The popular play will still be available to see this summer by the seaside – on August 28 and 29 at the old high school in Palanga, and on August 30 at the Klaipėda Drama Theatre.
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The play “When We Are Young” talks about what many people try to escape from their whole lives. About old age – a guest no one awaits, but who sooner or later comes to everyone. About people whom society often forgets, undervalues, mocks, or pushes to the margins. And about life experience, which, despite the years, can be an invaluable treasure.
A colorful company of elderly people, portrayed by audience-favorite actors Vilija Grigaitytė, Liubomiras Laucevičius, Jūratė Onaitytė, Inesa Paliulytė, Algirdas Pintukas, Liucija Rukšnaitytė, and Lili Stepankaitė, gather at the funeral of their youth friend. They have so much to remember, so much to talk about. Old events return, feelings that have not faded, untold stories. But there is little time left…
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Although the play talks about old age, its center is not sadness, but life. It is full of humor, memories of youth, unexpected situations, and gentle irony. The audience is invited to look at older people not as “others,” but as themselves – as we are and as we will be in the future.
“When We Are Young” was chosen as the best play of the 15th Dalia Tamulevičiūtė Professional Theatre Festival and the Lithuanian Professional Theatre Festival “We Act for Farmers.” The creative team was awarded the Kaunas Municipality prize “Fortūna,” and the actresses Vilija Grigaitytė, Inesa Paliulytė, Jūratė Onaitytė, and Liucija Rukšnaitytė who perform in the play were awarded the “Golden Stage Cross.”
