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The director of the performance is Rolandas Kazlas:
“Eureka! I found it! Here is an author truly worthy of attention and the utmost respect!” – this was my first reaction when I met Robert Walser, this Swiss writer of exceptional talent and extraordinary fate. And after reading his “Walk”, which was brilliantly translated into Lithuanian by Rūta Jonynaitė, I realized that it is a real treasure and a gift for the theater stage, actors and audiences. A very bright and playful, painful and funny, free and wise “Walserian” look and word is perhaps what a person needs most today, and at the same time, myself, as an actor and director.
I invite everyone to take one last walk around "The Walk".
"A Walk" is perhaps the most famous short story by the Swiss writer Robert Walser. Robert Walser, born in 1878 in Biel, was an overly sensitive man, haunted by his own demons, all his life. He died in 1956, after spending decades quietly in a psychiatric hospital, forgotten by people and the literary world. It was only in the 1970s that he was "rediscovered," although his very distinctive, poetic prose had already been admired by Robert Musil, Franz Kafka, Walter Benjamin, and Hermann Hesse.
"A Walk", first published in 1917, was hailed by Swiss literary critic Eduard Korrodis as "a cheerful little masterpiece: an apology for a hard-working idler, whom ordinary people call a poet," writes Rūta Jonynaitė, the translator of the short story "A Walk".
The author, director and walker of the production of "The Walk" is Rolandas Kazlas.
Two more walkers – Audronis Rūkas and Dainius Tarutis.
Set and costume designer – Elvita Brazdylytė.
