This performance is atypically austere for the Lithuanian star director Oskaras Koršunovas. He himself tells about the performance: "This is our first theatrical performance, in which we don’t concentrate on the result, but seek to test and discover ourselves, so that the actors not only create their characters, but also retain the reality and remain themselves. Gorky’s text becomes relevant only when the actor is able to grow his or her character in his or her soil, so to speak, basing it on his or her own experience. This is the highest aim of the laboratory. It is an intersection between the actor’s personality and the character he or she is creating, a stranger."
Here you will not find the overwhelming theatricality and playing with cultural symbols, so characteristic for Koršunovas' former work. In this performance "the fourth wall" is destroyed up to a level that the actor and the spectator become like real friends. For a spectator the presence in a view of an actor is so unavoidable that you feel sitting around the same table as actors do and asking the same questions - to yourself.
"The Lower Depths" (premiered on October 22, 2010) has been awarded as the Best Lithuanian Performance in 2010, and Darius Gumauskas performing Actor - as the Best Lithuanian Actor.
New Theatre Institute of Latvia have already presented in Riga "P.S. File OK" (Homo Novus 1997), "Shopping & Fucking" (Homo Novus 1999), "Fireface" (Homo Alibi 2000) and "Midsummer Night Dream" (2000) by Oskaras Koršunovas.