„TOLI TOLI“

"Far Away"
Immersive performance
The premiere is in 2025. April 5, 6

The performance takes place in Lithuanian and Russian
Creative team:
The director is Mantas Jančiauskas
Playwright - Lina Laura Švedaitė
Composer - Mantvydas Leonas Pranulis
Set designer - Ona Juciūtė
Video artist - Kristijonas Dirsė
The artist of lights is Julius Kuršys
Programmer - Robert Dumpis
Assistant director - Andrius Darela
The manager of the show is Matas Makauskas
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"Tol toli" is an experiential tour of Vilnius Old Theater, inviting you to an intimate meeting with the history and atmosphere of the theater. A fragmentary dramaturgy drawn from recordings of theater workers' stories, archival material and music will fill special, usually inaccessible spaces of the theater and lead further than what is visible to the naked eye. Lets experience the theater. Both the geography of the building and the different layers of historical and personal memory embedded in it.
The theater standing on the hill in Jonas Basanavičius Street is like a sleeping mammoth or centaur, wandering in the labyrinth of time, systems, and history. The building will wake up, speak, talk to you, about you. You will be able to witness it all. There is no doubt - you will be surprised. The performance will activate all 5 human senses: sight, hearing, smell, touch, taste receptors. You will become a theater, a story, a centaur, and these will become you.
Vilnius old theater building 1912-1914 on the then Pohulianka Street, it was built on the initiative of Hipolito Korwin-Milewski, Countess Klementina Tiškevičienė, printer and intellectual Feliks Zawadski, Mieczysław Bogdanowicz, and funds donated by the city residents. True, there were similar theaters in Europe in the 20th century. in the beginning it was full, however, this theater is unique in the context of Lithuania - one of the oldest, and this year it is already 111 years old. In the context of historical transformations, the works of Polish, Lithuanian, and Russian artists met and passed by in the theater, the walls heard probably all the languages ​​that sounded on the streets of Vilnius. This theater is the cell of the history of Lithuania and Vilnius, its DNA.
The play's dramaturgy is made up of documentary material - fragments of testimonies, sentences, a poetic collage is put together from them, voices seem to be talking to each other. The musical concept is based on the principle of field recording processing: a new, modern soundscape is formed from old performance audio recordings (texts, music), theater staff interview recordings, with the help of modern electronic, live music instruments. Scenography - the interior of the building itself, objects in it, elements of old performances, written costumes, decorations, archival material artifacts - table, photography, lamp...
"You want to invite the viewer to a certain memory meditation. At the same time, ask why we are attached to a certain past, what is our relationship with the past? Each historical period has written its own footprint, its own voice in this space. But whose memory dominates here? Who and how chooses what to remember and what to forget? How did the building, where different theaters existed, become not only the center of cultural life, but also the field of struggles for memory?" (Mantas Jančiauskas)
Each spectator will travel around the theater individually, wandering around the spaces one by one. A virtual wizard, headphones, technology will help to do this. You won't get lost. In this case, there really is an exit at the end of the maze.
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Mantas Jančiauskas (1992) - artist of the young generation, in 2018 graduated from theater directing at the Lithuanian Academy of Music and Theater (course director - Gintaras Varnas), acted in cinema. Experiments with different art forms, looks for new ways to convey stage reality, pays special attention to documentaries, site-specific theater format and technology integration, which allows to expand the experience of traditional theater and the limits of perception. In his work, he sensitively explores social topics, stands out for his innovative approach to the reality of the theater. The previous works of M. Jančiauskas ("Dreamland", "Glaistas", "Vaidina Marius Repšys", "Portalas", "Exkursija", "Tremors", "Vedami") received recognition and became theatrical events.

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