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The performance is in Lithuanian and is suitable for viewers aged 12 and above.

Director and playwright – Žilvinas Vingelis
Artist – Neringa Keršulytė
Composer – Andrius Šiurys
Video artist – Tomas Stonys
Engineer Lighting
designer – Vilius Vilutis
Puppet choreographer – Eugenijus Slavinskas
Producer – Darius Vizbaras
Performer – Airida Gintautaitė
Photographer – Alipio Padilha

Duration – 50 min.
Premiere – May 29, 2024.

The Kosmos Theatre production, which combines art, science, and technology, intriguingly reveals the personality of Jean Cocteau—a portrait of the famous 20th-century French interdisciplinary artist. He was a friend of Igor Stravinsky, Marcel Proust, Nobel Prize winner André Gide, and Pablo Picasso. He was also a tireless creator: a film director, playwright, poet, boxing manager, pianist, traveler, sculptor, and painter, associated with the Dadaist and Surrealist movements, but never fully belonging to either.

The creators of the performance, interpreting Cocteau's creative path and biography, analyze what a contemporary artist is and what we are. The main focus of the performance is the early 20th-century theater style, reminiscent of the modernist cabaret environment – from old-fashioned advertising pillars on the street to mechanized set design transformations. The connection with the audience is created through visual images, sound manipulations, puppets, objects, and elements of shadow theater.

Jean Cocteau's facial model and voice mask for the performance were generated by artificial intelligence, while the dreamlike, mesmerizing image of the artist's world on stage is created by actress Airida Gintautaitė, winner of three Golden Crosses of the Stage awards.