For the primary time in Vilnius – the premiere of the Klaipėda Youth Theater “Being Alice” | Tradition

Balancing on the border between actuality and creativeness, the viewers of the efficiency might have the chance to see a brand new type of Alice’s implausible dream world. The play involves the stage of the capital’s theater for the primary time – on Could 14 at 7 p.m. Artwork printing home, Vilnius.

We’ve all encountered Alice from Wonderland in a single kind or one other – the well-known work of mathematician and logic professor Lewis Carroll “Alice in Wonderland” has taken on essentially the most numerous kinds throughout its 160 years of existence. Alice’s story has been instructed in musicals, up to date operas, performs, movies and ballet productions. On this work, the retelling of a childhood dream turns into an attention-grabbing fable that transports you to the world of fantasy, the symbols of that are meaningfully revealed to representatives of all generations.

Director D. Girauldon says that the objective of the efficiency “Being Alice” is to not change into simply one other new model of the world-famous story on the theater stage. “What fascinates me regarding Lewis Carroll’s work is his capability to mirror a dream-like existence, to create, as Shakespeare stated, the stuff that desires are fabricated from.” I’m excited by exploring the refined distance that exists between phrases and their a number of meanings. This play of meanings reveals our most intimate truths, which, like reflections in a mirror, can generally be merciless, however all the time stay majestic,” says the Frenchman, who’s working with the KJT troupe for the primary time.

Theater photograph/Scene from the play “Being Alice”

The dramaturgical foundation of the efficiency “Being Alice” will include excerpts from L. Carroll’s works “Alice in Wonderland”, “Alice within the Mirror Kingdom” and “Snark’s Hunt”, fragments of the creator’s letters, poetic and philosophical texts. “Each scene and character, each phrase spoken on the stage opens the door to a world of thriller and magic. In joyful chaos, in a shifting field of curiosities, the actors, like artists in a workshop, will settle for the challenges and fixed metamorphoses of Alice’s universe permeated by desires”, says director D. Girauldon concerning the efficiency.

Director Didier Girauldon is a theater and opera director, actor, producer and educator who has been concerned in worldwide initiatives for over 20 years in France, England, the US, Ukraine, the Czech Republic, Italy, Denmark, Sweden, Switzerland, Scotland and Canada. As a multidisciplinary artist, he explores collective creativity, specializing in the dynamics of motion, textual content and rhythmicity.