AUSTERLITZ
According to the book by W. G. Sebald.
Director, author of the staging, set designer: Krystian Lupa
Costume designer: Piotr Skiba
Author of video projections: Mikas Žukauskas
Composer: Arturas Bumšteinas
The texts of W. G. Sebald's book "Austerlitz" translated from German by Rūta Jonynaitė are used in the performance. Director's assistants: Tauras Čižas, Maksym Teteruk
Actors: Sergejus Ivanovas, Valentinas Masalskis, Viktorija Kuodytė, Jovita Jankelaitytė, Matas Dirginčius, Danutė Kuodytė, Girius Liuga
The play "Austerlitz" at our theatre is the second production in Lithuania by the Polish theatre visionary Krystian Lupa (following the performance "Heroes' Square" created at the Lithuanian National Drama Theatre), which has won three prestigious "Golden Cross of the Stage" awards, representing our country's theatrical culture at several important international theatre festivals.
ABOUT THE PLAY
The events of "Austerlitz" span six decades, from 1939 to the end of the century. The action takes place in Antwerp, Wales, Oxford, London, Paris, Prague, Terezín, Marienbad... Historical events have concluded by the beginning of the narration. Sebald describes almost the last three decades of the 20th century, during which random encounters between the narrator and the solitary wanderer Austerlitz took place in different European cities. Until he became an adult, Austerlitz knew neither his real name nor his origins, nor who his real parents were. When he was a the five-year-old boy, Austerlitz was sent by his mother, travelling from Prague to London just before being deported to the Terezín concentration camp. His father disappeared without a trace. Austerlitz was adopted under another name and grew up in Wales, studied at Oxford, and settled in London after his studies, engaging in research on 20th-century architecture. He lived without memory until a moment of recollection struck him at Liverpool Street Station, where he had once been brought by train. Then he embarked on a quest to find his childhood home and parents. However, returning to his home in Prague only intensified Austerlitz's sense of isolation, and the search for his parents' traces alone gives meaning to his life...