In January 2013 70 refuge seekers took hold of one of the churches in Austria’s capital Vienna. By doing so they wanted to make the society and government aware of their situation. The protest was organised against inhuman conditions in one of the refugee camps not far away from Vienna. The seekers were only asking for better translators, work permits, the right for their children to go to school and finally to stop changing the camp’s inner rules daily. For most of them deportation to their original country meant nothing else but death. It did not, however, stop Austria from sending the majority of the refugees back home as soon as the coming summer. This event became the initial throb that prompted an Austrian writer, Nobel Prize winner Elfriede Jelinek to write the play “The Seekers” in the summer of 2013.

Set designer

random heroes

Costume designer

Juozas Valenta

Composer

Gintaras Sodeika

Director assistant

Antanas Obcarskas

Cast

Gediminas Rimeika, Greta Petrovskytė, Ugnė Šiaučiūnaitė, Žygimantė Elena Jakštaitė, Kamilė Petruškevičiūtė, Eimantas Pakalka, Augustė Pociūtė, Inga Šepetkaitė, Kęstutis Cicėnas, Gailė Butvilaitė, Lukas Malinauskas, Oskar Vygonovski, Uršulė Bartoševičiūtė, Viktorija Žukauskaitė, Ignas Gužauskas, Martynas Ališauskas, Paulina Taujanskaitė, Artiom Rybakov, Anca Pitaru, Taura Kvietinskaitė

Fotos : Laura Vansevičienė