8 Metamorphoses - DIPLOMA PERFORMANCE

29 november 2013 godz. 18 Teatr Gdynia Główna, Gdynia

direction: Loreta Vaskova / script: zespół (the group)

linguistic consultation: Marzena Chojnowska

cast: Oksana Auškalnytė, Karolina Gaffke, Monika Hołubowicz, Ewelina Jasicka, Agne Levickaitė, Małgorzata Polakowska, Piotr Rogalski, Natalia Wiśniewska

The performance is made up of 8 monologues written in the process of BAIT project meetings. The first time I met with the students, I gave them their main task:  to take the dramatic situation from Metamorphosis, a short story by Franz Kafka, and choose a character and an animal to write monologues. The monologues were to convey a transformation from a human into a symbolic animal or vice versa and to answer the question: what would have to happen to a human being for him/her to transform?

In the 8'Metamorphoses performance preparation process the students participated in many exercises for imagination and reflection on they own lives. So it's a product of the entire group’s experience and imagination. The team searched for an answer to the question: how do we make changes in our lives? 

Loreta Vaskowa

Loreta Vaskova – Lithuanian theatrical director. Loreta’s work comprises of: drama performances, operas and pedagogical work. Between 2005 - 2013, she studied in Klaipeda University where she got her Bachelor degree, her Master degree in theatrical directing she received in the Moscow Art Theatre School (Centre of Meyerhold). In 2010 she was awarded for her theatre debut with the Prise of the Ministry of Culture of the Republic of Lithuania and in 2011 was nominated for „Golden Cross of the Stage“ in Lithuania.