About
The play takes the audience to Moscow of 2109. An electronic alarm clock signals the start of the wakeful cycle of the Second Shift. Three sisters – Nastia, Maya, and Maria – crawl out of their thermoses one after the other, steaming and sleepy. For ten years, they have hibernated in the state of anabiosis and are finding it difficult to orient themselves in space and time; they are moving painfully due to muscular atrophy and still drifting between dreams and reality. It will take some time for them to come to grips with reality.
All this started many years ago, in the 2030s. As global warming and overpopulation of the planet led to a shortage of fresh water and food resources, two World Water Wars followed one another. Discoveries in genetics helped to resolve the problem of overpopulation: half of humanity was sent to a decade-long hibernation and thus the life in shifts began. Every ten years, the shifts change; the wakeful arouse the sleepers and drift into slumber themselves. Unfortunately, the two shifts have radically different values and attitudes towards the governance and the future of the world…
Director
Graduated from the Lithuanian Music Academy (course leader Jonas Vaitkus) in 1993 with a Master’s degree in Theatre Directing. While still a student, the young director stood out for his unusual theatrical language, his performances were referred to as “a separate body”, “a theatre within a theatre”. O. Koršunovas is among those who formed the contemporary Lithuanian theatre language, he was the first to invade traditional theatre with “unpopular” and “incomprehensible” dramaturgy. In 1998 the director, together with a few like-minded artists, founded an independent theatre called Oskaras Koršunovas Theatre (OKT). Koršunovas received numerous awards for his performances: he was granted the Europe Theatre Prize for New Realities in 2006, an honourable title of the Chevalier of the French order of Literature and Arts in 2009, the following year – the main prize of the Annual Meyerhold Assembly. Many of his stage works were awarded with the main Lithuanian theatre prize, the Golden Stage Cross. O. Koršunovas stages performances in other European theatres, he is also a professor at the Lithuanian Academy of Music and Theatre.