MINOR DETAIL

Name: MINOR DETAIL
Start: 2026-05-21T20:00:00+00:00
End: 2026-05-21T21:30:00+00:00

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The State Youth Theater

At the Klaipėda Drama Theatre Studio
1:30 (without intermission)

Premiere 2025

Based on the novel by Adania Shibli
Director and Author of the Adaptation Adomas Juška
Concept: Adomas Juška, Lauryna Liepaitė
Set Designer Lauryna Liepaitė
Costume Designer Elena Marija Veleckaitė
Costume Designer’s Assistant Nunilo Rumbutis
Light Designer Dainius Urbonis
Composer Ieva Parnarauskaitė
Video Artist Vytautas Narbutas
Coordinator for Filming at ASHTAR Theatre Emile Saba
Assistant Director Matas Makauskas

Cast: Viktorija Kuodytė, Aleksas Kazanavičius, Martynas Berulis, Rūta Jonikaitė, Bayan Shbib

Performance 16+

The event is standing, but seating will be available if needed

Performance in Lithuanian with English subtitles

Adomas Juška, one of the most talented young Lithuanian theatre directors, who made his debut at Youth Theatre and has already directed several stagings of complex literary works there, created a performance based on the novel “Minor Detail” by the renowned Palestinian author Adania Shibli.

“Minor Detail“ is composed of two contrasting parts. The first part tells the story of a crime that took place in 1949: a Palestinian girl was raped and murdered by Israeli soldiers. In the second part, a woman from Ramallah reads about this crime in the newspaper and realises that the day of the girl’s murder coincides with her birthday. She then embarks on a difficult and futile journey to Israel, the goal of which is to discover more information and try to uncover this story from the perspective of the murdered girl, and not based on the soldiers’ testimony.

According to the director Adomas Juška, “the book raises questions that do not give me peace. How should we talk about violence? Where is the limit that storytelling, art, or empathy cannot cross? Is a (re)telling possible that does not create a copy of the violence that occurred? What does it mean to not have power? How does this change the nature of the story? How can the stronger sympathise with the weaker if he cannot understand his or her story? We will start the rehearsals with these questions. With the story that we cannot tell and, at the same time, which we cannot leave untold”.

About The Director

Adomas Juška (1996) is a Lithuanian theatre director of the young generation. A student of Eimuntas Nekrošius, he graduated from the Lithuanian Academy of Music and Theatre in 2019 with a degree in theatre directing. Juška made his debut on the professional stage in his third year of studies, directing the performance “Švejk” at the Youth Theatre based on the famous novel by J. Hašek. His successful debut was followed by four performances that have largely shaped the director’s creative style. Juška often chooses complex, large-scale works of classical and contemporary literature, such as J. L. Borges, M. de Cervantes, and B. M. Koltès. His style is characterised as poetic. The director pays particular attention to detail, and his performances use complex rhythm, symbols, and metaphors. Juška also prioritises action, rhythm, and atmosphere over text. In 2023, Juška won the “Golden Stage Cross” as the best director of the year (the play “Western Pier” by Koltès at the Klaipėda Drama Theatre).

Adania Shibli (1974) is a Palestinian-born writer, one of the most prominent and interesting voices in contemporary literature. Her bibliography is extensive and diverse; it includes novels, plays, short stories, and narrative essays. A. Shibli gained international recognition with her third novel, “Minor detail” (Tafsil Thanawi, 2017), written over a period of 12 years. The book was soon translated and continues to be translated into many languages, and the author was nominated for the International Booker Prize for this novel in 2021. The novel was also translated into Lithuanian and published by the publishing house RARA in 2023 (translated from Arabic by Julija Gulbinovič).

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