Chroma — mmlab

ABOUT

In ancient Greek, CHROMA means color; the word refers to the purity of color and its freedom from white or gray.

Chroma is a story about the limits of language, image, and the human desire for beauty. The play is created by examining the relationship between an aging writer who has lost faith in the power of language, and a young man – the embodiment of unattainable beauty. Searching for ways to capture reality, the writer, almost obsessed, films everything with his camera, trying to grasp what he can no longer convey in words.

The play explores what remains when language crumbles under the burden of personal and societal violence. The writer’s inability to express his desires reflects the broader silencing of queer voices in a world increasingly marked by radicalization and intolerance.

Inspired by the novella “Death in Venice” by Thomas Mann and the personal story and work of British filmmaker Derek Jarman, the play Chroma explores the contradictory nature of beauty and desire – the forces having the power to attract, suppress, fascinate and destroy, – as well as loneliness, aging, and longing for youth that can be admired, but no longer touched.

The members of the play’s creative team became laureates of the 2024 Dalia Tamulevičiūtė National Playwriting Competition.

The play contains nudity, the recommended age limit is 16+.

CREATIVE TEAM

Authors of the performance — Naubertas Jasinskas & Maksym Teteruk
Set design – Sigita Šimkūnaitė
Costume design – Liucija Kvašytė
Composer – Dominykas Digimas
Video design – Vytautas Plukas
Choreographer – Ieva Navickaitė
Light design – Dainius Urbonis
Executive Lighting Designer – Povilas Apulis
Director assistants — Lukas Petrauskas, Emilija Griškonytė
Translator from Polish and Russian – Irena Aleksaitė
Translator for subtitles – Alexandra Bondarev
Intimacy Coordinator – Virginija Vareikytė
Performer (for recordings) – Arnas Kmieliauskas
Producer – Rusnė Kregždaitė
Head of communication – Rasa Kregždaitė
Manager – Greta Senkutė
Rehearsal Translators – Elmyra Ragimova, Oksana Lukovič, Aleksandra Bondarev, Oskar Wygonowski
Intern - Miglė Cirulytė

CAST
Darius Gumauskas
Motiejus Aškelovičius
Kristina Andrejauskaitė
Rūta Jonikaitė

Actors in video: Kristina Andrejauskaitė, Rūta Jonikaitė, Motiejus Aškelovičius, Darius Gumauskas, Matas Sigliukas, Martynas Berulis, Lukas Petrauskas, Saulius Sipaitis, Eginta Radžiūnaitė, Liucija Kvašytė, Mantas Jasinskas, šuo Dzeusas, Greta Senkutė, Naubertas Jasinskas, Maksym Teteruk, Ieva Navickaitė, Rusnė Kregždaitė

Sepecial thanks: Vytautas Kregždė, Kristina Rancova, Andrius Staniukėnas, Karolina Petrovskaja, Vladislav Bajaznyj, Andrej Jelizarov, Turmanto kultūros namai, LGT Infra, LTG Link