The creative team of the play based on Ingmar Bergman's "Autumn Sonata" examines complex human relationships. Each character has experienced some sort of life trauma that prevents them from moving forward.
This is another performance by Vytautas Rumšas and his associates - actors Dalia Storyk, Adria Čepaitė, Saulius Balandis, pianist Monika Palšauskaitė, who have extensive stage experience, based on the work of Ingmar Bergman. This production is the third part of a trilogy of performances: the first two parts "Intimate Conversations" and "Scenes from Married Life" were staged at the National Drama Theatre.
The performance "Autumn Sonata" takes the viewer to the complicated meeting of mother and daughter after many years, the world of their experiences, old grievances, unspoken thoughts, emotions. Here, love and tenderness intertwine with pain and betrayal.
This performance is also the story of a husband and wife, which raises many questions: who am I, what do I want, what do I give to others.
The words that reflect the essence of the play come from the lips of the main characters of the play:
Eva (Adrija Čepaitė):
"You have to learn to live, I learn that every day. The biggest obstacle is that I don't know who I am, I'm walking around like I'm blind. If there was a person who would love me as I am, maybe I would dare to look at myself."
Victor (Saulius Balandis):
"I would like to tell her that this person is there, that I love her, that I adore her without any reservations. I'm trying to find the words to make her believe, but I can't find them, I can't find them."
"Being an adult means being able to control your dreams and hopes and not expect anything anymore.
And stop wondering."
Charlotte (Dalia Storyk) :
"I hardly remember my childhood and I don't remember my parents hugging and kissing me at all. I had no idea about love, nor what tenderness, caressing, closeness is. Now I sometimes wonder if I really lived at all…”
The whole performance is summed up by the wisdom of the play's author:
"However, there is a kind of grace. It is an extraordinary opportunity to care for each other, to help each other, to show tenderness."
After the play's premiere, theater expert Daiva Šabasevičienė wrote:
"A family drama, the intensity of which is focused on human psychology - everything that is most interesting in a person is very carefully analyzed in this performance."
"Autumn Sonata" is read like a poetic stanza on a crisp winter's evening. In the eighties of the 20th century, when Eimuntas Nekrošius of bright memory created in the Youth Theater, premieres of difficult content took place just before the New Year. This time, after leaving the house founded by Nekrošius, these memories came alive. A lot has changed in the theater, but the creators have found a way and the strength to bring back what seems to have already been lost."
