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Date: March 3-6-7:30 pm

Venue: PLA Theater

Price: 100-500 yuan

Director Oskaras Korsunovas:"We're in acute need of self-analysis, in order to understand our environment and the decisions we make about living. We may even need to nurture a certain 'paranoia' in ourselves, in order to protect ourselves from making fundamental errors in understanding the world. We need to over-come the calm the surrounds us, we need to learn and relearn that it's an illusion. That's why Hamlet is the most topical play for our times. The Hamlet question seems absurd to us at first. Our existence is so comfortable, and the future seems almost guaranteed. But actually the future is to be found inside each of us, and not in political slogans or commercial advertising. We need to tear the veil that hides life fromus, we need to rip up our supposedly safe existence. Security can be very dangerous. Oskaras Korsunovas is a Lithuanian theatre director. Between 1988 and 1994, he studied at the Music Academy of Lithuania and received bachelor's and master's degrees in theatre directing. After graduating, he staged more than 20 performances, first at Academic Drama Theatre of Lithuania, later at Oskaras Korsunovas Theatre (OKT) established by him in 1998. He has created his own personal style and established the concept of his theatre. He focuses on present-day reality, chaos and paradox, absurdity and fragmentation. In 2002 he won the Lithuanian National Prize and the European New Reality Prize. Established in 1998, Oskaras Korsunovas Theatre from the outset was determined to remain independent. OKT firmly decided to cut all relations with the theatrical reality of that time and create a newreality based on a contemporary theatre language.

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