Attention! Smoking during the performance*

It has been said that if there are any good things that came out of the First and Second World Wars, it was the many talented writers of the "Lost Generation" whose painful experiences found themselves at the center of some of the most valued literature of the 20th century. It is unlikely that we will find another such novel that talks about war in such a satirical way as it is done in the adventures of Šveik the Brave Soldier by the Czech writer Jaroslav Hašek.

Adomas Juška, a student of the director Eimuntas Nekrošius, while still a student of the 3rd course of directing at the Lithuanian Academy of Music and Theater, made his debut with the play Šveik based on the novel by Jaroslav Hašek. In his first work, the young director chose several situations created by the author of the cult novel and through them aimed to look at Šveik as a person whose smile was not an easy laugh, but a sharp opposition to the government, war and the environment. In the play, Šveik's setting is a soldier's shooting range, where he holds a target while his superior soldiers practice shooting. Šveiks smiles, the chaplain drinks, the soldier screams and shoots... The director's goal is to reveal something true about the idiotic existence of each of them.

*using herbal cigarettes without tobacco and nicotine.