Feast

“Although the topic of the performance is disability, finally it fades before the eyes of both the creative team and the audience. They see only the most empowered and free people who celebrate their own existence, their birth, their very life”, – Director K. Gudmonaitė recounts on the “Feast”, the performance which has been created together with the disabled people.

The disability still hides in the shadows of the social sphere. Ability to understand it requires the closer proximity of both the theatre and the audience, analysing it and trying to hear what the disabled themselves think about the phenomenon of disability. The performers seek to lay bare the concept of normality and to question the possibility of the diversity in human existence, as well as that in human sensations and experiences.

According to the official statistics, the disabled in Lithuania make up around 9 % of the whole population – almost every tenth resident of our country. However, the majority of the people who are not disabled baldly state in the poll that there are no disabled people in Lithuania at all.

Kamilė Gudmonaitė (b. 1992) is a graduate of the theater directing course at the Lithuanian Academy of Music and Theater (led by Gintaras Varnas), vocalist and songwriter of the musical duo Kamanių Šilelis. She debuted with the play A Dream, based on the play by August Strindberg, which won the first prize at the theatre festival in Spoleto (Italy). The director’s debut performance has also been awarded with the prize for best directing at the festival “Encounter” (Brno, Czech Republic) as well as the prize of the sympathies of the audience. Kamilė Gudmonaitė is one of the most promising theater directors of the new generation in Lithuania. Feast is third Kamile’s performance in OKT/Vilnius City Theatre.  She is also directing in other theatres in Lithuania and abroad.

Credits

Dramaturg: Laura Švedaitė

Director: Kamilė Gudmonaitė

Set and Costumes Designer: Barbora Šulniūtė

Light Designer: Vilius Vilutis

Composer: Simonas Šipavičius

Choreographer: Mantas Stabačinskas

Producer: OKT / Vilnius City Theatre

Cast: Loreta Taluntytė, Kristina Šaparauskaitė, Oleg Dlugovskij, Božena Burokienė, Justina Platakytė, Juozas Čepulis, Mantas Stabačinskas

Premiere: 16 September 2021