Gintaras Varnas
Gintaras Varnas (1961) è un regista teatrale lituano. Dal 1988 al 1993 ha studiato direzione teatrale all'Accademia Lituana di Musica sotto la supervisione di Jonas Vaitkus e Rimas Tuminas.
Tra il 1980 e il 1983 G.Varnas ha lavorato come assistente alla regia al Teatro Drammatico Russo Lituano. La fama di G. Varnas si estende quando fonda nel 1988 il teatro Šėpos, che dirigerà fino al 1992.
Nel periodo dal 1989 al 2004 diventa un direttore artistico freelance creando performances per il Teatro statale della Gioventù , per il Piccolo Teatro di Vilnius , per il teatro dell'Opera lituano, e all'estero per il Teatro dell'Opera Nazionale della Lettonia e il teatro Nitra in Slovacchia. A partire dalla primavera del 2004 G. Varnas è direttore artistico del teatro statale drammatico di Kaunas .
Performances
2008 Dea Loher "Roosevelt Square" (Kaunas State Drama Theatre)
2007 “Hail of Stars” (authors of scenario Gintaras Varnas and Gabrielė Labanauskaitė, Kaunas State Drama Theatre)
2006 Rainer Werner Fassbinder "Bitter Tears of Petra von Kant" (artistic director of the performance Gintaras Varnas, director Rokas Ramanauskas, Kaunas State Drama Theatre)
2005 Dea Loher “Innocent” (Kaunas State Drama Theatre)
2005 Timothee de Fombelle “Lighthouse” (Kaunas State Drama Theatre)
2005 Agatha Christie “10 Indians” (Kaunas State Drama Theatre)
2005 Dea Loher “Relations of Clara” (“Klaras sakari”) (Latvian Art Theatre)
2004 Fiodor Dostojevski “Crime and Punishment” (Kaunas State Academic Drama Theatre)
2004 Tankred Dorst, Ursula Ehler “Devastated Land” (joint project of Kaunas State Academic Drama Theatre, Arts Printing House and SEAS)
2003 Federico Garcia Lorca “Dona Rosita, or Language of Flowers” (Kaunas State Academic Drama Theatre)
2002 Marina Carr “Portija Koglen” (Kaunas State Academic Drama Theatre)
2001 Jean-Luc Lagarce “Distant Land” (Kaunas State Academic Drama Theatre)
2000 Pedro Calderon de la Barca “Life is a Dream” (Lithuanian National Drama Theatre)
2000 August Strindberg “Dream” (Nitra A. Bagaro Drama Theatre, Slovakia)
1999 Eugene O'Neill “Mourning Becomes Electra” (Kaunas State Academic Drama Theatre)
1998 Henrik Ibsen “Heda Gabler” (Kaunas State Academic Drama Theatre)
1997 Pedro Calderon de la Barca “Great Theatre of the World” (project of specific space “Observatory”)
1997 Botho Strauss “Time and Room” (Lithuanian State Academic Drama Theatre)
1996 Federico Garcia Lorca “Audience” (Lithuanian State Academic Drama Theatre)
1995 Albert Camus “Stranger” (Lithuanian State Academic Drama Theatre)
1993 Federico Garcia Lorca “If Five Years Passed” (Vilnius Small Theatre)
1990 Jovita abaitė “Communist Nostalgias” (Šėpa Theatre)
1989 Liudvikas Jakimavičius “Lullaby of Revolution” (Šėpa Theatre)
1989 “Valiant King” (according to Lithuanian folk tales) (Lithuanian State Youth Theatre)
1987 “Bezdukas” (according to Lithuanian folk tales)
1986 William Shakespeare “Romeo and Juliet”
1986 Aleksandr Blok “Clambake”
1984 Ljudmila Petrushevskaja “Luggage of Rubbish”
Opera
2003 Giuseppe Verdi “Rigoletto” (Lithuanian National Opera and Ballet Theatre)
2002 Giuseppe Verdi “Mask Ball” (Latvian National Opera)
2001 Piotr Chaikovski “Queen of Spades” (Lithuanian National Opera and Ballet Theatre)
2000 Giuseppe Verdi “Don Carlos” (Latvian National Opera)
1999 Richard Strauss “Salome” (Latvian National Opera)
Trips and Festivals
2007 “Raduga” (Saint Petersburg, Russia)
2007 “Rowan” (Lithuania)
2004 “Sirens” (Lithuania)
1999 “Divadelna Nitra“ (Slovakia)
1999 “Homo Novus“ (Riga, Latvia)
1998 “Contact“ (Torune, Poland)
1997 “Baltoscandal“ (Rakvere, Estonia)
1991 Theatre trip in Norway, Canada, USA
1991 “Baltijskij Dom“ (Saint Petersburg, Russia)
1990 International theatre action (Moscow, Russia)
1990 “Baltoscandal“ festival (Piarnu, Estonia)
1986 Students’ theatre festival (Tartu, Estonia)
International projects and traineeships
2004 SEAS – international contemporary art project
1997 EURALIEN – international project of specific space in Stockholm (episode “Bus”)
1992 Session of London National Theatre in Lithuania, seminar of playwrights and directors
1991 Creative laboratory “Theater der Welt” (Germany)
Premi:
2008 "Fortune" prize for direction of the play "Roosevelt Square" by Dea Loher
2006 "Fortune" statue for the best performance of the season in Kaunas – Dea Loher “Innocent”
2006 Lithuanian National Culture and Art Prize
2005 Golden stage cross for the best direction (“Crime and Punishment”, “Devastated Land”, “Lighthouse”)
2005 “Fortune“ award for the best direction in Kaunas (“Crime and Punishment”)
2005 Main prize of the festival “Lithuanian Theatre Spring” (“Crime and Punishment”)
2004 Golden stage cross for the best staging of opera (“Rigoletto“)
2004 Prize of Kaunas Art Creators’ Association (“Crime and Punishment”)
2001 “Christopher” along with the conductor for the best staging of opera (“Queen of Spades”)
2002 “Christopher” for the best direction (“Distant Land”)
2000 “Christopher” for the best direction (“Heda Gabler”)
1999 “Fortune“ award for the best direction in Kaunas (“Mourning Becomes Electra”)
1998 “Fortune“ award for the best direction in Kaunas (“Heda Gabler”)
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