19.
CHANSON OF ADMIRATION
III. Rose-colored dresses flutter:
Jellyfish dance along in pairs – With emerald-colored bags, Bottles and red bottle-caps.
O the sea never had so much color!
20.
SONG OF EXHAUSTION. WORKOHOLIC’S SONG
II.
I finally learned to stay calm,
Not to take my state of mind home.
And at work there are unwritten rules, we could call them etiquette:
Don’t complain when things get difficult, When you are lacking sleep,
When you are under the weather.
Even if you run out of gas – just keep
smiling…
But suppressed emotions, I noticed, don’t disappear so easily,
they get knotted up in your psyche: Suppressed negativity finds a way out
unexpectedly, Like lava.
LIKE LAVA, LIKE LAVA, LIKE LAVA, LIKE LAVA…
I feels so bad when I can’t control myself, And I lose my cool in public.
then I feel sorry for myself, guilty,
I feel ashamed…
LIKE LAVA, LIKE LAVA, LIKE LAVA, LIKE LAVA…
EXHAUSTION, EXHAUSTION, EXHAUSTION, EXHAUSTION,
IT’S LIKE A MAMMOTH –
A NON-EXISTENT CREATURE
GONE EXTINCT: ENCYCLOPEDIAS, THE ANNALS OF
HISTORY– HAVE IT,
BUT IN LIFE – A THING YOU’LL
NEVER MEET YOU’LL NEVER MEET
YOU’LL NEVER MEET…
VACATION IS WHAT KILLED THE MAMMOTH –
OFFICIALLY, THE CREATURE DOES NOT EXIST, BUT ACTUALLY,
IT’S A SPECIES THAT BREEDS AT THE HIGHEST RATE.
AFTER VACATION,
YOUR HAIR SHINES,
YOUR EYES GLITTER,
EVERYTHING IS FINE.
After vacation,
Your hair shines,
Your eyes glitter,
Everything is fine.
from Sun and Sea (Marina)
an opera-performance by:
Rugilė Barzdžiukaitė, Vaiva Grainytė, Lina Lapelytė
Texts: Vaiva Grainytė, translated from Lithuanian by Rimas Užgiris
Music and musical direction: Lina Lapelytė Direction and scenography: Rugilė Barzdžiukaitė