"It is very curious, that we think about theatre as primarily being a text that is spoken and written and therefore using the visual side of it only as a decoration."
Broad and non-binding metaphors, the beauty of compositions, dancers' bodies, execution’s precision and lightness - these are probably the main reasons behind the phenomenon of Papaioannou.
Since Polish theatre researcher Łukasz Drewniak is concerned about the lack of personalities, let us use this occasion to look at Lithuanian directors who are currently active.
The most favourable reviews of "Solaris 4" were by Lithuania’s younger generation of theatre specialists, whereas older critics were not taken in by the production’s utterances and its distance from Lem’s novel.