Dear audience,
The play AVINAI, originally scheduled for October 14, 2026, at 6:00 PM, has been rescheduled to December 2, 2026, at 6:00 PM. Tickets already held by the audience will be valid for the new date; there is no need to exchange them.
If the new date for the rescheduled play does not work for you, you may return your tickets and receive a refund. Please submit your ticket refund request here: https://www.bilietai.lt/apacia/howtobuy/23-66-20/ticket-refund-application
Tickets can be returned from September 1, 2026, to September 14, 2026.
We apologize to the audience for any inconvenience.
Playwright - Raimondas KLEZYS
Director - Justas TERTELIS
Set Designer - Indrė PAČĖSAITĖ
Composer - Matas SALADŽIUS
Cast - Raimondas KLEZYS
Actor Raimondas Klezys shares stories from his life with young audiences (the play is intended for teenagers aged 14 and up). Through tales about childhood, games, shows watched, and conversations with his grandmother, more serious themes emerge, presented playfully and with humor.
In this immersive play, everyone can get involved as much as they like, and the audience's responses shape a different version of the performance each time. The ball used in the play becomes not just a game element, but a creative tool that allows the audience to be drawn into a personal story through play – one that is open, sensitive, and invites self-recognition.
"Your father went to warmer lands and he is a ram (avinas)," Raimondas's grandmother told him in his childhood. Are our parents really rams? Will we grow up to be different from them, or are we exactly the same? The one-man show "Avinai" – a joint creation by actor and playwright Raimondas Klezys and director Justas Tertelis – invites reflection on resentment, anger, and forgiveness – topics that young people do not always feel brave enough to discuss with their peers.
Actor Raimondas Klezys says that expressions like "sheep herd" or "dumb as a sheep" are particularly common in schools. "You can feel like a real sheep living in a herd, for whom everything is decided by a shepherd, whose equivalent in life can be anything – fate, God, a boss, etc. In this play, I want to shake up a young person's brain and ask the question: are you really doing, learning, and acting in a way that you would like to in your life? Or is it just a culture of imitation, where you do things just because you have to? Just because those are the rules and that's how your great-grandparents, grandparents, or other relatives did it," explains Raimondas Klezys regarding the subtext of the title.
He adds that theater is a means to talk, befriend, and analyze. "Therefore, while performing this play, I involve the audience in live action, valuing what happens here and now. In this way, I try to create a space where a young person is seen, heard, and important," says the actor.
The play "Avinai" was awarded the "Golden Stage Cross" in 2024 as the best play for a young audience.
Producer: "No Shoes Theatre"
The play is partially funded by the Lithuanian Council for Culture.