The peace of a small town is disturbed by a gruesome murder. A respectable rich man of the town is found murdered in his home. Who could have committed this crime? What are the motives for the murder? What could everyone's favorite town gentleman have fallen for? When the circumstances of the murder begin to be explained, many unexpected things and details begin to surface - secret love relationships, blackmail, gossip, personal secrets. Only the most famous detective in the world of literature - the genius Erkiulis Poirot - can not get lost in such confusion. So, when Poirot appears in the town unexpectedly, but as always at the most needed time, the picture of the crime slowly begins to emerge...
Who is this mysterious Poirot? Poirot is one of the most famous characters created by the detective master Agatha Christie, who appears in as many as 33 novellas, two plays and more than 50 short stories published between 1920 and 1975. He is a mystical figure, a multifaceted hero who manages to bring order to a chaotic world, exposes and punishes the guilty. Poirot is characterized by supernatural qualities, strange habits and scrupulousness and, above all, optimism that is so necessary today, illuminating even the most gloomy everyday life.
In the play, the story of the murder is told through the eyes of the town doctor Džiugo Šeparis, and all the events on the stage are closely watched by the eyes of the doctor's mother. Poirot oscillates between reality and fiction, depicting bored and violent people and their imagination. The seemingly bleak environment and horrible events in the play are accepted as fiction, with the help of which it is possible to talk about the inactivity, closedness, and boredom of our current society. Such a society becomes a good environment for violence - both physical and psychological, and against oneself or a perceived enemy.
According to detective researcher and essayist Ernest Parulski, “detective literature is one of the most honest genres of anthropological literature. In order to spin a good crime plot, which must be fictitious, the author is forced to compensate fiction with reality. This has unexpected benefits. When you read the detective stories of smaller countries, you actually get the most accurate cross-section of that country - both touristic, anthropological, social and economic."
Director Gildas Aleksa Poirot adapts the mythologeme to the Lithuanian mentality and tells a story about the great dehumanization of a small man in a small Lithuanian town. "All problems are solved, but aren't new ones created in this way?" - ask the creators of the performance.
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