-Rimas Tuminas

 

 

The long-awaited stage adaptation of The Three Sisters by Rimas Tuminas marked symbolically the beginning of the new creative period of the State Small Theatre of Vilnius, which has finally moved to its new home. It is a meeting point for several different generations of actors, marked by Rimas Tuminas' approach to the theatre: in the production, young members of the troupe perform together with famous Lithuanian actors, and students from Tuminas' class make their stage debuts. The director shares generously his surprising inventiveness and imagination, paradoxical and unexpectedly stylistic sets, and at the same time, he seems to summarise his previous work. In Chekhov's The Three Sisters, the theme of the decline of a family and, simultaneously, of the old culture, is most important to him. However, he has not thought of creating a sob-story or moaning about changing times.