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Performance “Father”

2025-01-25 - 2025-01-25

Time

17:00 - 19:30

Location

Klaipėda Drama Theatre
Teatro str. 2

How do people who once loved each other unquestionably, who were ready to put their lives in each other’s hands, slowly begin to drift apart? How do these seemingly small and unimportant differences, these slightly different ways of looking at the world, suddenly become a major barrier to communication? Why do those who used to love each other drift apart, close themselves up in their own private worlds, and love is gradually replaced first by indifference and then by open hatred? How do we learn the terrible art of slowly poisoning each other with silent rage, and then generally declaring open and merciless war on each other? Why do lovers stop loving?

In his play, Strindberg precisely and ruthlessly analyses the last phase of this imperceptible transformation – the terrible hatred that is growing inexorably.

August Strindberg (1849-1912) was a Swedish writer and playwright, one of the world’s most important theatre figures, and deservedly regarded as a pioneer of modern theatre.

Strindberg is an incredibly colourful and multifaceted personality. Strindberg not only wrote novels and plays, but also 72 volumes of his writings. He studied Chinese, and wrote research papers on oriental studies, linguistics, ethnography, history, biology, astronomy, astrophysics and mathematics.

Strindberg’s work was much resented by Swedish society at the time. Sharp themes, modern language, novelty of approach – not at all what the traditional entertaining audience expects. Even the famous “Freken Julia” was not built in Sweden until 20 years after its creation.

August Strindberg wrote the psychological drama The Father in 1887, just a year before the publication of his frank and painful autobiographical novel The Confessions of a Madman.

Latvian director Mara Kimel is one of the most famous figures in Latvian theatre. 1969 m. graduated from the A. Lunacharsky Theatre Art Institute in Moscow, student of A. Efros. 1969-1989 m. Director of Valmiera Drama Theatre. 1975-1993 m. taught acting and directing at the Latvian Jazeps Vytautas Conservatory in Riga (since 1991 Latvian Jazeps Vytautas Academy of Music), and since 1996 he has been a lecturer at the Latvian Academy of Music. – Latvian Academy of Culture in Riga. 1990-1993 m. Kabata Theatre in Riga, 1994-1996 and since 2003 Director of the New Riga Theatre. Mara Kimelė 2012 at Klaipėda Drama Theatre has directed the psychological drama The Hour of Brokenness by P.O. Enquist.

You can book your tickets here: https://kdt.lt/renginiai/tevas/?first=9d9a7891-4d5a-4225-b869-5fce38ddb775

* Automatic translation was used to translate the event information.