VMT play

Marius Ivaškevičius

Kant. the room where no thinking is done

Three-part play

Preliminary duration – 4 hours

Premiere – April 25, 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

Assistant director – 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

FRIEDERIKE – Greta Bendžė

ANNA – Gintarė Latvėnaitė

JOHANN KAUFMANN – Vytautas Rumšas (Jr.)

OLD WOMAN – Ilona Kvietkutė

A year ago, at the State Small Theatre of Vilnius, director Oskaras Koršunovas presented the first act of the play "Kant". The sketch quickly garnered interest and audience sympathy. With the play "Kant", the playwright continues the theme of historical figures at the Small Theatre of Vilnius. Together with the enduringly popular plays "Madagascar" and "Mistras", the work will form a kind of trilogy. Having assembled an ensemble of talented actors well-known to the public, the renowned director Oskaras Koršunovas, who has created many excellent works together with Marius Ivaškevičius, is staging a play at the Small Theatre of Vilnius for the first time.

The play takes us to Königsberg in 1784. It is November in Prussia. There is a premonition that society will experience significant social changes. The French Revolution is already breathing down its neck. Adhering to his usual ritual of having long lunches in male company, the philosopher sits down to dine. However, this time, the peace is disturbed more than ever by the restless time in which and with which a person lives. The men's confusion is further intensified by the intrusion of Phoebe, the niece of Kant's old friend. She arrives from fog-shrouded Scotland and wants the philosopher to sign her copy of the "Critique of Pure Reason".