The performance is for viewers aged 16 and over.
The performace contains violence scenes, including animal torture.

For this new production, Yana Ross has chosen the essay "Consider the Lobster" by the American writer David Foster Wallace (1962–2008), who fundamentally questions human nature. In his texts, Wallace tackles some of the most sensitive and uncomfortable issues of contemporary society: empathy, child-rearing, intimacy, miscommunication, and the end of anthropocentrism.

"We hope to encourage viewers to rethink their own ethical and moral codes and values, and at the same time draw attention to the socially acceptable grey areas that we intend to question. Susan Sontag's important book "Regarding the Pain of Others" was also very helpful in the development of the play," says Yana Ross.

Yana Ross highlights moments of uncanniness, sharpening them and transforming them into one of her poetic strategies in the performance. They act like a "suspended" image on the screen—unnaturally slowed and jarringly jerky, disrupting the flow of the narrative and forcing us to see what's happening from a different perspective.

Alma Braškytė, menufaktura.lt

Yana Ross uses humor in her fight for animal rights (lobsters, like Lithuanian crayfish, are thrown into boiling water alive), directly engaging the audience. (...) 21st-century theatre, cinema, and literature are impatient; they want a quick result, so they don't hesitate to hit the viewer over the head and abandon "Aristotelian, linear dramatic thinking."

Jūratė Visockaitė, Literatūra ir menas

Language: Lithuanian (Polish and English subtitles)

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