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".
The play is dedicated to the environment of the philosopher Immanuel Kant, who surprised people not only with his thinking but also with his lifestyle. With his most famous work, "Critique of Pure Reason", the philosopher had set himself an almost impossible mission – to investigate the limits of reason and create solid foundations for the science of metaphysics, which was considered necessary and inevitable in the world of that time. By using reason to explore the possibilities of reason, the philosopher created one of the most impressive works in the history of human thought. Unlike Kant's complex and convoluted thinking, the play presents the Kantian world in an engaging and witty way, and even continues the philosopher's own project by "investigating" the dramatic form itself through dramatic means.
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