After two years of activity, Marius Ivaškevičius will finish his work as a playwright at the Lithuanian National Drama Theater. When the direction of the theater's creative activity changes and new artistic directors start working, the duties of the playwright become redundant. M. Ivaškevičius will no longer work in the theater from 2023. in March, according to a press release.
"I thank Maris Ivaškevičius for his work in the theater and I hope that we will find other formats for successful cooperation in the future. It is natural that when the theater's artistic direction and artistic director changes, so does the theater's creative team. The management of the tandem of Oskars Koršunovas and Marius Ivaškevičius for the whole creative program of the theater is taken over by the new group of artistic directors. This is a consistent change, successive stages of theater development," says LNDT manager Martynas Budraitis.
M. Ivaškevičius started working as a playwright at the Lithuanian National Drama Theater in 2021. in January of this year at the initiative of Oskar Korshunov. Over the course of two years, at the invitation of M. Ivaškevičius, LNDT performances were created by several foreign directors. These are Grzegorz Jarzyna, who created the play "Soliaris 4", Jan Fabre, who directed the play "Night Writer" and Iwan Wyrypayev, whose premiere play "Girti" was presented to the theater audience last week.
Also, M. Ivaškevičius presented the plays "Error 403", "I had a cousin", "Two garages" of the program of the "Vaba Lava" theater curated by him in Tallinn. M. Ivaškevičius curated the 2022 the program of the dramaturgy festival "Versmė" and selected the plays of Ukrainian playwrights.
