Date: 03.03 - 06, 2016

Venue: PLA Theater

Hamlet By Lithuania OKT Theatre will be held at the PLA Theater from Mar. 3 to 6, 2016.

DIRECTOR AND SET DESIGNER Oskaras Korsunovas

COSTUME AND SET DESIGNER Agne Kuzmickaite

COMPOSER Antanas Jasenka

LIGHT DESIGNER - Eugenijus Sabaliauskas

SOUND ENGENEER – Alius Bareckas

TECHNICAL DIRECTOR – Mindaugas Repsys

PROPS AND COSTUMER – Edita Martinaviciute

STAGE MANAGER – Malvina Matickiene

SUBTITLING – Akvile Melkunaite

TOURING MANAGER – Audra Zukaityte

Director Oskaras Korsunovas: “We’re in acute need of self-analysis, in order to understand our environment and the decisions we make about living. We may even need to nurture a certain ‘paranoia’ in ourselves, in order to protect ourselves from making fundamental errors in understanding the world. We need to overcome the calm the surrounds us, we need to learn and relearn that it’s an illusion.

That’s why Hamlet is the most topical play for our times. The Hamlet question seems absurd to us at first. Our existence is so comfortable, and the future seems almost guaranteed. But actually the future is to be found inside each of us, and not in political slogans or commercial advertising. We need to tear the veil that hides life from us, we need to rip up our supposedly safe existence. Security can be very dangerous.

Oskaras Koršunovas

Oskaras Koršunovas is a Lithuanian theatre director. Between 1988 and 1994, he studied at the Music Academy of Lithuania and received bachelor's and master's degrees in theatre directing. After graduating, he staged more than 20 performances, first at Academic Drama Theatre of Lithuania, later at Oskaras Koršunovas Theatre (OKT) established by him in 1998. He has created his own personal style and established the concept of his theatre. He focuses on present-day reality, chaos and paradox, absurdity and fragmentation. In 2002 he won the Lithuanian National Prize and the European New Reality Prize.

Oskaras Korsunovas Theatre

Established in 1998, Oskaras Korsunovas Theatre (currently bearing the name of OKT / Vilnius City Theatre) from the outset was determined to remain independent. Such a risk certainly did not come without sacrifices: the newly established theatre did not have a stable source of income, offices, or rehearsal spaces necessary for efficient and creative work; neither did it have a permanent performance venue to present its productions on a regular basis. This daring step was taken for a single reason: OKT firmly decided to cut all relations with the theatrical reality of that time and create a new reality based on a contemporary theatre language.

The theatre took further risks: it began to stage new dramaturgy, which at that time was hardly presented on the Lithuanian stage, thus proclaiming that the times had changed and the contemporary theatre had to reflect the reality of the day.

OKT set out to look for new ways to communicate with the audience, and alongside introduced new-style management. Despite a sharp reaction and controversial opinions, the audience received this brave venture with respect and acknowledgement. One could assert that in the long run the young director’s artistic project won the theatre the name of the most acclaimed and ‘audience-friendly’ act.

Source: en.damai.cn