DESCRIPTION
It is said
that if the WWI and WWII have brought us anything good, it is the multitude of
talented "Lost-Generation" writers whose painful experiences became
the focus of the twentieth-century most valued literature. However, we could
hardly find another novel of this time in which war gets described with such satire
as in Czech writer Jaroslav Hašek's masterpiece The
Adventures of Good Soldier Švejk.
Adomas
Juška, a former student of Eimuntas Nekrošius, while still in his third year at
the Lithuanian Academy of Music and Theatre, made his directorial debut with
his production Švejk based Jaroslav
Hašek's book. For his first work the young director chose several situations
created by the author of this cult novel, and through them he sought to see
Švejk as a human being whose smile was not just light-hearted fun but rather a poignant
resistance to the regime, the war, and his surroundings. In this production,
Švejk's environment is a shooting gallery where he must hold up a target while
higher-ranking soldiers practice their aiming skills. Švejk grins, the chaplain
drinks, a soldier yells and shoots... The director's objective is to disclose
something real about each of these characters' idiotic existence.
The production was created on the young creators' platform BLACK BOX.