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Mantas Jankavičius after a 12-year break on the theater stage: this is a love story you can believe in.
After a long break, actor and singer Mantas Jankavičius is returning to the theater stage. As he himself says, he is returning as part of a "successful duet" - Mantas will play the main role in the musical play "Two on the Roof" by actor, director and longtime friend Dainius Kazlauskas.
In the romantic drama "Dviese ant stogo" full of comic situations, Mantas plays the main role together with actress Adelė Šuminskaitė. Together with his stage partner, the duet tells the story of the impossible love, longing and expectations of two young people, and reminds us of timeless values. The performance also features Mantas' songs, one of which is the song "Dviese ant stogo", released just a couple of weeks ago and composed specifically for this performance.
The director of the play, D. Kazlauskas, says that there are not many stories like "Two on the Roof" - finding a new angle to tell about human relationships, presenting the story in an interesting, emotional, and tasteful way is a challenge for both those creating the play and those acting in it, so the director is extremely happy with the result.
"A person's life is not significant. The big things that happen to us seem significant only to us. How do you make your story significant to the person watching it? So that it is understandable, accessible, recognizable, and evokes empathy? I think that was the biggest challenge and today we managed to do it," says the director, adding that he hopes that this performance will be attended and loved, and that it will live a long life on the country's stages.
Mantas says that he and director Dainius Kazlauskas have known each other for many years, but their closer friendship began on the set of the film "Tadas Blinda. Pradžia", where they starred together.
“After this film, Dainius offered me a role in the play “Free Butterflies”, which eventually became incredibly successful and was performed for almost 8 years. So this choice to work together was not accidental – I would call us a “successful duet”, – says Mantas. – With Dainius I could go to the ends of the earth, to exploration, and everywhere else. I believe in him and I believe in the success of this new play.”
The actor and singer admits that the theater genre is dear and close to him, he himself is a frequent visitor to performances, and the dark and unusual space allows him to be with himself, identify with the characters, and leads him to consider existential questions, which is very important and necessary.
"I love theater and I am happy that I have the trust of talented directors. Sometimes it's fun to change my profile, take a break from concert activities, meet and create a relationship with the audience in a different way - theatrically. Wonderful performances await and I am happy to be a part of it," says Mantas.
Actress Adelė Šuminskaitė, who plays the main character in the play “Two on the Roof”, is happy that there is finally someone to tell this beautiful story of two people – finally, after a long time of work in rehearsals and empty halls, the audience has heard and felt it. “It is very good to see how they listen, to hear how they laugh, to feel how they are sad together – it causes a great feeling of gratitude.”
"It was the first time we worked together with Mantus, but everything was simple and very comfortable, there were no barriers or tensions," says the actress. "In this performance, there are only two of us on stage, so we felt complete partnership, trust in each other, and we strongly supported each other."
Starring:
Jerry - Mantas Jankavičius;
Stella - Adelė Šuminskaitė, Greta Petrovskytė.
