Bo\u017eena Aleksandrovi\u010d<\/strong><\/p>\n <\/p>\n
Jean-Luc Lagarce\u2019s play \u201cI Was at Home Waiting for the Rain to Come\u201d (\u201cJ\u2019\u00e9tais dans ma maison et j\u2019attendais que la pluie vienne\u201d)\u2014the penultimate work by the French actor, director, and playwright. Written in 1994, a year before the author\u2019s death (he died of AIDS at the age of 38), the play is one of three (alongside \u201cIt\u2019s Only the End of the World,\u201d 1990, \u201cA Far Country,\u201d 1995) that the playwright left as his final works.<\/p>\n
\u201cI Was at Home Waiting for the Rain to Come\u201d tells the story of five women: three sisters, a mother, and an elderly woman. For many years, they have been waiting for their brother, son, and grandson, whom their father drove out of the house after an argument. The women\u2019s lives seem to have come to a standstill all this time, frozen in time. He seems to have returned; he\u2019s sleeping, lying in the bed they\u2019ve kept for him. But is he really sleeping? Or is he dying? We don\u2019t see him on stage, but the sense that he is there after all lingers, hanging in the air. Like a promise, the hope of a brighter future. Or is it merely a projection of the women\u2019s hopes, fears, grievances, and expectations? In the play, the act of waiting becomes a character in its own right\u2014like Beckett\u2019s Godot or the shadow of the approaching planet from Lars von Trier\u2019s *Melancholia*. <\/p>\n
Five vivid female characters, poetic language, and metaphors captivate and enthrall\u2014especially since the play speaks to all of our undeniable desire to exist and to find fulfillment.<\/p>\n
After his death, J.-L. Lagarce became one of the most frequently staged contemporary French playwrights in theaters around the world. The playwright\u2019s texts are distinguished by their complex syntax, the absence of conventional plot, a unique play structure, and the frequent use of allusions and quotations.<\/p>\n
\u201cI found it beautiful that the play feels as if it\u2019s unfinished, that it has more pauses than action. This opens up space for interpretation and sparks a desire to reflect on the nature of love, self-sacrifice, and truth. The choice of this work was entirely intuitive, yet it is relevant both to me personally and to people of the 21st century. The intertwining of tragedy, depth, and gentle humor in the text has an emotional impact and explores the broad and complex theme of waiting.\u201d (Kotryna Siaurusaityt\u0117)<\/p>\n
\u201cSometimes I feel helpless. Useless and incapable of anything, unable to act, do, or say anything. Blind and deaf, and even foolish, keeping my foolishness to myself. I wait and feel my helplessness. I freeze, feeling that I cannot open my mouth, speak, respond, or express the two or three main thoughts that have arisen in my solitude.\u201d (Jean-Luc Lagarce. \u201cRevue d\u2019Esthetique,\u201d 1994)<\/p>\n
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Jean-Luc Lagarce (1957\u20131995) was a French playwright, theater director, and actor. He studied philosophy at the University of Franche-Comt\u00e9 and theater arts at the Conservatory of Dramatic Arts in Besan\u00e7on, and wrote 25 plays. In 1977, together with like-minded students, he founded the theater troupe \u201cTh\u00e9\u00e2tre de la Roulotte,\u201d which J.-L. Lagarce remained a part of even after winning the Petit Od\u00e9on theater\u2019s playwriting competition and receiving an offer to move to Paris. In B\u00e9ziers, he founded the publishing house \u201cLes Solitaires Intempestifs,\u201d which to this day publishes texts and plays by contemporary playwrights (including his own). In accordance with the artist\u2019s wishes, he was buried in an anonymous urn in the columbarium at the P\u00e8re-Lachaise Cemetery in Paris.<\/em><\/p>\nKotryna Siaurusaityt\u0117 (b. 1996) is a theater director who graduated with a degree in theater directing (under the guidance of Eimuntas Nekro\u0161ius). After graduation, she worked for several years at the Juozas Miltinis Drama Theater in Panev\u0117\u017eys, where she directed four productions: \u201cConversations on a Moonlit Night,\u201d \u201cThe Cloak,\u201d *The Little Prince*, and *The Extraordinary Journey of Edward Tulane*. She also assisted other directors. At the theater, he presented audiovisual installations (\u201cStagnation\u201d and \u201cLabyrinth\u201d) with like-minded colleagues. He currently works as an assistant director at the Lithuanian National Drama Theater (LNDT). <\/em><\/p>\nSUPREME<\/em><\/p>\nI was at home, waiting for the rain to come<\/em><\/p>\nI looked up at the sky as I always do,<\/em><\/p>\nRunning far, far away onto the road.<\/em><\/p>\nI always watch it in the evenings; I always stay up until<\/em><\/p>\nI sit on the threshold late at night and wait, and wait\u2026<\/em><\/p>\nI waited for the rain to come and soak the ground, the paths, and the grass<\/em><\/p>\nand will comfort us.<\/em><\/p>\nMOTHER<\/em><\/p>\nHe would always leave, and he would always come back. I couldn’t even imagine, <\/em><\/p>\nThat he won’t come back? And that this is the beginning of all those years of waiting? <\/em><\/p>\nOLD<\/em><\/p>\nAfter so many years\u2014another year of waiting,<\/em><\/p>\nIs that what you said?<\/em><\/p>\nHere, at home, it’s the same feeling of anticipation,<\/em><\/p>\non the tips of one’s fingers,<\/em><\/p>\nwait, as if we were waiting for the baby in the upstairs room to wake up, all of us<\/em><\/p>\nWe’ll take turns keeping watch here.<\/em><\/p>\nTHE YOUNGEST<\/em><\/p>\nMy time will come, I’ll step forward and make a difference<\/em><\/p>\nall my life.<\/em><\/p>\n(Jean-Luc Lagarce. \u201cI Was at Home, Waiting for the Rain to Come.\u201d Translated from the French by Gintaras Patackas)<\/p>\n
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The play “I Was at Home Waiting for the Rain” by, Jean-Luc Lagarce November 24 at 6:30 p.m. at the Naujoji Vilnia Cultural Center Tickets: https:\/\/kakava.lt\/renginys\/jean-luc-lagarce-as-buvau-namuose-ir-laukiau-kol-ateis-lietus-rez-kotryna-siaurusaityte\/7433\/27214 https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/events\/1826309451666183 Creative Team: Director \u2013 Kotryna Siaurusaityt\u0117 Set and Costume Designer \u2013 Arvydas Gudas Composer \u2013 Vygintas Kisevi\u010dius Lighting Designer \u2013 Julius Kur\u0161ys Assistant Director \u2013 Gelena Iva\u0161kevi\u010d The […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":1103343,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"on","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[109],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1103342","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-festivals"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nvkc.lt\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1103342","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nvkc.lt\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nvkc.lt\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nvkc.lt\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nvkc.lt\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1103342"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/nvkc.lt\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1103342\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1103346,"href":"https:\/\/nvkc.lt\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1103342\/revisions\/1103346"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nvkc.lt\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1103343"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nvkc.lt\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1103342"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nvkc.lt\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1103342"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nvkc.lt\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1103342"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}