“His arrival is associated with new winds, new inspiration in Klaipeda Drama Theater. There was a big impulse when he came, “T. Jučys told BNS on Sunday.
P.Gaidys, who died on Sunday, worked as an actor and director at the Klaipėda Drama Theater from 1963 to 1998, then directed it for three years.
From 2001 to 2016, P.Gaidys was the artistic director of the theater.
The director has created more than 80 performances.
T.Juočys emphasized that Klaipėda Drama Theater is 86 years old, so P.Gaidys worked in it for more than half of his life.
“It simply came to our notice then. There are not many such figures in the theater, but he was not alone and there was a potential and very good ensemble next to him, ”said the head of the drama theater.
“P.Gaidys himself has raised and educated a lot of actors. He was never ambiguous and always knew how to give the most to the theater and educated his students to do the same, ”T.Juočys recalled.
According to him, P. Gaidys had a very good sense of humor: “He does not understand whether he was serious or joking. It was very interesting to be with him as a person, as a personality. “
Shot from the film / Povilas Gaidys also starred in the film “Elze from Gilija”.
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“Sometimes he spoke angrily, but it wasn’t angry, it was irony. It was necessary to get to know Povilas Gaidis well so that you could understand it, ”T. Juuoys said.
Asked about P.Gaidis’ artistic contribution, the director of Klaipėda Drama Theater stated that it was of “historical significance”.
“P. Gaidys was especially sharp in Soviet times, when that sharpness was not desirable. He was brave, “said T. Jučys.
After leaving the position of artistic director of the theater, P. Gaidys staged two more performances. The last was the tragicomedy “Parade”, which appeared in 2019.
P.Gaidys was often called a comedy master in the art world.
15min.lt photo / Povilas Gaidys, commemorating his 75th birthday.
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According to T.Juitis, the director so named was not in vain.
“This genre is the most complicated, so such a name was not attached to him just for himself. He was really a master of his work, ”said the head of the theater.
P.Gaidys died at the age of 85.
He was awarded the LSSR State Prize in 1979, received the Officer’s Cross of the Order of Gediminas in 2002, and the Golden Cross of the Stage in 2014.
From 1971 to 1995, P.Gaidys taught at the Lithuanian Academy of Music in Klaipėda faculties, and from 1995 at Klaipėda University.
Photo by Teodoras Biliūnas / Žmonės.lt/Actor Povilas Gaidys with his wife actress Elena Gaigalaitė
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In his youth, P.Gaidys himself studied at the Acting Mastery Department of the Vilnius Conservatory, later he studied at the A.Lunačiarskis Theater Art Institute and the Faculty of Directing in Moscow.
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