“What’s next?”
We’re asking in the hope of getting a specific answer. However, the perception that there is no answer to this question soon comes. This contradiction becomes the starting point of the play “bowel.
The performance and the concept of the play specially written for it were based on the theatre principles of the famous French theatre master Antonino Artaud (1896–1948), his creative method, and the first play, “Jet of Blood” (French: “Jet de Sang”). A play by a French artist, never staged in Lithuania, presents a fantastic course of creation and destruction (self-destruction) of man and the world. Meanwhile, Naubertas Jasinskas examines the impermanence of modern human identity.
Jasinskas' play was created with the help of various images of a modern person and family. Images are inspired by the works of Artaud, Pasolini, Carse, Kennedy, Ross, Coel and Sabolius.
Performance "bowel" analyzes the interaction between identity and the daily influences that form it. Monotony and routine are examined through images and sensations. These states become the basis of the action; the characters of the play experience them in a surreal comic world. The audience is invited to change the perspective we perceive ourselves, to reject the limited perceptions of meaning and purpose raised or imposed by ourselves.
The performance will take place in English and other languages.
Author and director – Naubertas Jasinskas
Translation into Lithuanian – Marius Povilas Elijas Martinenko
Video artist – Ričard Žigis
Composer – Gintaras Sodeika
Scenographers – random heroes
Light artist – Dainius Urbonis
Costume artist – Dovilė Gudačiauskaitė
Poster – Roberta Grigaliūnaitė
Actors – Alvydė Pikturnaitė, Povilas Jatkevičius, Jolanta Dapkūnaitė, Vainius Sodeika
Producer – Kaunas city chamber theatre
