unfriendly world. Robert Walser, born in Byl in 1878, was an overly sensitive person all his life, haunted by his own demons. He died in 1956, after spending many decades quietly in a psychiatric hospital, forgotten by people and the world of literature. It was only rediscovered in the 1970s, although Robert Musil, Franz Kafka, Walter Benjamin and Hermann Hesse had already admired his very unique, poetic prose.
 
The Walk, first published in 1917, was hailed by the Swiss literary critic Eduardas Korrodis even then as "a cheerful little masterpiece: an apology of a toiling idler, called a poet by ordinary people."
 
"Eureka!" I found it! Here is an author really worthy of attention and the greatest respect!” - this was my first reaction when I met Robert Walser, this Swiss writer of exceptional talent and extraordinary fortune. And after reading his "Walk", which was perfectly translated into Lithuanian by Rūta Jonynaitė, I realized that it is a real treasure and a gift for the theater stage, actors and audience. And now, for eight years now, I've been walking around this piece in my mind and trying to invite it to the stage. A very bright and playful, painful and funny, free and wise "Walserian" look and word is perhaps what is most needed by a person today, and at the same time by myself as an actor and director.
 
"To create or to die...", "to write and not add a point...", "it is better to create the world yourself than to be content with the way it is..." - such thoughts are probably woven into this work. "Walk", this is the real life of the creator, his fate, happiness and misfortune. It is a journey of the imagination through a white sheet of paper, a canvas, an empty stage, which comes alive only in the presence of a walker: a writer, artist, actor, musician, poet... And a real walker cannot not walk, otherwise he would be a non-walker. Therefore, we would like the "Walking" around the stage for three actors and a pencil to be fun for everyone: both the walkers and the audience.
 
I invite everyone to take a walk through the "Walk" and I hope that this sentence will be liked by everyone, will satisfy everyone and will receive warm approval.