VMU Academic student theatre
VMU Academic Student Theatre was established in 2006. In 2011–2012, the theatre consisted of several dozen members from various university faculties. The theatre worked on a studio-based principle: members studied the fundamentals of psychological theatre, explored Konstantin Stanislavski’s and Mikhail Chekhov’s actor training methods, developed imagination, attention, and fantasy, and assimilated the essential psychological principles of character creation. Plastic movement exercises and training sessions were also conducted, and various études were created.
- In 2008, the play “Eurydice” by Jean Anouilh (dir. Agnė Dilytė) was staged and presented at the international university theatre forum “Traces of Generations.”
- In 2009, on the initiative of several students from the VDU Faculty of Arts, the theatre was revived. Together with other university arts collectives, in December it prepared the children’s performance “The Wolf’s Christmas” (dir. Ina Pukelytė), presented in the Grand Hall.
- In 2010, the theatre company participated in the festival “Theatre in the Foyer,” organized by the VDU Arts Centre, where it presented a performance based on short stories by Daniil Kharms, “Stories of Small People in a Big City” (dir. Goda Piktytė). In October, the first anniversary of the new collective was celebrated, and the name “ERRO” (from Latin, meaning “wanderers”) was added to the theatre’s title.
- In 2011, the premiere of the performance “A Dream of One Part,” based on Samuel Beckett’s drama “That Time” and texts by various 20th-century playwrights (dir. Justinas Kalinauskas), took place at the VDU Art Gallery “101.”
- In 2015, the premiere of the performance “The Event” (dir. Vaidas Maksvytis) was presented at the VDU Faculty of Arts.