In order to not only encourage young artists, but also to provide real support for the realisation of their ideas, every year we are launching an open call for young performing artists to propose ideas for productions for young audiences (14-29 years old).
Taking into account the experts' opinions, we select the most suitable ideas for the theatre's repertoire and provide funding for the creation of work-in-progress (up to 15 minutes), which are presented publicly during the “Starting Point” festival.
The sketch competition, which has already produced a number of award-winning theatre productions, presents “test versions” of 3-4 performances by 3-4 stage artists, and all the entries are judged and the best one is chosen not only by the theatre's artistic council, but also by the audience themselves, who vote after each performance on a special scorecard.
The winner of the sketch competition is given the opportunity to create a full-length performance, which is then included in the repertoire of Kaunas City Chamber Theatre.
2024
The winner of the competition is Džiugas Kunsmanas with his sketch “ICARUS”.
"Icarus - the search for dreams and motivation. What did the first people who tried to get off the ground believe? What did the first attempts or devices to fly look like when others thought it impossible? It is an experience that encourages new solutions and creative approaches to discover how and where we can spend our time. The performance uses elements of contemporary circus acrobatics intertwined with projections - a new relationship is sought between the performer and the visual material, as between equal or complementary stage elements.
Estimated premiere date: 2025 September 5
2023
Eskizų konkurso laimėtojas – Karolis Zajauskas su eskizu „PITERIS PENAS”.
Have you ever felt your childhood slipping away while the winds are still in your heart? "Peter Pan is a fairy tale for adults, but not necessarily for those who feel that way.
Imagine: a strange boy keeps flashing before Wendy's eyes. He comes to her like a whisper - gentle as a spring breeze, distant as a mirage. And when Peter finally appears in all his essence - playful, carefree, full of secrets - the girl receives an offer her adventurous heart can't resist.
Premiere: 2025 March
You can see the performance in the Main Hall: https://www.kamerinisteatras.lt/Performance/performances/Piteris-Penas-PREMJERA/
2022
The winner of the sketch competition is Balys Švedas with his sketch “THE WRITER AND THE BIRTH MOTHER”.
The pauses in the reading of a play about the sensitive issues of suicide are dictated by the lighting, and the sounds of wind and keyboard instruments spill onto the stage. The dialogue between the two characters, the writer and the mother, is triggered by the questions raised by the suicide, and it is a dialogue that narrates, but does not answer a single question, maybe only raises more. It is hoped that this sketch will engage both young and older audiences and allow those who have not done so before to engage with these topics - talking is one of the few things that prove to us that we are alive.
2021
The winners of the competition are Adrian Carlo Bibiano and Arūnas Mozūraitis with “A FAIR DISTANCE”.
A dialogue between two bodies and personalities through movement about what makes our whole social world go round and round: immediacy and detachment, belonging and liberation, an all-encompassing duality in which connection is impossible without distance and distance is born in connection.
Premiere: 2022
AWARDS:
- 2023 FORTUNE statuette for the dance performance (Kaunas City Chamber Theatre and Nuepiko)
Another participant of the contest - Goda Simonaitytė with her play ANIMALS successfully transformed the work in the form of a full performance in collaboration with the Art and Science Laboratory, and this work became a part of the repertoire of Kaunas City Chamber Theatre.
In the play, a years-long bullying conflict develops between two students in the same class, Dan and Luther. Love is also involved - they both like the same classmate. Things take a more complicated turn when, during a party, Den, defending his friend, calls Luther a mutt, offending his father, the school teacher.
Premiere: 2022
You can see the performance in the Main Hall: https://www.kamerinisteatras.lt/Performance/performances/Gyvuliai/
2020
Andrius Šiurys took part in the competition in the same year with his sketch KAFKOJE, kuris Kauno miesto kamerinio teatro repertuare dabar yra žinomas kaip „KAFKA INSOMNIA” (rež. Žilvinas Vingelis).
"KAFKA INSOMNIA tells the dreamlike, realistic story of one sleepless night of Czech writer Franz Kafka. Is dreaming while being awake a creative method, a way of life, a consequence of illness, or a fundamental condition for the genius of Kafka's literary world?
The play premiered in 2020
AWARDS:
- 2020 m. FORTŪNOS diploma composer Andrius Šiurius, for his music for the play.
- Composer Andrius Šiurys for Best Music Nominated for the Golden Stage Cross 2021.
- 2022 Lithuanian Theatre Spring Prize the creative team of Kafka Insomnia (directed by Ž. Vingelis) for their audiovisual interpretation of Kafka's work.
2019
Eskizų konkurso laimėtojas – Naubertas Jasinskas su eskizu „BOWEL’
BOWEL, which creates a different theatrical experience, analyses the interaction between identity and the everyday influences that shape it. Reality is intertwined with the virtual world, and monotony and routine are explored through images and sensations. These states become the basis of the action and are experienced by the protagonists in a surreal and comic world.
The play premiered in 2021
AWARDS:
- Director Naubertas JASINSKAS awarded the Golden Stage Cross in 2022 for Bowelas the best young artist.
- 2022 FORTUNE diploma for the creative team of bowel dir. N. Jasinskas
You can see the performance in the Main Hall: https://www.kamerinisteatras.lt/Performance/performances/PREMJERA-KAFKA-INSOMNIA/
