Eimuntas Nekrošius
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Eimuntas Nekrošius (born on November 21, 1952 in Pažobris village, Raseiniai district municipality) is one of the most famous theatre directors in Lithuania. In 1978 he graduated from Lunacharsky theater art institute in Moscow. 1978–1979 he worked in Vilnius State Youth Theatre, 1979-1980 he worked at the Kaunas Drama Theatre and in 1980 returned to the Vilnius State Youth Theatre, where he staged several plays including ‘The Square’ (1981), rock opera ‘Love and Death in Verona’ by Sigitas Geda and K. Antanelis’ (1982, renewed in 1996), Chinghiz Aitmatov’s ‘A Day Longer Than a Hundred Years’ (1983), Anton Chekhov’s ‘Uncle Vanya’ (1986), and Nikolai Gogol’s ‘The Nose’ (1991). All productions by Nekrosius were awarded diplomas of various theatre festivals in Lithuania, the Baltic States, and other countries. Nekrosius is laureate of numerous state awards. In 1994 Nekrosius received a special prize of Lithuanian Theatre Union as the Best Director of the Year, and an award of the Baltic Assembly for Aleksandr Pushkin’s ‘Little Tragedies’ (‘Mozart and Salieri. Don Juan. Plague’) as the best theatre performance in the Baltic States. In 1997 Nekrosius created one of his most successful performances – ‘Hamlet’ by William Shakespeare that took part in nearly all main European theatre festivals and received numerous awards. In 2001 Nekrosius received the prestigious international Konstantin Stanislavski’s award in Moscow. In November 2002 he produced Giuseppe Verdi's opera ‘Macbeth’ at Teatro Comunale (Florence Opera).
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- [Short biography]
- [Full list of directed plays and awards]
- [Review of 'The Square' by The New York Times]
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