OKT / Vilnius City Theatre: “Weddings” | 10-Year Anniversary (Directed by Oskaras Koršunovas)

Bertolt Brecht’s play is a short grotesque story where absolutely everything is overcharged, ruined, and destroyed: both furniture, and people, and their relationships. And the climax happens during the wedding feast. “Bertolt Brecht’s ‘The Wedding of the Burghers’ (this is the real title of the play) speaks about the moral hypocrisy of society. Essentially, it revolves around the revealed pre-wedding loss of the bride’s chastity. We discuss in broader terms in the performance. Not only about hypocritical morality and chastity but also about the decomposition of customs, the absurd deformation of what once were the most sacred things in human existence: weddings, funerals, the sensations and traditions of the cosmic cycle. Of course, a very Lithuanian specificity is revealed. This is the confusion of a villager coming to live in the city, even the inability to become a so-called bourgeois and, of course, a complete lack of understanding of the globalization processes influencing him in one way or another. First and foremost, it is a good comedy, like a mirror facing us or our loved ones. Here we can truly laugh, if not at ourselves, then at least at the neighbor, and this tradition is indeed immortal for us. Any laughter is good if it does not arise from anger. The performance is very open, with a lot of improvisation. It constantly incorporates the latest societal and political issues, which is why it constantly changes. The performance is open to the audience. Thus, it never repeats and is different every time. So, if you enjoy this Dionysian experience with a Lithuanian white mixture, you can confidently come back again and again. Based on Bertolt Brecht’s play “The Wedding of the Burghers” Directed by – Oskaras Koršunovas Cast: Young Man – Karolis Vilkas / Džiugas Grinys Young Woman – Žygimantė Elena Jakštaitė Husband – Kęstutis Cicėnas / Oskar Wygonowski Wife – Augustė Pociūtė Young Woman’s Sister – Greta Petrovskytė / Taura Kvietinskaitė Young Man’s Friend – Lukas Malinauskas Young Man – Oskar Wygonowski / Martynas Mockevičius Father – Artiom Rybakov Mother – Kamilė Petruškevičiūtė Buy a ticket