Status
Circus absurd comedy · early work in progress
Prelude
A clown, an actor and a performance that may never begin
About the show
Liudas dreams of becoming THE GREAT artist—if only he could stop postponing the performance.
“Prelude” follows Liudas, a poor but ambitious actor whose greatest dream is to perform as THE GREAT artist in a royal theatre. Yet instead of performing, he spends the entire show finding new ways to postpone it.
The work explores storytelling through clowning and acrobatics, with sound and imagination playing central roles. The audience is invited into the author’s universe—a place where logic disappears, yet everything somehow makes sense.
“Prelude” is still at a very early stage of development. Its characters, structure and performance language continue to evolve through research, residencies and work-in-progress presentations.
At a glance
Duration
20 minutes
Space
Indoor
Discipline
Clowning
The people behind the work
Creative team
Creator & performer
Kęstas Matusevičius
Outside eyes
Jason Dupree
Aino Mäkipää
Research & development
Creation
process
Work-in-progress presentations
Circus PUSH
Lithuania
DYNAMO Workspace
Odense, Denmark
ICCAR — International Circus Center for Artistic Research
Mallorca, Spain
Creation process
circusnext
Serbia
DYNAMO Workspace
Residency · Odense, Denmark
Arts Printing House
Residency · Vilnius, Lithuania
Juodkrantė Culture Centre
Residency · Lithuania
ICCAR — International Circus Center for Artistic Research
Artistic research · Mallorca, Spain
