(Based on the motives of N.V. Gogol's play)Try to understand and interpret what people think about being together in our digital, changing and war-torn times. Why do they need each other? What motivates us to look for a friend and what causes us to break up?
Each of us at different times in our lives has experienced the feeling of loneliness and each of us has tried to fill this void with "something". It's a matter for "someone" and "someone" is sharing their life with another person.
One of the most successful Ukrainian directors, Stas Zhyrkov, searches for answers and explores the themes of loneliness, age, marriage and divorce in the play "Marriage". Based on Nikolai Gogol's play, even after 180 years, the play invites us to look deeper and search for meaning and/or answers.
Why? Because the theater cares! It is not the numbers in the statistics that matter (unfortunately, Lithuania and Latvia are the leaders in divorces, there are 3.1 divorces per 1000 inhabitants), but the topic that is relevant today and TOMORROW. The theater is concerned with the analysis of a time slice, reflection on world events and societal problems, disclosure of topics that may be (un)popular and/or (un)relevant here and now. And their relevance depends only on our desire to understand these topics.
During the performance, you will feel close to what will happen on stage. In the restored five-room apartment, the audience will have the opportunity to feel as if they were there. Such closeness of the viewer is necessary in order to fully immerse oneself in the reality of what is happening.
Thanks to the Lithuanian dramatist Gabrielė Labanauskaitė, the funny and comical characters of the re-created play are brought to the present, more recognizable and close, and their dialogues are more relevant and acute for today's problems.
We promise: some will laugh and smile at the comedy of strange situations during the performance, others will recognize their own life experiences, which are not always so easy to laugh at...