Forms of Rimas Tuminas' theatre of memory

In the theatre of Rimas Tuminas various sorts of memory, materialized in the suggestive scenic forms, are topical. They involve historical and cultural, individual and collective memory, theatrical memory in general and the memory of the Small Theatre of Vilnius. In this respect, two performances of Rimas Tuminas are of major importance: Smile Upon Us, Lord based on the novels by Grigorijus Kanovičius (1994) and Three Sisters by Anton Chekhov (2005). In these performances Tuminas uses different aspects of the ritual when seeking to invoke the cultural, personal and collective memory, while he represents the memory of theatrical culture using mainly the devices of the theatre of play