Director, designer, dramaturgy co-author – Renaud Herbin (France)
Dramaturgy co-author, director assistant – Lina Laura Švedaitė
Composer – Arturas Bumšteinas
Light designer – Vilius Vilutis
Designers, puppet makers: Aušra Bakanaitė, Agnė Jablonskytė, Gintarė Radvilavičiūtė
Cast: Monika Mikalauskaitė Baužienė / Renata Kutaitė Raudonienė, Vytautas Kairys
Production – Klaipėda Puppet Theatre, Lithuania
Producer – Agnė Pulokaitė
Premiere: September 27, 2024, Klaipėda, Lithuania
International premiere: October 10, 2024, Le Mouffetard Paris, France
Supported by: Lithuanian Culture Institute, Klaipėda City Municipality, Lithuanian
Council for Culture, Lithuanian Presidency of the Council of Europe, Institut
Marionette performance “Kissing the Ashes” was created in collaboration with the French puppeteer and director Renaud Herbin. The theatre invited the artist to create a performance about Klaipėda, a city that has repeatedly risen from the ashes, and the dramaturgy of the performance is based on the events of the Second World War. In the autumn of 1944, most of the old inhabitants were evacuated to Germany, and when the Red Army arrived in the city, they found only a few people there. Klaipėda has undergone a tremendous change, a painful crack in its memory.
Renaud Herbin and his creative team decided to create a poetic dedication to this crack and to investigate what it means to lose memory, how history is told when not everything is remembered or not wanted to be remembered, what is done with the cracks, which narrator – the actor or the marionette – is more real? Since historical narrative is a very delicate matter, the performnace does not seek to recreate the truth – on the contrary, it uses fantasy, which is also a kind of memory, especially collective memory. “Kissing the Ashes“ is one of a thousand possible stories about what happens when a city loses its memory.
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