Minor Detail
Director: Adomas Juška
Set Designer: Lauryna Liepaitė
Costume Designer: Elena Marija Veleckaitė
Producer: State Youth Theatre
Date and time: September 26th, 4:00 p.m.
Venue: State Youth Theatre (Arklių st. 5, Vilnius)
Duration: 80 minutes
Notes: This is a standing performance. Seating will be available upon request. Audience members are free to choose where to stand during the performance. Latecomers will not be admitted.
Age recommendation: N-16
“Minor Detail” is the latest production by the State Youth Theatre, directed by Adomas Juška and based on the acclaimed novel of the same title by Palestinian writer Adania Shibli. The performance explores historical violence, power, memory and the limits of storytelling, asking how trauma can be represented without reproducing violence and what it means to exist without power or a voice.
The novel is divided into two contrasting parts. The first recounts the rape and murder of a Palestinian girl by Israeli soldiers in 1949. In the second, a woman from Ramallah reads about the crime and embarks on a journey to reconstruct the story from the victim’s perspective rather than through the testimony of the perpetrators.
One of the most distinctive voices of the younger generation of Lithuanian theatre directors, Adomas Juška is known for his poetic visual language and literary adaptations, placing atmosphere, rhythm and imagery at the centre of his work.
Adomas Juška (b. 1996) is a director of the younger generation and a student of Eimuntas Nekrošius. In 2018, during his third year of directing studies, he made his debut and presented his first five works at the State Youth Theater. Adomas Juška often focuses on complex, large-scale works of 20th-century literary classics, and his theatrical language is characterized by symbols and metaphors, prioritizing action over words. In 2023, Juška won the “Golden Stage Cross” for directing the play “The West Bank“, and in 2025, he won the “Golden Stage Cross” for directing the play “The Melancholy of Resistance“.
Credits:
Director: Adomas Juška
Set Designer: Lauryna Liepaitė
Costume Designer: Elena Marija Veleckaitė
Assistant Costume Designer: Nunilo Rumbutis
Lighting Designer: Dainius Urbonis
Composer: Ieva Parnarauskaitė
Video Artists: Vytautas Narbutas, Emile Saba
Assistant Director: Matas Makauskas
Concept: Adomas Juška, Lauryna Liepaitė
Stage Adaptation: Adomas Juška
Cast: Viktorija Kuodytė, Aleksas Kazanavičius, Martynas Berulis, Rūta Jonikaitė, Bayan Shbib
Producer: State Youth Theatre
Premiere: 25 November 2025
