“Lithuanian King Oedipus is a story about getting mature and abandoning God. In the performance God is perceived from a child’s perspective – he is like a soft toy, a friend, a plaything – a confidant whom you can tell anything, and who is always there to accompany your loneliness. What happens with God modeled in this way when a child becomes an adult? Mature man abandons God, God becomes lost somewhere – in a toy box, under the bed, in the attic. You do not know at which point you stopped needing him. Korsunovas proves that there is no God. Man can mature and abandon God. A need of God, longing for him overcomes man and reminds him of their existence in the least expected moment.”. Oedipus acted by Dainius Gavenionis is imprisoned somewhere between his childhood and maturity. He does not give the answer to the question how to live. In the first scene he is a self-assured businessman, a man of success who happened to get to the courtyard where he used to play as a child (….) Scene after scene, Gavenionus’ face tortured by the inevitable self-recognition becomes a mask”.
Łukasz Drewniak “Tygodnik Powszechny”