Education
In 1978 Nekrošius graduated from Lunacharsky Institute of Theatre Arts in Moscow.
In 1978 Nekrošius graduated from Lunacharsky Institute of Theatre Arts in Moscow.
After returning to Lithuania Nekrošius has been working in the Vilnius State Youth Theatre from 1978 until 1979. In 1979 he moved to the Kaunas State Drama Theatre, where he stayed for a year until 1980. 1980 he returned to Vilnius State Youth Theatre, where he staged series of notable plays:
Among the features characteristic to his plays are the soothing background music of a repetitive pattern throughout the performance, extensive use of dance and movement and unique props on stage, as well as an employment of natural substances as water, fire, wind, ice and stone.
The length of a single performance often exceeds conventional viewing time, since Nekrošius favours complex and challenging pieces to stage, such as the Song of Songs or The Seasons by Kristijonas Donelaitis.
The Square (1980),
Pirosmani, Pirosmani (1981),
Rock opera Love and Death in Verona by Sigitas Geda and K. Antanėlis’ (1982, renewed in 1996),
Chinghiz Aitmatov"s The Day Lasts More Than a Hundred Years (1983),
Anton Chekhov"s Uncle Vanya (1986),
Nikolai Gogol"s The Nose (1991),
Little Tragedies by Aleksandr Pushkin,
Hamlet by William Shakespeare (1997),
Macbeth (2002) (Bolshoi theater, Moscow)
The Children of Rosenthal (2005) (Bolshoi theater, Moscow)
Johann Wolfgang Goethe"s Faust (2006). "The Idiot" by Fiodor Dostojevski (2009);
"Caligula" by A.Camus (Theater of Nations, Moscow, Russia) (2011);
"Divine Comedy" by Dante Alighieri (2012);
"Paradise" by Dante Alighieri (2013);
"The Book of Job" based on The Old Testament (2014).