"Starting Point“ organised since 2016 by Kaunas City Chamber Theatre an international youth theater festival is being organized, inviting us to look at the world of young people through their eyes. Bold, sensitive, and experimental performances reflect the everyday lives of young people, revealing topics of concern and inner dramas.

Every year, the festival not only presents a program of young Lithuanian and foreign performing arts creators, but also organizes sketch contest, creative workshops with artists, during which we invite everyone who wants to awaken their inner creativity.

The Starting Point is a mosaic of various Lithuanian and foreign theaters, actors, directors, and theater enthusiasts, which allows you to see in a concentrated two-week period what the next generation of performing artists is talking about.

The 10th theater festival "IŠEITIES TAŠKAS" will take place from September 23 to October 5, 2025.

STARTING POINT: a stage for youth, courage and change

While many theatres talked and still talk about how important is the audience of young people and teenagers and how difficult it is to get them interested in the performing arts, Kaunas City Chamber Theatre has taken action and seems to have found one of the most effective ways already. I am referring to the youth theatre festival “Starting Point”, which has been organised since 2016, and whose initiator, the theatre manager Jurga Knyvienė, and her active team have been consistently working on their own task for all these years - to meet the expectations of the young audience, while at the same time trying to provide meaningful, quality content. It is valuable that from the very beginning several fundamental objectives have been respected: to address the often sensitive, sometimes even uncomfortable issues of young people's lives; and to enable the younger generation of creators (sometimes those who are still making their debuts) to present their work. M. Munderzbakaitė, Nemunas