Outdoor performance “The Girl with a Ri(spoo)fle”

We will tell you a story about Magdutė, a girl of about nine who lived in a very difficult time for Lithuania, but who endured everything and did not break. We will tell how she learned to be brave and overcame her fears, of which – believe us – as many spring up in every child's heart as mushrooms after rain. Especially when a happy and bright childhood is trampled by the heavy leaden feet of war and post-war turmoil. This is a story about a fighter, a Pathfinder, a forest sister who became a helper of Lithuania's freedom fighters when the occupying plunderers deported her family to faraway Siberia. In the mirror of Magdutė's story is reflected the history of post-war Lithuania, the partisan struggles and sacrifice, the endurance of ordinary people – a history that passed through fire and water, through the dark times of lies, and finally led Lithuania to independence. The performance was inspired by the wonderful book, already beloved by children, by Marius Marcinkevičius and Lina Itagaki, “The Girl with a Rifle. A Story About a Girl Partisan.” But the Table Theatre would not be the Table Theatre if it did not think up a way to present it as compellingly, as engagingly as possible, using new object-theatre means unexpected to the viewer, and moreover under the open sky. You have surely never seen a performance like this! This time you will be acted for, and the story told, by pots – of various sizes, shapes, colours and ages. Of course, what matters here is not their shapes but their contents – what is cooking in those pots and what we will be able to treat the viewer to. Courage, hope, tenderness of the heart and compassion? Perhaps love, longing, memories of childhood days? Or perhaps a stubborn determination to fight against evil and injustice in the everyday world in which we live? And finally – if there are pots, there will also be spoons, which in a child's hands are in any case superior to rifles. For children of primary-school age The creation of the performance is funded by the Lithuanian Council for Culture

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