“Smulkūs Vedybiniai Nusikaltimai”

Éric - Emmanuel Shmitt

„SMULKŪS VEDYBINIAI NUSIKALTIMAI“

A love detective story

Žilis wakes up in hospital with his head bandaged and amnesia. A beautiful woman who enters the ward says that she is Liza, his wife, and that Žilis is her husband.

Liza takes Žilis home and begins to tell him the story of their life together, which he cannot remember at all!

Thus begins an intellectual duel between the two, a labyrinth of relationships and a tangle of memories. Which one is lying? Or perhaps both? The longer they talk, the more layers emerge: tenderness turns threatening, while humour becomes a veiled attack. The dialogue works like a game of chess, with the truth changing with every sentence.

What is love? Can it be restored? Perhaps marriage is a creative process in which spouses seek to remake one another? Or perhaps it is an alliance of killers?

Shmitt combines philosophical questions with the details of everyday life, skilfully balancing erotic playfulness, dark humour and psychological intrigue.

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Director OLEGAS ŠAPOŠNIKOVAS (LV), also a professional psychologist, creates a deeply grounded and carefully motivated stage action.

The charismatic duo of actors VALDA BIČKUTĖ and VYTAUTAS RUMŠAS (jun.) convincingly conveys the characters’ complex experiences.

Set designer MARIJUS JACOVSKIS and costume designer JUOZAS VALENTA have created a recognisable yet aesthetically stylised space for the performance.

The performance is presented by VšĮ “LUMO STUDIJA”

2025