V.Grainytė, L.Lapelytė, R.Barzdžiukaitė - Have a good day!

The opera focuses on the inner lives of cashiers in a shopping centre: show- ing what lies behind their mechanical “Good afternoon!”, “Thank you!”, “Have a good day!”, and fake smiles. Faceless, robot-like shop workers found in everyday life are transformed into unique and lively characters of the opera. Their secret thoughts and biographies turn into short, personal dramas. The characters of different salesclerks embody universal archetypes, conveying the predominant social landscape. The libretto is a revealing mosaic of spoken, literary language and documentary.

The atmosphere of the supermarket is established through glimmering and buzzing installation of daylight lamps and environmental sounds, connecting the audience to the stage and the ten cashiers. The set itself is very minimalist. Real goods – the recognizable décor of a shopping centre – exist only in acoustic and verbal form. Monotonous beeping of each item being scanned is the key sound of the whole opera. It gets louder or quieter, but it is always present. Songs of the cashiers that accompany the beeping are as monotonous as the very process of shopping and selling. Creators of the opera try to avoid any moral or condemnatory suggestion: critical attitude towards capitalism is expressed through humour, irony and poetry.