BABEL- Dieter Topp, german journalist: Bravo to the actors, many thanks to Alytus Theatre, Lithuania

Alytus Theater (Lithuania)
NOT CHILDREN’S GAME
Whooow of a festival day

Fausto Paravidino’s story about the illness of the „Family M” has been for Italy, what Herkus Kuncius drama NO CHILDREN’S PLAY stands for Lithuania. Where the one still describes life and survival in gray suburbs of Italian big cities, the Lithuanian dramatist goes one step ahead.

Kuncius and director Albertas Vidziunas also take a family as pars pro toto in order to expose on a wide level human togetherness. From the household level to the universal dimension in a block of flats, mercilessly open and taboo-breaking language of the reality of a „modern family” in Lithuania in magically realistic, caricature grotesque images.

Parallels to Marius von Mayenburg’s play „Fireface” come in individual scenes. Similarly to Robert Wilson, individuality was taken from the characters for the sake of generalization by partly white or rigid faces.
The writer sees himself in an international ambiance, but knows how to go beyond and find his own statement in obscene, taboo-breaking language, supported by a skilfully strict directing (and very good actors!) in a stylistically simple yet visually stunning stage set and video (Arturas Simonis).

Kuncius has banished the world of Paravidino and Mayenburg into the past and describes a highly up-to-date social level in the digital age.

Bravo to the actors, many thanks to Alytus Theatre.

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Written by Dieter Topp – german journalist, theater networking specialist, member in Board of Babel Festival

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