Birutė Kapustinskaitė's play "Therapies" is a painfully open, subtly comic and surprisingly realistic play about the everyday life of people with oncological diseases. It will touch, shake, make you laugh, cry, surprise - but will not leave anyone indifferent.
Sonata, Dalia, Aldona, Rima, Eglė, Marija - six strange lives in one space, but a common destiny that each of them experiences differently: as a gift, as a punishment, a test or a curse...
The viewer watches these women and asks himself the question: what if someone close to me were in their place, what if I? what would i be And maybe what I am - now - because it is already happening, because we are all sick, and it doesn't matter if we are sick in body or spirit. The most important thing is how we learn to accept our illness or someone else's illness and what we become through it.
A disease that frees, cleanses, rewards or condemns? Or do we condemn those who are sick?
In the end, it depends on our own attitude whether we will turn a gloomy hospital ward into a green park...