The creator, who’s on the helm of the nation’s solely youngsters’s present affairs present, will quickly current her theatrical debut – open readings of the play “Thunderbolt Eats a Sandwich”.
The readings of Urtė Sėjūnaitė’s play “Thunderbolt eats a sandwich” will happen on June 27. 6 p.m. within the Museum of Lithuanian Theatre, Music and Cinema. Actors Aurelijus Pocius, Digna Kulionytė, Saulius Ambrazevičius, Inga Juškevičiūtė, Džiugas Gvozdinskas, Anastasija Marchenkaitė will participate within the readings, based on a press launch.
– Urte, your mother and father – theater and tv actors Mindaugas Sėjūnas and Jurga Kalvaitytė. Did you all the time know you’d be within the theater too? Have been you a type of youngsters who grew up behind the scenes of the theater?
– Sure, I actually spent loads of time behind the scenes. I do know my mother and father took me to the theater following I was nonetheless in a wheelchair. Again then, whereas they had been performing on stage, the make-up artists of the theater stayed with me. I used to be a relatively modest little one, I used to be fearful when my mom, leaving me with my colleagues, went out to placed on make-up. However I went to the theater each time I obtained an opportunity. From a younger age, I used to observe each youngsters’s and grownup performs, during which I didn’t perceive something. I keep in mind that I went to the LNDT play “Cinderella”, during which my mom acted, virtually as many instances because it was proven. I actually wished to offer one thing to my mom following the efficiency, however I did not have the chance to purchase something, so I simply dragged issues from house to the stage – candles, opened packets of sweets.
After I grew up, I made a decision to enter performing, however I did not. Then I obtained distracted for a number of years – I studied images, movie course. I’m comfortable as a result of my current research have allowed me to strive the artwork of performing and perceive that this isn’t the career for me. However the theater was nonetheless insanely enticing. Then LMTA introduced that Oskars Koršunovas would take the theater directing course and there have been now not any doubts.
– You speak very properly regarding your childhood. Which of the values you introduced once more then accompany you to this present day? – in creativity and private life?
I can not simply romanticize childhood, it is pure that there was every part. Nonetheless, probably the most vivid recollections are exceptionally stunning. My childhood was very fascinating and colourful – my mother and father and I traveled lots, performed, however on the identical time, we communicated very equally, I used to be inspired to precise my ideas, to create, to not be afraid to open up. My mother and father, by their instance, contaminated me with a fantastic love for books, in fact, theater, artwork on the whole. I began writing very early and felt very supported to take action. On the whole, mother and father occupy an necessary place in my life, this relationship is crucial for me, and I all the time really feel their presence and assist, irrespective of what number of kilometers separate us. So me, the way in which I’m at this time, and my values are very a lot associated to the way in which I used to be raised. Freedom, assist, teamwork, and duty are crucial to me each in creativity and in my private life. I consciously strive to not put stress on others and I do not attempt to change a single individual, as a result of we’re all very fascinating. These are classes I realized from my mother and father, a method or one other.
– Do you continue to have room in your internal little one?
– Till now, I do not totally perceive that I’m formally an “grownup”. Each time I keep in mind that I’ve to pay taxes or make an appointment with the dentist myself, I get misplaced. Possibly it would by no means change once more? I already take a look at myself as a toddler as a separate person who I wish to hug. I’ve loads of that little individual in me and I am actually comfortable regarding it.
– What was the start of your skilled path?
– It’s troublesome to speak in regards to the starting, as a result of I really feel that I’m nonetheless in it. I’m glad that now the directing career is increasing, masking extra areas, altering. For me, directing is the power to ignite different folks along with your thought in order that it turns into frequent. Each actors and administrators studied in our course, so we collaborated from the very starting. Very naturally, I found folks with whom it was good to be collectively and with a great variety of them we proceed to create in varied kinds. Now my inventive subject has expanded as if I create a present for kids, I write lots, however, in fact, my love for the theater nonetheless occupies a really massive half.
– Earlier than turning to tv, you additionally labored in kindergartens and academic establishments. In your eyes, what are fashionable youngsters like? What do you envy them, what may you be taught from them?
I would not wish to generalize all the technology. Particularly as a result of I deal solely with youngsters residing in Vilnius. Like ours, their technology might be very various and colourful. I wish to be taught braveness, the power to precise my ideas very clearly, leisure and freedom from her.
Relating to youngsters at this time, I hear an internal voice telling me to say one thing regarding good expertise, however do I’ve the suitable? Each I and the common nag in regards to the dependancy of the youthful technology to “scrolling” themselves “scrolliname” greater than youngsters. I’ve met a couple of elementary faculty pupil who nonetheless does not have a cellphone, I’ve met youngsters who’ve very clear boundaries and agreements with their mother and father and stick with them, and youngsters who wish to sit on the laptop 24/7. As with all generations, this one has all of it, however that is not a foul factor.
– Did not you get criticism, lack of assist once you mentioned you wished to create for kids? Is it nonetheless wild pondering to create for kids – fearful?
– A really advanced, mandatory and broad query. I’ll begin with the truth that it appears to me that creativity for kids is probably the most critical factor. Whereas learning within the final yr, I spotted that I wished to create for kids, however I used to be very removed from them. I feel that this usually occurs – creators begin staging performances, writing books for kids, though they haven’t any level of contact with them. Then the best miscommunication happens. In an effort to perceive who these youngsters are, following the academy I labored in varied kindergartens and faculties in Vilnius, main excursions for kids. Now I work in a youngsters’s present, in order that they usually go to us.
I feel that the angle that performances for kids are much less critical than for adults actually exists. Nonetheless, it in all probability additionally exists within the minds of people that create for kids. I’d name it a form of collective advanced, which I typically wrestle with myself. The quantity of exhibits for kids in state theaters, or relatively the dearth of that quantity, solely proves that the issue exists. It is very unusual to me, as a result of if we do not develop the viewers of the theater, then who will come to it in twenty years? I’d not dare to divide theater into critical or frivolous, however I’d dare to say that creating a top quality work for kids (not essentially a efficiency) requires loads of creativeness, empathy and sincerity. Immediately’s youngsters sense lies in a short time, particularly when they’re addressed too childish or making an attempt to please. Due to this fact, creating for kids might be very fascinating – you might be compelled to return into an absolute confrontation with your self, and there you uncover loads of lies, garbage and “bitter” stereotypes.
– Who and why turn out to be the topic, theme, and motives of your work? When creating this play, did you concentrate on your internal little one or did you attempt to adapt, to enchantment a bit of to the kids of this technology?
– My purpose is to speak with the younger technology by means of varied inventive kinds. My play Thunder Eats a Sandwich is without doubt one of the makes an attempt to do that. Formally, I say that the play is geared toward elementary faculty college students, however a toddler just isn’t the identical as a toddler, so the age group might be a lot wider. Within the play, the Lithuanian god Thunder by chance enters at this time’s Vilnius. Right here he bonds with two youngsters who introduce Thunder to the trendy world. Whereas touring round Vilnius, they meet increasingly more mythological creatures, as a result of they’re in search of the place Thunder has disappeared. Lithuanian gods and goddesses encounter modernity and be taught to be in it – they experience a trolleybus for the primary time, take fashionable expertise of their arms, see visitors lights, style sandwiches. The query is raised – can traces of the previous Lithuanian tradition be present in some fashionable actions? What are these actions? Possibly historical traditions are nonetheless mirrored in our on a regular basis life? Instance – why can we now depart cookies and milk for Santa Claus, whereas the traditional Lithuanians used to go away bread, milk and beer for the kooks? How have traditions modified and tailored to at this time’s folks and their habits? On the finish of the story, the previous and the current stay intertwined and be taught to co-exist in a brand new world.
Whereas writing, I considered myself as a toddler, and within the current, in addition to in regards to the youngsters I encounter in on a regular basis life. I attempted to not hit, however relatively to adapt considerably. Naturally, when writing regarding at this time’s Vilnius, I additionally wrote regarding good applied sciences. I wished to speak regarding what’s recognizable, comprehensible and fascinating for contemporary youngsters, however on the identical time I attempted to supply a brand new standpoint.
– The plot of your play takes place in Vilnius. Is that this metropolis near you?
– I’ve a really robust reference to Vilnius. I grew up right here and made a acutely aware alternative to remain. After I was a youngster, I’d typically escape from courses and browse books on the Barbican. There I learn Kunčin’s “Tula” for the primary time and I felt not solely a fantastic artist, but in addition an actual Vilnius lady. I actually prefer to stroll and discover varied districts of Vilnius. Within the previous city, I uncover courtyards that I’ve not seen till now. If I see an open gate – I can not resist the temptation to enter. For me, Vilnius is a really mystical metropolis. There may be a lot historical past right here and it’s so a lot enjoyable to get to comprehend it. For instance, each time I cross by the Cathedral, I keep in mind that the previous stream of Vilnelė used to circulate right here. Realizing the historic factors of curiosity provides a distinct perspective to native locations that may mistakenly appear very acquainted and even boring.
– The play shall be learn by creators of the younger technology who’ve obtained a very powerful theater awards. What sort of relationship do you attempt to create with the actors?
– I sincerely love and respect the folks I work with. A robust connection and belief in creativity are crucial to me, so I’m glad that we regularly come throughout college students at work. Actor Saulius Ambrozaičius and I just lately calculated that we created our first pupil work collectively even eight years in the past, and at this time we proceed to work collectively on a present for kids. I’ve to confess that I’ve no strategies of working with actors, no less than at this stage of my life I depend on instinct. It is very important me that there isn’t any pressure through the rehearsals, that everybody has house to precise themselves and that the thought burns. The whole lot else will come naturally.
– You your self labored with the administrators O. Koršunov, L. Kutkaita, and contributed to the manufacturing of a number of performs. How do you see the sector of Lithuanian theater at this time – is it an open, nurturing house for a younger creator?
– Lithuanian theater might be very various and vigorous, so it’s pure that it’s always altering. Crises come, adopted by booms. Fixed transformations are happening. That is excellent for a spur-of-the-moment artwork sphere like theater. And it’s not simple for a younger developer in any subject. On this case, I am not even speaking regarding inventive points, however relatively in regards to the easiest human wants. Our nation nonetheless lacks respect for artists, which also needs to be expressed financially. A younger director, like everybody, additionally wants to purchase washing powder. And there’s all the time one thing to be comfortable regarding. For instance, I’m very comfortable that I used to be capable of write this play because of the Lithuanian Tradition Council. On this means, many younger creators get their first likelihood to step into the theater world. And on the whole, the theater is an extremely fascinating place, a diminished mannequin of the world, because of which you’ll be able to expertise dozens of lives whereas residing just one.
– Area of interest of youngsters’s performances – has anybody already managed to fill it out?
– I’ve loads of respect for “Theatre of Freaks”, which virtually stood alone within the reverberating house for therefore a few years. And now, it appears, the area of interest of youngsters’s performances is slowly and thoroughly beginning to refill. I feel it is rather necessary that state theaters have a transparent, robust and logically formulated repertoire of youngsters’s performances. And I am not speaking regarding one or two performances. I wish to see youngsters’s performs each weekend. This might turn out to be a pleasant household custom. I actually respect and assist each director who decides to create for kids. I feel that if there are extra youngsters’s performances, there shall be a stronger dialogue with the kids themselves, following which the performances will solely get higher.
– Thanks for the dialog.
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