VMT Premiere | KANT. THE ROOM WHERE NO THINKING IS DONE

Marius Ivaškevičius KANT. THE ROOM WHERE NO THINKING IS DONE A play in three parts Approximate duration – 4 hours Premiere – 25 April 2025 Director – Oskaras Koršunovas Set designer – Gintaras Makarevičius Video artist – Rimas Sakalauskas Choreographer – Vesta Grabštaitė Costume designer – Sandra Straukaitė Composer – Antanas Jasenka Lighting designer – Eugenijus Sabaliauskas Content consultant – Vincentas Klipčius Director's assistant – Andrius Merkevičius Cast: IMMANUEL KANT – Kirilas Glušajevas MARTIN LAMPE – Ramūnas Cicėnas PHOEBE – Indrė Patkauskaitė JOHANN SCHULTZ – Mantas Vaitiekūnas JOHANN VIGILANTIUS – Daumantas Ciunis JOHANN SCHEFFNER – Leonardas Pobedonoscevas JOEL – Jokūbas Bareikis FREDERICA – Greta Bendžė ANNA – Gintarė Latvėnaitė JOHANN KAUFMANN – Vytautas Rumšas (jr.) THE OLD WOMAN – Ilona Kvietkutė A year ago, at the Vilnius Small State Theatre, director Oskaras Koršunovas presented the first act of the play "Kant". The sketch quickly attracted interest and the affection of audiences. With the play "Kant", the playwright continues the theme of historical figures at the Vilnius Small Theatre. The work will form a kind of trilogy alongside the perennially popular productions "Madagascar" and "Mister". Bringing together an ensemble of talented actors well-known to audiences, director Oskaras Koršunovas stages a production at the Vilnius Small Theatre for the first time, having previously collaborated with Marius Ivaškevičius on numerous outstanding works. The play transports us to Königsberg in 1784. It is November in Prussia. There is a premonition that society will undergo significant social changes. The Great French Revolution is already breathing down its neck. Following his usual ritual of dining at length in male company, the philosopher sits down to eat. Yet this time, the meal is disturbed more than ever before by the restless age in which and with which a man lives. The men's disquiet is further amplified by the intrusion of Phoebe, the niece of Kant's old friend. She arrives from fog-shrouded Scotland wishing the philosopher to sign his "Critique of Pure Reason". The play is dedicated to the milieu of the philosopher Immanuel Kant, who astonished not only by his thinking but also by his way of life. With his most famous work, "Critique of Pure Reason", the philosopher had set himself an almost impossible mission – to examine the limits of reason and to lay solid foundations for the science of metaphysics, which at the time was considered necessary and inevitable. By using reason to examine reason's own possibilities, the philosopher creates one of the most remarkable works in the history of human thought. Unlike Kant's complex and convoluted thinking, the production presents the Kantian world in an engaging and witty manner, and even continues the philosopher's own project by "examining" dramatic form itself through theatrical means. Additional information: N-14

Adresas: Valstybinis Vilniaus mažasis teatras, Vilnius