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- Title
Lithuanian Drama in the Brezhnev Era: The Two Cases of the Theater of the Absurd.
- Authors
Martišiūtė-Linartienė, Aušra
- Abstract
This article focuses on the context and time when the first two plays of the Theater of the Absurd were staged in Lithuania. The aim of the article is to answer the following questions: what dramatic experiences existed in the Soviet era, in what ways playwrights were trying to communicate with the reader/viewer, what message was formulated and conveyed in the plays, and how the expression of drama has changed since the Soviet era. By focusing on two cases of the Theater of the Absurd – Kazys Saja’s Mamutų medžioklė (The Mammoth Hunt) and Arvydas Ambrasas and Regimantas Midvikis’s Duobė ( The P it) –, t his a rticle e xamines t he period in question and the collective consciousness of the playwrights’ contemporaries as seen and revealed in the plays and performances.
- Subjects
LITHUANIA; BECKETT, Samuel, 1906-1989; COLLECTIVE consciousness; LITHUANIANS; DRAMATISTS; MAMMOTHS
- Publication
Letonica, 2023, Issue 52, p8
- ISSN
1407-3110
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.35539/LTNC.2023.0052.02