GHETTO

Two-act play (Age limit 16+)

Didžioji scena

Friday, June 21st, 2024

Author: Joshua Sobol

Director: Gintaras Varnas

Set designer: Gintaras Makarevičius

Composer: Anatolijus Šenderovas

Costume designer: Aleksandra Jacovskytė

Video artist: Kornelijus Jaroševičius

Lighting artist: Vladimiras Šerstabojevas

Playwrights: Daiva Čepauskaitė ir Gintaras Varnas

Actors: Sigitas Šidlauskas, Dainius Svobonas, Mantas Zemleckas, Jovita Jankelaitytė, Liubomiras Laucevičius, Gytis Ivanauskas, Ričardas Vitkaitis, Vaidas Maršalka, Saulius Čiučelis, Tomas Erbrėderis, Gintautas Bejeris, Albinas Budnikas,  Martyna Gedvilaitė, Arnas Ašmonas, Gytis Laskovas, Karolina Elžbieta Mikolajūnaitė, Deividas Rajunčius, Pijus Narijauskas, Liucija Rukšnaitytė, Audronė Paškonytė, Dominyka Budinavičiūtė, Skaistė Grašytė, Mindaugas Gargasas, Rokas Lažaunykas, Boy with violin:. Jurgis Bajoras ir Jonas Venckūnas, Musicians: Darius Krapikas, Asta Markevičienė, Ugnė Petrauskaitė, Laimonas Salijus, Gintarė Kaminskaitė, Tadas Vilčinskas

Duration – 3 hours 50 minutes (with intermission)

The performance is showed with ENGLISH SURTITLES all the time.

World War II. Nazi-occupied Lithuania has become a death trap for Jews. Men, women, and children are imprisoned in ghettos and the only way out leads to a pit in the ground. “Ghetto” is a story of how people imprisoned in the Vilna Ghetto came up with a unique idea – establishing a ghetto theater, which even in the face of death became their beacon of inner strength and resistance against the Nazi. This is a drama about their collective fight for physical and spiritual survival, even when they knew that the enemy was a hundred times stronger. “Ghetto” also tells the story of those who were holding the guns and trading shoes of their victims among themselves. Never before had Lithuania seen so many pits in the ground and so many spare shoes as in 1941.