Director – Kristina Marija Kulinič
Scenographer, costume designer – Karolina Klimavičiūtė
Video designer – Kristijonas Dirsė
Composer – Monika Poderytė
Lighting designer – Ramūnas Nėnius
Stage director’s assistant  – Eglė Kuzienė

The Weather is Good if You Don’t Think Too Much is based on the eponymous play by actress, playwright and director Kristina Marija Kulinič. It tackles profoundly relevant topics such as history, memory, historical traumas, guilt, and the Holocaust. Do we truly learn from history, and is it even possible? One thing is for certain: only human nature remains unchanged.

Two young people – Marija, a history teacher, and Julius, a soldier – find themselves trapped in an undefined space reminiscent of a 21st-century outdoor café in the Old Town of Vilnius. How they’ve ended up here, and what their previous lives were like – a blank spot. The only memory they share is their first date... in the former Jewish ghetto. From time to time, they speak with the voices of dybbuks (spirits in Jewish mythology that possess the living), whose confessions gradually piece together a mosaic of the past and the lives of their loved ones.

In the face of the war against Ukraine, the October 7th attack on Israel, and the ensuing hostilities and unrest, the idea that ‘history repeats itself’ has taken on an all-too-real dimension. But is the future real? Will we have the determination, responsibility, and sanity not to get stuck in yet another ‘history lesson’? What will our history be? How much power do we have to change it? Or is everything already moving towards an inevitable catastrophe, whose signs will only be visible in retrospect – and only to those who will write (if they do write) the history of us?

The performance uses smoke, bright flashes of light.

Performed in Lithuanian
 

Cast:
Edita Gončarova, Dovydas Stončius