based on Franz Kafka’s short story

The Metamorphosis 

Reżyseria: Oliver Frljić

Lietuvos Nacionalinis Dramos Teatra (Vilnius, Lithuania)

Friday, 31.05.2024 | at 5pm
Saturday, 1.06.2024 | at 5pm

Teatr im. Wilama Horzycy (Main Auditorium), pl. Teatralny 1

Earphones: Polish, English   

Attention: smoke is used in the performance.
The performance is intended for adult audiences.


How, when and why do we stop seeing the Other as fully human? The story of Gregor Zamza, the insect-turned-man, raises the question of the limits of our compassion for the Other: how the process of identification is carried out, how the Other is constructed, and whether we can accept the Other as a part of humanity. In The Trial Kafka foresaw the totalitarian ideologies that were soon to engulf Europe, as well as the nature of that war. When Russia waged war against Ukraine, it was said that this war would initiate the next phase of European history. Therefore, it may well be that we, Europeans in the 2020s – like Kafka, who lived through World War I – will have been witnessing watershed events that will usher in a new world order. 25.671 successfully featured at the Kontakt festival (2014, Gazeta Wyborcza – Toruń award for the most insightful diagnosis of contemporary reality).

Premiere: 31.05.2023


Directed and Adapted by Oliver Frljić
Set design and Video: Igor Pauška
Costume design: Morta Nakaitė
Lighting design: Dainius Urbonis
Director’s assistant: Augustas Gornatkevičius
Dramaturgy assistant, Translator: Eglė Poškevičiūtė
Producer: Agnė Pulokaitė

Performers:
Rasa Samuolytė
Rimantė Valiukaitė,
Gediminas Rimeika,
Aistė Zabotkaitė,
Algirdas Gradauskas,
Kęstutis Cicėnas,
Marius Repšys,|
Rytis Saladžius,
Augustė Šimulynaitė,
Vaidilė Juozaitytė,
Jūratė Vilūnaitė (voice),
Toma Vaškevičiūtė (voice),
Mira the dog

Running Time: 1h 30 (no interval)

Photography: Dmitrij Matvejev

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