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Juozas Miltinis Drama Theater presents Friday, August 18, at 7 p.m. Two-part theatrical bluff "Volponė" in the Birštonas cultural center.
Based on the play by Ben Jonson, written in 1928. adapted by Jules Romains and Stefan Zweig; in 1941 Juozas Miltinis continued their activities; in 2021 and Aidas Giniotis.
About the performance
The director is Aidas Giniotis. Scenographer and costume designer - Ramunė Skrebūnaitė. The artist of lights is Renaldas Bartulis. Assistant director - Sandra Juzėnienė.
Cast: Dainius Jankauskas, Laimutis Sėdius, Albinas Kėleris, Toma Razmislavičiūtė, Andrius Povilauskas, Vytautas Kupšys, Emilis Pavilionis, Giedrius Arlauskas, Gintautas Žiogas, Ieva Brikė, Donatas Kalkauskas.
Volpone is a Venetian merchant whose name means "cunning fox" in Italian. He pretends to be on his deathbed in order to shred the scumbags who are coming to his legacy. Volpone's sly servant spreads the rumor that only the bed of a young beauty can cure his exhausted master. Greedy but naive, Corvino agrees to "loan" his young wife, with the assurance that in return he will become the sole heir to the estate...
Celebrating its 80th anniversary, the Juozas Miltinis Drama Theater looks into the history of the theater to look at the legendary theater productions with a new perspective. One such - in 1941. the classic comedy Volpone by Shakespeare's contemporary Ben Jonson interpreted by the young director Juozas Miltinis. Volpone is Jonson's most famous play, scathingly mocking human vices such as greed, selfishness, and slavery to passion. The popularity of the play is due to the comic situations and characters, which clearly recognize the masks of the Italian improvisational comedy, commedia dell'arte. It is interesting that at that time Juozas Miltinis himself acted in the play.
The play was revived in the Juoz Miltinis Drama Theater by the director Aidas Giniotis - the greatest connoisseur of commedia dell'arte in Lithuania and a master of comedic genres. Perhaps it turns out that human vices and weaknesses remain the same despite technological and other advances?
The project is financed by the Ministry of Culture of the Republic of Lithuania.
in 2021 At the XXXVII festival of professional theaters "Vaidiname zhemdirbiams" in Rokiški, the play "Volpone" won the audience prize.
in 2021 At the 12th Dalia Tamulevičiūtė Professional Theater Festival in Varėna, the creative team of the play won three awards:
Actor Vytautas Kupšys won in the minor role nomination for the role of Korbachi;
The relatives prize was won by actor Albinas Kēleris, who played the main role of Volpone in the play;
the performance became the best rated performance by the festival audience.
in 2022 at the international theater festival "COM·MEDIA" in Alytus, the performance "Volponė" was chosen as the best audience performance.
