ABOUT THE FESTIVAL

Dive into the theatre!
25 April – 14 June 2024

This year, the National Kaunas Drama Theatre Festival “Dive into Theatre 2024” invites you to dive into theatre and try out contemporary forms of interactive theatre in 2024 from 25 April to 14 June. Forget the old days when a panic-stricken spectator, realising too late that a performance was going to be “interactive”, would have to stand on the stage in tears. Modern theatre offers many new ways to engage audiences in a tactful and inventive way. The basis of interactive theatre is the audience as a co-creator, influencing the content and/or form of the performance. However, each performance in our programme has a different goal. Some performances invite us to play, others to share experiences. There will be performances that invite you to engage in a very personal way and others that invite you to discover the artist and the inventor in yourself. Either way, the experience of an interactive performance will be completely unique, because you have created it here and now. This year’s special festival programme will feature 6 performances. Two of them come from Norway, two from Hungary and two premieres of the National Kaunas Drama Theatre are presented at this festival. The curator of the special programme is Gábor Takács, head of the educational association Káva Drama (Káva Kulturális Műhely, Hungary), actor and drama teacher. For the last 20 years he has been developing a democratic theatre genre, whose key concepts are interactivity, partnership, multiplicity of aspects, participation, critique and questioning.
IMMERSE YOURSELF IN THE ACTION!