Oskaras Koršunovas: real-time theatre

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ENOskaras Koršunovas1 appeared on the Lithuanian theatre scene like the fall of a meteor - such was the effect that his first productions made on the audience, theatre professionals and amateurs alike. In 1990, after the fall of the Berlin wall and the collapse of the Soviet Union, Lithuanian theatre experienced a kind of shock. The former spectators during the Soviet occupation, who had avidly and piously devoured every authentic word and gesture free from all-pervasive ideology on the theatre stage, left the theatres and went to the streets or kept track of events in the media. Koršunovas, at that time a second-year student of acting and directing, did not appear to have anything in common with the traditional Lithuanian theatre speaking in Aesopian allusions and visual metaphors. Moreover, as if ignoring the importance of the historical moment, he started to produce performances speaking about the tragic absurdity of the human situation and the unpredictability of fate, having chosen the works of Russian avant-gardists, so-called Oberyuts2, as a point of reference. [Extract, p. 103]