Kant. The Room Where No One Thinks

In 2026, the production “Kant. The Room Where No One Thinks” received the Golden Stage Cross for Best Costume Design. In 2026, the production was nominated for four Golden Stage Crosses: Best Direction; Best Supporting Actor (R. Cicėnas) and Best Supporting Actress (VMT actress I. Patkauskaitė); and Best Costume Design.

A year ago, at the State Small Theatre of Vilnius, director Oskaras Koršunovas presented the first act of the play “Kant.” The sketch quickly attracted interest and won the audience’s affection. With this play, the playwright continues the exploration of historical figures at the Small Theatre of Vilnius. “Kant. The Room Where No One Thinks,” together with the enduringly popular productions “Madagaskaras” and “Mistras,” forms a kind of trilogy.

The play is dedicated to the world around Immanuel Kant, the Prussian philosopher who astonished people not only with his thinking but also with his way of life. In his best-known work, “Critique of Pure Reason,” the philosopher set himself an almost impossible mission: to investigate the limits of reason and establish a firm foundation for metaphysics, which at the time was considered essential and unavoidable. By using reason to investigate reason’s possibilities, the philosopher created one of the most remarkable works in the history of human thought. Unlike Kant’s complex and intricate thinking, the production presents the Kantian world in an engaging and witty way, and even continues the philosopher’s own project by “investigating” dramatic form itself through theatrical means.