Actor House

On February 11, 1956 the government of LSST (Lithuanian Soviet Socialist Republic) decided to reopen the State Drama Theatre of Kapsukas.

People of Marijampolė (or Kapsukiečiai at that time) were truly excited about young actors who would be residing and working in their hometown. The theatre was under a reconstruction, new house for the actors was in a building process (had started in 1955). The house was located in 5A I. Černiachovskio St. (currently, Vytauto Str. 15). First residents appeared in the summer of 1956.

Most famous tenants: theatre director Stasys Čaikauskas, painter Romualdas Lukšas, actors Bronius Gražys, Leonas Ciunis, Juozas Jaruševičius, Nijolė Narijauskaitė, Arnas Rosenas, Gražina Urbonaitė, Regimantas Adomaitis, Elvyra Žebertavičiūtė and others.
Not without reason this house is often referred to as “The House of Actors“. A memorial plaque to commemorate famous stars of Lithuanian theatre was attached on July 8, 2016.

In 1956 the first troupe of Kapsukas Theatre was formed of students of the Department of Theatre (1st and 2nd generations) of State Conservatory: Algimantas Bružas, Leonas Ciunis, Bronius Gražys, Juozas Jaruševičius, Algirdas Kubilius, Vanda Marčinskaitė, Algis Mažuolis, Nijolė Narijauskaitė, Arnas Rosenas, Gražina Urbonaitė, Elvyra Žebertavičiūtė, Rolandas Butkevičius, Dalia Cinauskaitė, Karolis Dapkus, Birutė Didžgalvytė, Elena Gaigalaitė, Algirdas Grašys, Gediminas Kačergis, Rimgaudas Karvelis, Vytautas Paukštė, Martynas Vainilaitis, Genovaitė Vaitiekaitytė, Algirdas Venskūnas, Antanas Žekas and  Raimundas Čaikauskas. In 1959  Algis Bubnelis, Jūratė Jankauskaitė, Aldona Jazukevičiūtė, Juozas Rygertas had joined the troupe. In 1961 Lionginas Aleksandravičius, Regimantas Adomaitis and Saulius Sipaitis, and few older generation‘s actors  – Justina Labanauskaitė, Antanas Valaika, Janina Dulskytė, Kazys Kepalas, Valerija Gruodytė, Stasys Ratkevičius, Aleksandra Tamoliūnaitė, Vaclovas Ivanauskas, Gediminas Pauliukaitis, Aleksandras Dilius. However, the theatre was closed in 1962; many talented actors transferred to other Lithuanian theatres…