The play "Loki" created at the Lithuanian National Drama Theater, directed by Aukasz Twarkowski, has already visited the spectators of Toruń, Warsaw and Madrid. The creators of the play, who recently returned from the Spanish capital, are counting on the positive Spanish reviews and are preparing for the performance at the Lithuanian National Opera and Ballet Theater on May 8.
The play, which combines three tragic stories about the fragile line between crazy love and hate, triumphed at the "Golden Crosses of the Stage" awards last year - it won even 4 of the most important prizes. "Lokis", which stands out for its extremely modern stage solutions, has already managed to gather a circle of loyal fans who watch the performance several times.
Due to the reconstruction of the Lithuanian National Drama Theater "Lokis" in 2018. November 6 was shown in the opera and ballet theater, where it attracted a full hall of interested people. During the show, there was a "Phase Zone" in the orchestra pit, where the audience who bought tickets could dance with the actors in the second part of the performance. The "Fan Zone" will also be open on May 8. during display.
While waiting for this performance, we invite you to familiarize yourself with excerpts from the Madrid theater critics' reviews, translated into Lithuanian.
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Of all the premieres of the last festival held in November, in my opinion, the best was "Loki" by the Polish director Lukasz Twarkowski - due to its overflowing freedom in combining languages, the impeccable work of the team of the Lithuanian National Drama Theater, the energy conveyed in decibels and the ability to tighten the string connecting the audience. And no, I didn't like Medea de Simon Stone, sorry. It is necessary to urgently reconsider what myth means today, instead of sticking to the stories told to us by the classics, supplementing them only with modern costumes and giving an excessive dose of hysteria to the main character.
Ílvaros Vicente, 2018 Rewind. Scene summary, Godot magazine, 2018/12/26.
It was very interesting to see "The Bear" in the context of the "Festival de Oto η" (Autumn Festival), an ambitious and grandiose work brought to us by Lukasz Twarkowski, considered one of the most important representatives of contemporary theater and the enfant terrible of Polish theater. The result is a three-and-a-half-hour performance in which the literary, fictional and real realities are replaced, and in their creation dialogue is woven between various other disciplines - metatheatre, live audiovisual, music, performance, documentary theater& And all this in order to be combined into a single whole, which uses all possible primary means, and which dazzles with its potency and excess; including the power to lift everything visible on the stage&
Hugo Įlvarez, "Bear", or to be blinded by technological excess (or not), Journal "Butaca en Anfiteatro"
Lukas Tarkwoskis, whose performance "Loki" is another proof that modern productions should be brought to the stage with the highest possible technological quality that they could possibly need, starts such a current trajectory of considerations.
Antonio Herníndez, "The 36th Madrid Festival de Oto η: a journey into the XNUMXst century", Revista Actores Magazine
The aesthetics of the video clip are still not used for the most dramatic scenes, and that is good - so the story is not forgotten, and continues with the help of dialogues and phrases that provoke the surreal mass. Loki, the trickster and cunning jester of northern mythology, is undoubtedly the inspiration for this macabre artifact. The essential point is to capture a complex and dynamic reality without sacrificing consistent sophistication, where truth requires our critique and ability to synthesize, bearing in mind that the material we process is often deceptive. In my opinion, of all the last enfant terribles who visited us today, Aukasz Twarkowski is the only one worthy of this description.
Angel Esteban Monje, Loki: A Hyperbolic Artifact About the Murder of Marie Trintignant in a Grand Video and Performance Play
Translated from Spanish by Alexandra Bondarev
The performance "Bear", dir. Aukasz Twarkowski, in the near future - May 8. 18.30:XNUMX p.m., will be shown at the Lithuanian National Opera and Ballet Theatre.
