A One-Person Performance Based on the Works of Fyodor Dostoevsky
Written and Directed by BIRUTĖ MAR
Composer – ANTANAS KUČINSKAS
Stage Designer – KRISTINA NORVILAITĖ
Assistant Director and Choreographer – SIGITA MIKALAUSKAITĖ
Cast:
BIRUTĖ MAR
Duration – 1 hour
The performance is presented in Russian.
Premiere – November 11, 2015, at the International Chamber Theatre Festival Based on the Works of Fyodor Dostoevsky in Staraya Russa, Russia;
April 2, 2016, at the Small Hall of the Lithuanian Russian Drama Theatre.
Characters in the Performance
About
The performance Dostoevsky’s Angels is based on selected excerpts from Fyodor Dostoevsky’s novels The Idiot, The Brothers Karamazov and Demons, the novella White Nights, and the short story The Beggar Boy at Christ’s Christmas Tree. A diverse cast of Dostoevsky’s characters comes to life on stage: Nastenka from White Nights, Prince Myshkin (The Idiot), Nikolai Stavrogin (Demons), Grushenka (The Brothers Karamazov), and the little boy from The Beggar Boy at Christ’s Christmas Tree.nnAccording to Dostoevsky, within every character he created, just as within each of us, lie the “seeds of another world”. It is through these seeds that the foundations of truth and wisdom, conscience and freedom of choice, love and faith exist within us.
“…God took seeds from other worlds and sowed them upon this Earth, and cultivated His garden, and everything that could grow did grow. Yet all that has grown lives and remains alive only through a sense of connection with other mysterious worlds. If that sense weakens or disappears within you, then all that has grown within you also dies…”
/Fyodor Dostoevsky, The Brothers Karamazov /
Photos from the Performance
Photos by D. Matvejevas
Awards
- Best Actress Award and Audience Choice Award at the 19th International Chamber Theatre Festival Based on the Works of Fyodor Dostoevsky in Veliky Novgorod and Staraya Russa, Russia (2015).
- Grand Prix at the International Theatre Festival “Druskininkai Summer Theatre Crossroads”, Lithuania (2017).
- Best Actress Award at the International Theatre Festival “Belaya Vezha” in Brest, Belarus (2017)