Vilnius Puppet Theatre invites the audience to the new autumn season with a significant renewal. Lighting and audio structures were the subject of this major renovation and modernization by Sonus exsertus.
After several years of renovation work that was delayed due to various circumstances, the theater now boasts new stage technology lighting and sound systems.
According to Vilmantas Juškėnas, Head of Vilnius Puppet Theatre the newly installed modern technologies will help to ensure an even better quality of performances for theatre visitors. I am happy that the positive impact of lighting technologies – various types of spotlights, effects-creating devices – has already been felt by the audience, creators, and theatre art professionals.
“After finishing the renovation of lighting technologies, the creative conditions improved significantly. The lighting possibilities of the Great Hall have expanded, providing new conditions for image quality and artistic nuances. Therefore, we can now invite those well-known professionals in our field with whom we could not cooperate before, because we could not provide the appropriate conditions for them. Perhaps it is symbolic that our first play was created with the new lighting equipment and was called “Choice”. At the beginning of this year, the lighting artist Vilius Vilutis was nominated for the presitgious theatre award Golden Cross of the Stage for the lighting design of this performance”, says V. Juškėnas.
Tomas Fabijonavičius, Project Manager at Sonus exsertus is open that the work of upgrading the technologies of Vilnius Puppet Theatre was not an easy task. We had to solve the mistery of an incomplete implementation of the outdated technology that was once installed.
Technology installation work was made more complicated by the fact that the premises of the Puppet Theatre are cultural heritage. The walls of the theatre, housed in the historical complex of the Oginskii Palace in the capital’s old town, are specially protected. Therefore, sound technologies had to be implemented with minimal intervention.
Satisfied with the result, the Theatre Manager V. Juškėnas hopes that the Theatre, after receiving the necessary funding, they will be able to finish the rest of the installation of sound equipment and update the video projection systems in the next stage.
Currently, the total value of repair and technology renewal of Vilnius Puppet Theatre is over 2.2 million euros. The theatre renovation project is financed by the State of the Republic of Lithuania, under the coordination of the Ministry of Culture of the Republic of Lithuania, in consultation with the Lithuanian Cultural Infrastructure Center.
