Unconventional
Interactive performance Eyes is the fourth joint work by director Mantas Jančiauskas and playwright Rimantas Ribačiauskas on the Lithuanian theatre stage. Having previously been recognized for documentary and site-specific theatre productions, the creators this time turn to themes of public security, civic resilience, and pervasive surveillance. Eyes explores the boundary between external and internal threats and asks what kind of reflection of ourselves we can see in external dangers.
The chamber opera "The Sailor" is based on the only play by Portuguese writer Fernando Pessoa. It is a meditation on the nature of dreams and reality. The opera tells the story of three sisters keeping vigil over the urn of their fourth sister, who has died. To pass the time, they share memories of past moments they may never have experienced and dreams, one of which is about a sailor who finds himself on an uninhabited island. Inspired by these stories, the sisters question the nature of reality, death, and dreams: perhaps they themselves are just illusions of the imagination of an unknown dreamer?
