2003 » Lithuania » National Exhibition
Curator: | Helmutas Šabasevičius |
Lithuania
The contemporary Lithuanian theatre underwent some quite spectacular changes in the last decade - the constant and some-what stiff- landscape of the state theatres was enriched by the number of non-governmental theatres, looking for their place not only in the context of the contemporary Lithuanian culture, but in the space of the new and multicultural Europe. They are wan-dering through the labyrinth of new challenges and difficulties of the world, still believing to discover the paradise of the theatre at its end. In the changing context of the contemporary Lithuanian Theatre, the works of the stage designer Júraté Paulékaité is becoming more and more distinct. Hear works of the last decade of the millennium were connected with different directors of the Lithuanian contemporary theatre, but the most essential in her creative carrier was the meeting with the director Oskaras Koršunovas, the most interesting Lithuanian director of the young generation. She became even a co-founder of the independ-ent "Oskaras Koršunovas Theatre", and all her most important works are connected with this company.The recent works of J. Paulékaité ranges from the contemporary ballet performances to the adaptation of well known works of literature the first half of tho XX contury, from tho contemporary Western and Lithuanian drama to classical Greek tragedy.