Credits

Director: Sjaron Minailo – Performing: Jūratė Onaitytė – Lighting Designer: Maarten Warmerdam – Ensemble: Reversio
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Klišys: birbynė – Marek Toporowski: harpsichord, organ – Robert Bachara: baroque violin – Tomasz Frycz: baroque cello

Script author: Sjaron Minailo – Translation: Diana Gancevskaitė, Neringa Klišienė – Assistant Director: Diana Gancevskaitė – Project Coordinator: Neringa Klišienė

Retrotopia

Retrotopia is a music theatre performance for one actress and four musicians. The piece is an examination of a contemporary state-of-humanity in which an irrational constant state of insecurity and growing anxiety results in a fear from the nearing future and a powerful escapist regression to the past. In this musical monologue, legendary actress Jūratė Onaitytė embodies a nameless figure stuck in a time between the past and the future. As she tries to negate between her fear of the coming future and an idealization of the past, her present time becomes more and more unbearable.

Client Reversio Ensemble and the Medynes FestivalServicesLightdesign and SetdesignbyMaarten Warmerdam and Sjaron MinailoYear2019Photographer Dainius Çepla