Oskaras Koršunovas, Gintaras Sodeika and Sigitas Parulskis attempted to once again apply absurd key to the state birthday celebration by attributing elements of dada genre and farce to opera.

The book is the Talmud, the Quran, and the collection of scientific insights. Every page supplements the gallery of meanings of the changing stage scenery.

Real people - the immigrants from the Middle East, Turkey, Afghanistan and Russia - step on the stage. Some of them are refugees, to whom the asylum in Lithuania meant freedom, the others are economic, love migrants, and students.

There are few people creating contemporary circus in Lithuania, so LDIC is keen on changing that.

After a break of 26 years, director Eimuntas Nekrošius returned to the Vilnius Youth Theatre, the theatre of his youth. His premiere [i]Zinc (Zn)[/i] is based on the books by Svetlana Alexievich, the laureate of the Nobel Prize.

I don't think it's an exaggeration to say that it's the best video work I've ever seen on stage.

I would have been quite interested to see what could have been achieved if there'd been a dramaturg and a discernible point.

That's the way the world is now - everyone is travelling to meet others. Artists from different countries get together to work on a project and come to Lithuania for two weeks. They are able to discover its creative field, a new city, they get inspired.

In the past few years there has been observed a higher activity and visibility of artists and their groups who offer alternative visions of theatre.

The playwright's only mission is to write, and write well. When you think you already know how - persuade yourself that you don't and continue to learn.

During these last few years heads of Lithuanian theatres not only discovered international foundations, but also gained more experience in the production area and started reaping fruitful results.