Our festival currently focuses on students with diverse university backgrounds and specialisations. We try to create a space where students can meet, make new connections, build new teams, try themselves in practice, have meaningful discussions about theatre and art, and talk about what we really care about. By organising the festival in English, foreigners living in Vilnius have the opportunity to get to know the local cultural scene better, and to facilitate their integration and full communication.
The festival is an experiment in terms of its format, the format of teamwork and the openness of the performance creation process. In the laboratory, the process will not follow the usual methodology where each part of the performance is created by different people at the same time, but where everything is created by a single team, day by day. The audience will be able to observe the group dynamics, the parallel development of ideas and the development of the participant groups. The festival raises the question of how closed the theatrical process should be, whether it is possible to think about the product separately from the process of its creation; the festival itself is a practice of such an open process.
The events will take place in the courtyard of Savičiaus 17, opposite the entrance from Bokšto str.
On 19 August, the first day of the festival, participants and spectators will get to know the phenomenon of street theatre.
-12:00 – a lecture by Markas Lieberman on the specifics of street theatre.
20 August will be dedicated to the immersion of the participants of the laboratory into the space of play.
Marija Baranauskaitė-Liberman, who is involved in contemporary circus and clowning, will do a practice together with the students, which will help them to get to know each other better, to feel what is play, and to understand why it is essential for the creation of a performance.
-15.30 – the audience will be able to observe the process.
21 August will be dedicated to the creation of texts for future performances, each participating team will have a theme and three antique objects to include in the performance.
-11:00 – a lecture by Birutė Kapustinskaitė on scriptwriting. Birutė will talk about how to find the right ways to express an idea, to start a dialogue about something important, a dialogue that takes place within us and between us and the readers and the audience.
-17:00 – a presentation of each team’s scripts for their future performances.
22 August will be dedicated to working with space.
-11:00- a lecture by the creative duo IevaKrish on working with the involvement of the performance in the space, the audience in the performance and in the space, how these three components interact, and working with the visual component.
-17:00 – presentation of the set and costumes for the upcoming performances.
23 August will be dedicated to the creation of sound tracks for future performances.
-11:00 – a lecture by Antanas Jasenka on the history of music and the creation of soundtracks, in which he will talk about the evolution and role of music, the phenomenon of musical thinking and rhythm.
-17:00 – Presentation of soundtracks for upcoming performances.
24 August will be dedicated to the acting and directing part of the performance.
-11:00 – a lecture by Agnius Jankavičius on acting and directing. Agnius will share the principles of directing, the peculiarities of teamwork and how to keep the attention when creating a theatre piece, not to remain only in the process, but to bring it to a tangible and meaningful end.
25 August will be dedicated to the merging of the previously created parts of the performance.
-11:00 – a lecture by Paulius Ignatavičius on the last stage of the work on the play – the merging of its parts. Based on his own experience, Paulius will talk about the pitfalls, dangers and possibilities of this stage of the work, how not to lose sight of the original idea.
On 26 August, the last day of the festival, the teams will present their work to the audience.
-15:00 – final performance of the street theatre works will take place.
-18:00 – discussion of the performances.
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About the event in the media:
https://sc.bns.lt/view/item/490038
https://ivento.lt/out-of-context/
https://www.kaveikti.lt/renginys/10684-gatves-teatro-festivalis-laboratorija-
https://renginiaivilniuje.lt/out-of-context/
A conversation in the LRT Klasika studio
The festival is fully funded by the European Humanities University’s development fund, with support from the European Commission.