November 16 12 o'clock and on the 17th 12 and 14 p.m. The second premiere of this season will take place in the Small Hall of the Vilnius theater "Lėlė" - the children's puppet show "Duck, Death and Tulip" based on the book of the same name by the German writer and artist Wolf Erlbruch. The director of the play is the puppeteer Jūratė Trimakaitė, the artist is Cerise Guyon, the composer is Thomas Demay, the lighting artist is Felix Bataillou, the actors in the play are: Lijana Muštašvili, Asta Stankūnaitė, Deivis Sarapinas, Elvyra Piškinaitė, Erika Gaidauskaitė, Sigita Mikalauskaitė.
In the picture book "Duck, Death and Tulip", published in 2007, Wolf Erlbruch touches on the unusual but very important theme of the end of life in children's literature. One day, the duck is haunted by a strange premonition, which is death. These two creatures - Duck and Death, who is next to her because of all the evil (if something bad happens) - talk about existential topics, share their strange thoughts, engage in various cheerful activities and gradually become friends. The author of the book in 2006. was awarded the Hans Christian Andersen medal, and in 2016 won the most important international award for children's literature - the Astrid Lindgren Prize. "Antis, Mirtis ir tulpė" has been translated into more than 20 languages, and in 2018, thanks to the translator Rūta Jonynaitė, it became available to Lithuanian readers as well.
According to the director of the performance, puppeteer Jūratė Trimakaitė: "When we talk about death, we usually talk about life, its value. Therefore, when staging this performance, I wanted to show death as a natural natural process, cyclical, change necessary for life. After all, if we didn't complicate everything ourselves, we would go through certain things much easier, we would have much less phobias... And what I like most about Erlbruch's book is that it doesn't give any answers, after all, when we really talk about this topic, we can only consider and discuss."
Jūratė Trimakaitė, former actress of "Lėlė" theater, in 2014. graduated from the prestigious Charleville-Mezieres National School of Puppet Theater in France. As a director, the artist began her creative activity with the play "Inevitable Beasts", which, presented as a diploma thesis in France, was immediately noticed and invited to participate in various international theater festivals. in 2015 J. Trimakaitė staged the play "Kas tu?" in the Klaipėda Puppet Theater in 2016. "Death, I do not believe in it" in Amiens, the French city where he currently lives. in 2017 J. Trimakaitė introduced herself to the audience of the Vilnius theater "Lėlė" as a director with the performance "Kryptis", nominated for the Golden Stage Cross.
The artist created all her performances with the same artist Cerise Guyon and composer Thoms Demay: "I think it is very important for a director to find people close to him who have a similar taste and vision... I like that Cerise doesn't do anything just because that's the way it is beautiful or fashionable. Her ideas come from the dramatic action, she looks for what helps to tell the story in the best possible way. And the composer Thomas Demay attracted me with his musical talent from the very first performance..." - says J. Trimakaitė.
