Žiurkės

The play centres on a housekeeper Mrs John, the archetype of all mothers and wives. The order of the theatre director Harro Hassenreuter's costume loft, John's own home, family, brother, husband all depend on her... But there is so much more that can encompass a woman—a baby would fill her life, while Pauline Pipercarca, a young maid, is expecting an unplanned and unwanted child. Their meeting in an attic crammed with old costumes and props is the start of a detective story that will involve the inhabitants of the house and the police, leading to a tragic conclusion.

According to the director A. Gornatkevičius, the play "Rats" is primarily about social exclusion and inequality, and it highlights the deep causes of alienation and radicalisation of a society. The encounter of different social strata in one enclosed space in the work reveals the different perceptions of the world and the goals these groups have for themselves. The portrait of a woman in "Rats" is particularly vivid, raising not so much the issue of inner desires and fears, but the issue of the surrounding environment and imposed roles, as well as the issue of the autonomy of the body, which is being so vividly reconsidered in the Western world today. With its storyline and subtle humour, the work once again reminds us of the true joy of a strong dramatic work on the theatre stage.