The war between the Capulets and the Montagues explodes with the clatter of saucepans being beaten, here a knife is thrown, there a packet of flour bursts. Shakespeare's Verona becomes the domestic battleground of a pizzeria cut up into two clans. Juliet and Romeo find love on the zinc kitchen surfaces, under the starry skies of ustensils, chopping knives, saucepan lids and leaded kitchenware. After Le Maître et Marguerite and Visage de Feu which marked the Avignon Festivals in which they were performed, 34 year-old Oskaras Korsunovas, attacks the societies which are stuck in their secular and unfounded hatred. He denounces the parents who sacrifice their children on the altar of hatred and for their blind stupidity. Korsunovas removes the embellishments and the excessively prudish arrangements in Shakespeare's story which were part of the romantic century. He serves up some Elizabethan violence on a flesh and blood stage, where personified words and choreographic gestures harmonize in universal stage language. He magnifies the tortured but salvational love of the two children, united by the first love marriage in conjugal history. At the beginning of the 1990s, Lithuania left the Soviet regime, Korsunovas was twenty years old and directed his first play. His theatre has continued to investigate the horror and the absurdity of conflict of all kinds. Here he shows again that hatred remains the most widely shared heritage among families and peoples, unless love interferes.
Distribution
cast :Dainius Gavenonis, Darius Gumauskas, Gytis Ivanauskas, Dainius Kazlauskas, Rasa Marazaite, Vaidotas Martinaitis, Dalia Micheleviciute, Egle Mikulionyte, Saulius Mykolaitis, Arunas Sakalauskas, Rytis Saladzius, Rasa Samuolyte, Giedrius Savickas, Remigijus Vilkaitis, Tomas Zaibus
choreography :Vesta Grabstaite
costumes :Jolanta Rimkute
set design :Jurate Paulekaite
music :Antanas Jasenka
lighting:Eugenijus Sabaliauskas
Production
Coproduction :Oskaro Korsunovo Teatras (Vilnius), Festival d'Avignon, Hebbel-Theater (Berlin), Festival “Arts & Ideas” (New Haven), THEOREM (association soutenue par le programme Culture 2000 de l'Union européenne), Fondation de soutien à la culture et au sport lituanienne
Avec l'aide :du ministère de la Culture lituanien
Avec le soutien de :l'Onda pour les surtitres