online performance

#Protest

#Protest

First online (anti)utopia in Lithuania.

September 9, 2026

Next event

@HOUSE OF HISTORIES

November 10, 2026

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KAUNAS CITY CHAMBER THEATRE | “Iš Arti” Contemporary Music Festival

November 12, 2026

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RASEINIAI CULTURE CENTRE | “IŠ ARTI” THEATRE FESTIVAL | RASEINIAI

Age

Duration

120 min

Premiere

2020-04-26

#Protest – the cast on video calls shown on several screens
Tomas Terekas

About the work

In the spring of 2020, inspired by the COVID-19 quarantine, theatrical performance becomes a process — not a finished work, but a responsive system that is constantly renewing itself. The actors log in directly from their homes and perform a play streamed to the audience in real time. Delays, glitches, and intimacy in virtual space become the live dramaturgy.

The play transports us to the year 2220 – in the perfectly organised country of Monaksia… However, the context of the present day brings a socio-political dimension: the violence of lukashenko regime in Belarus, the poisoning of Alexei Navalny, and the criminalization of protests.

The performance was projected directly onto the windshield of a “Zhiguli”, parked in front of the russian embassy, where v.putin (a mannequin) was sitting. The long-unspoken truths of Monaksia return as action: #PROTEST.

This period feels historic and it’s shaping us in new ways. A dreadful disease, psychological isolation, mechanisms of fear, paranoia, and uncertainty. While doctors are fighting the disease at the front lines, artists can try to combat people’s loneliness

Director Žilvinas Vingelis

Team

Creative team

Play by

Goda Simonaitytė

Concept & Director

Žilvinas Vingelis

Producer

Darius Vizbaras

Video Artist

Kornelijus Jaroševičius

Composer

Andrius Šiurys

Set & Costume Designer

Dovilė Gecaitė

Visuals

Deividas Breivė

On stage

On stage

Vilma Raubaitė, Šarūnas Banevičius, Gytis Laskovas, Deividas Breivė, Saulė Sakalauskaitė, Kamilė Lebedytė

Photos

Gallery

#Protest – the cast on video calls shown on several screens
#Protest – spectators stand in front of a large outdoor projection at night
#Protest – a projected male face with light streaks
#Protest – a woman’s face repeated in a layered projection
#Protest – screens filled with collaged portraits
#Protest – spectators with umbrellas look at their phones in a rainy square
#Protest – a lit shop window with people at a table, seen from the dark street
#Protest – a face projected across several screens in the dark
#Protest – spectators walk across a square at night towards a projection
#Protest – spectators gather in a wet square in front of a lit church
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Awards · nominations

Recognition

2020

Golden Stage Cross | "Pandemic resistant theatre"

Premiere

2020-04-26

Online (no physical venue)

Regardless, one thing is clear: theatre cannot be stopped by pandemics or wars

— Kamilė Pirštelytė · 7md.lt

Calendar

Upcoming dates

September 9, 2026

September 9, 2026

@HOUSE OF HISTORIES

Price

from €4

November 10, 2026

November 10, 2026

KAUNAS CITY CHAMBER THEATRE | “Iš Arti” Contemporary Music Festival

Price

from €15

November 12, 2026

November 12, 2026

RASEINIAI CULTURE CENTRE | “IŠ ARTI” THEATRE FESTIVAL | RASEINIAI

Price

Free

Partner

Kaunas City Chamber Theatre

Funded by

Lithuanian Council for Culture