How do our lives with each other affect our biographies and bodies? Physical touch and closeness turn from a gesture of love into a potential threat. As the title of the play suggests, this piece is about those borders and overcoming them, which have gained new relevance during the pandemic. Social restraints have brought not only a different pattern of behavior into our lives, but also related neuroses - fear of touching another, anxiety to breathe freely. "Touch" talks about that moment when a critical event becomes a turning point in our daily life, because not only our relationship with nature, but also our social habits change in an instant. And how to go back? How to overcome anxiety and fear of touch?
Falkas Richter (b. 1969) is one of the most important German playwrights and directors of his generation. He studied linguistics, philosophy and theater direction at the University of Hamburg. His plays have been translated into more than 25 languages and staged around the world. In addition to writing and directing his own plays, Richter has directed Shakespeare, Chekhov, Schiller, Brecht and many contemporary writers such as Caryl Churchill, Harold Pinter, Martin Crimp, Sarah Kane, Jon Fosse, Mark Ravenhill, Lars Noren, Roland Schimmelpfennig, and Opera by Tchaikovsky, Strauss and Weber, as well as by Hans Werner Henze, Jörg Widmann and Jörn Arnecke
The director Kotryna Siaurusaitytė graduated from the Lithuanian Academy of Music and Theater, where she obtained a bachelor's degree in theater directing (2015-2019), the course director is Eimuntas Nekrošius. The director's works in the state theaters of Lithuania: "It was quiet. A brief impression of creation and destruction" (2018, State Šiauliai Drama Theatre), "Conversations on a moonlit night" (2019, Juozo Miltinis Drama Theatre), "The Little Prince" (2019, Juozo Miltinis Drama Theatre), "The Cloak" (2021, Juozo Miltinis Drama Theatre), "The Extraordinary Journey of Edvards Tyuleins" (2022, Juoz Miltinis Drama Theatre). Readings: "I was at home and I was waiting for the rain to come" (2023, Vilnius old theater). Kotryna is currently working as a director's assistant at the Lithuanian National Drama Theater.
