"TOLI TOLI"

“Far away”
Imerse performance
Premiere - 2025. April 5, 6.

The performance takes place in Lithuanian and Russian
Creative Group:
Director - Mantas Jančiauskas
Playwright - Lina Laura Švedaitė
Composer - Mantvydas Leonas Pranulis
Stage designer - Ona Juciūtė
Video artist - Christian Dirse
Light artist - Julius Kuršys
Programmer - Robertas Dumpis
The director's assistant - Andrius Darela
Performance manager - Matas Makauskas
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"Till Far" is an experienced trip to the Old Theater of Vilnius, inviting an intimate meeting with the theater history and atmosphere. Fragmented, the dramaturgy, from the records of theater staff, archival material and music, will fill the special, usually inaccessible theater spaces and lead further than visible to the naked eye. Will allow the theater to experience. Both the geography of the building and the different layers of historical and personal memory that have absorbed.
The theater on Jonas Basanavičiaus Street on a hill is like a mammoth or a Centaur who is distracted by the labyrinths of time, the order, and the history of history. The building will wake up, say, files for you. You will be able to witness all of this. There is no doubt - you will be surprised. The performance will turn on all 5 human sensations: vision, hearing, olfactory, touch, taste receptors. You will become theater, history, Centaurus, and these will become you.
Vilnius Old Theater Building 1912-1914. At the time of Pohulianka Street, Hipolitan Korwin-Milewski, Countiene Clementina Tiškevičienė, printing house and intellectual Feliksas Zawadski, Mieczysław Bogdanowicz, from the city residents, were raised. True, similar theaters in Europe in the 20th century At the beginning of the 19th century it was abundant, but this theater in the Lithuanian context is exceptional - one of the oldest, and this year has been counting 111 years. In the context of historical transformations, the work of Polish, Lithuanian and Russian artists met in the theater in the theater, and the borders heard probably all the speeches on the streets of Vilnius. This theater is a cell of Lithuanian and Vilnius history, its DNA.
The dramaturgy of the performance is made up of documentary material - fragments of testimonies, sentences, poetic collage of them, and voices seem to speak with each other. The musical concept is based on the principle of recycling of Field Recording: from the audio of old performances (texts, music), the recording of theater staff forms a new, modern audio, with contemporary electronic, live musical instruments. The scenography is the interior of the building itself, the objects it contains, the elements of old performances, the costumes written down, the artifacts of decorations, archival material - a table, photography, luminaire ...
"We want to invite the viewer to a certain memory meditation. At the same time, why we attach to a certain past, what our relationship to the past? Every historical phase recorded our trace, our voice. But whose memory dominates? Memory field? ” (Mantas Jančiauskas)
Each viewer will travel individually around the theater, and the spaces are mistaken for one. Virtual wizard, headphones, technology will help. You will not get lost. In this case, there is certainly an exit at the end of the maze.
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Mantas Jančiauskas (1992) - Young generation artist, 2018 Graduated from the theater directing at the Lithuanian Academy of Music and Theater (course leader Gintaras Varnas), played in cinema. Experiment with different art forms, looking for new ways to convey the stage reality, pay special attention to documentary, the format of the Site-Specific theater and the integration of technology, which allows the expansion of traditional theater experience and perception. In his work, he is sensitive to social topics and is distinguished by an innovative approach to the reality of theater. The works of M. Jančiauskas (Dreamland, putty, "played by Marius Repšys", "Portal", "Tour", "Treasures", "Leaded") have become recognized and became theatrical events.

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