Psilicone theatre

12/06/2026

Lituanika's shoes have reached Ravenna! 🇮🇹 More precisely, we took over Darsena—the city's former industrial district where Michelangelo Antonioni filmed his iconic Red Desert. Right there, inside a historic grain warehouse, our performance "Hearts and Chimneys" released yellow smoke à la Antonioni, poured out the fluids from blisters rubbed raw by Soviet-era shoes, and unleashed the entire Committee of Red Cannibals.
A huge thanks to:
Festival Internazionale Arrivano dal Mare for having us!
Arkady Gotesman for the pure joy of performing this opus together.
Urtė Grigaliūnaitė for organizing the "Focus on Lithuania" showcase.
Kaunas State Puppet Theatre for your warm and friendly support.
Kristina Steiblytė for naming us the "gourmet dessert" on the Lithuanian puppet theater menu! 🍰
Lithuanian Culture Institute for making this possible.
Lithuania’s wonderful representatives in Italy—Cultural Attaché Laura Gabrielaitytė and Ambassador Dalia Kreivienė.
My endless thanks to Darius Petrulis and my eternal friend Sintija! ❤️

13/09/2024

"Hearts & Chimneys" - the drama of Kaunas shoe factory "Lituanica" (1934 - 2020) accompanied by the magic percussion of Arkady Gotesman. As long as we made our own boots,
we knew where we were going. Premiere at international theatre festival Contempo, Kaunas, 2024 08 05.

20/07/2024

Preparing our shoe repair shop :) Psilicone theatre premiere „Hearts and Chimneys“ at ConTempo festival 5 and 6 th August, 19:00, K. Donelaitis Street 8, Kaunas! Photo and repair shop construction: Darius Petrulis.

26/11/2023

One dark November Saturday at the library - Oscar Wild, Young Fisherman and his Little Mermaid, the Broken Heart and the Rejected Soul, the glow of Psilicone theatre, the mesmerizing music by Jan Maksimovic and wonderful spectators!

17/01/2023

This year Psilikone Theater is working on the final show "Hearts and Chimneys" which joines together the industrial trilogy started in 2015 at abandoned Kaunas Artificial Fibre factory in Lithuania and ended at the turn of this year at Schungfabrik - historical miner's shoe factory in Tétange, Luxembourg. Few pics from that special evening at Schungfabric with music by Pol Belardi and wonderful audience - local community closely related to the factory. Photo credits: DS Visuals

10/12/2022

Psilicone theatre and composer Pol Belardi (LUX) presents the audiovisual performance “WORK / AARBECHT” on 17 December at the Schungfabrik in Tétange. This true and special “remix” will close the Kayl municipality’s activities of this cultural year of Esch2022.
“WORK / AARBECHT” is the third part of the industrial trilogy - Psilicone theatre is involved in the research of historical factories since 2015.
This time two shoe factories are in the focus: Kaunas sneaker factory 'Inkaras' and Shungfabrik in Tétange (LUX). After walking a long way towards each other, the Kaunas sneakers and the miners’ boots from the industrial southern region of Luxembourg finally meet in the performance.
The shoe metaphor not only helps to transcend the different socio-economic systems in which the Luxembourg and Lithuanian industries grew and collapsed. The shoes on the left and right feet invite us to step in search of a unified rhythm that helps us, with our feet firmly planted in the ground, to remain human in the face of dramatic economic and social changes. The show’s actors – miniature flexible silicone figures – embody original characters such as Left and Right Miner’s Boots, Batch of Faulty Inkaras Trainers, Lost Gloves, etc.
This performance by Auksė Petrulienė will be accompanied by the Luxembourg composer, jazz musician and multi-instrumentalist Pol Belardi, who chose an exciting semi-electronic aggregate setup consisting of acoustic instruments made of metal (vibraphone, cymbals, bells…) and an array of digital devices and effects.
His live music performance thus incorporates industrial sounds recorded in the region’s remaining factories (Massard foundry and Cimalux), as well as musical motives derived from the shoe factories’ brand names. The semi-improvised set will be in close dialogue with Aukse’s handling of the psilicone puppets.

21/03/2022

International puppetry day reminds about the miracle of (re)animation. Let's animate hope and endurance. Slava Ukraini! Psilicone theatre, Nursing Madonna from performance Love & Loss, silicone figures, h 3,5 cm, h 8 cm, 2020.

04/03/2022

Stay strong Ukraine! Our fists are clenched! The miniature silicone puppets are heroes from Psilicone theatre project "Duel: I Am You" (2011) dedicated to great Lithuanian boxer Šocikas famous for his victories against Russian champion Koroliov during the Soviet occupation. Photos: Darius Petrulis.

02/08/2021

Saturday night silicone puppets will open their lungs and hearts - pepare for a deep breath accopanied by the sax of Jan Maksimovic. "I breath" - the motto of puppet theatre festival Materia Magica 2021.

This time a play that’s been shown for a decade turns away from Oscar Wildes’ tale A Fisherman and His Soul that has inspired it in the first place. This tale tells a story of a young fisherman who falls in love with a mermaid, but who has to give up his soul to be with his beloved, since sea dw...

25/08/2020

FÁBRICA: AMOR E PERDA (Factory: Love&Loss). Psilicone theatre is awakening textile factory located in Guimarães (Portugal) transforming the history of Fabrica do Castanheiro (1885 – 2013) to the industrial mythology. Phantasmagorical love relations between human and factory will be presented on September 5 th for the opening of textile biennial CONTEXTILE 2020, Guimarães together with live music of Pedro Gonçalves Oliveira, Jorge Castro, Simão Neto and Marco Ferreira.