A cage you can't see is still a cage.
A psychological play about modern American life, people's alienation, society's likening to a zoo.
Acting
Butkevičius delivers physical theatre that screams.
Direction
Morkevičius traps you in Brechtian nightmare.
Production
Minimalist set that feels increasingly suffocating.
Director
Bronius Morkevičius
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Made in Soviet Lithuania, the zoo metaphor directly critiqued state surveillance while pretending to be about America.
Based on Edward Albee's The Zoo Story but relocated to existential nowhere — the 'American' setting allowed coded dissident commentary.
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