The performance is in Lithuanian with English surtitles.<\/p>\n
The second premiere of the Youth Theatre\u2019s 62nd season is \u201cThe Marriage\u201d (\u201c\u015alub\u201d) by Witold Gombrowicz, a Polish modernist, directed by Adomas Ju\u0161ka.<\/strong><\/p>\n The play unfolds in the dream of Henryk, a soldier at the front. Returning home, he finds his world distorted and ruined. Through a wedding, he tries to restore order to himself and his world, but the conflict between the individual and form remains. \u201cHenryk creates the dream, the dream creates Henryk, events create themselves, people create one another,\u201d says Ju\u0161ka. The dream reveals the horror of dehumanisation and the power of human creativity.<\/p>\n Witold Gombrowicz<\/strong> (1904\u20131969), a Polish writer of Lithuanian descent, was a major postwar Polish \u00e9migr\u00e9 writer. His writing combines philosophy, irony, grotesque and a critique of tradition. His works include \u201cFerdydurke\u201d, \u201cTrans-Atlantyk\u201d, \u201cCosmos\u201d and the plays \u201cIvona, Princess of Burgundy\u201d, \u201cThe Marriage\u201d and \u201cOperetta\u201d. Begun during the war in Argentina, \u201cThe Marriage\u201d was published in Spanish in 1948 and in Poland in 1957. Translations follow his revised text.<\/p>\n Adomas Ju\u0161ka<\/strong> (b. 1996), a student of Eimuntas Nekro\u0161ius and a graduate of the Lithuanian Academy of Music and Theatre, made his debut at the Youth Theatre with \u201c\u0160vejk\u201d. His work is known for poetic imagery, symbolism, rhythm and atmosphere. He won two Golden Stage Cross awards for Best Director, for \u201cThe West Pier\u201d (2023) and \u201cThe Melancholy of Resistance\u201d (2025).<\/p>","protected":false},"featured_media":238432,"template":"","categories":[7],"tags":[],"ticket-vendor":[],"class_list":["post-238431","event","type-event","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-spektakliai"],"acf":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"aioseo_head":"\n\t\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t