LTStraipsnyje analizuojamos dailininko, daikto ir gyvūno funkcijos teatre. Aiškinamasi, kaip šiuolaikiniame Lietuvos teatre jie pakeičia, pavaduoja tai, kas valdo verbalinę kalbą, kas pajėgus dalintis atlikėjo vaidmenį spektaklyje, komunikaciją, kurti veiksmą, visa tai, kas susiję su sąvoka atlikti. Nagrinėjama, kaip daiktas kuria atmosferinę erdvę, pabrėžia scenos dinamiką, daro poveikį žiūrovui nekalbinėmis priemonėmis ir taip inicijuoja socialinį veiksmą teatre, taip pat siūlo naujas perspektyvas ir įteisina bei išplečia naujas atlikimo priemones.
ENThe performative theatrical feature, which actualises an event taking place here and now, is highly relevant in contemporary theatre. In this case, a problem concerning the relation between text and image, view and observer appears. An object takes on the features of present existence in theatre, when they actively afflict the viewer's senses. The smell of flax, used in the scenography by the artist Dalia Matairienė in the play "Lord", affected the audience sensually: it soaked into their clothes and remained even after the end of the play. It became an all-encompassing experience of present existence, emphasising the relationship between the community. The role of an object in unclosing present existence is changing through touch during performance. The objects in the artist's Adomas Jacovskis' creations become the non-verbal evidence of love, confessions of security, expressions of tenderness and open very strong intimate personal experiences to viewers. Thus an object on a stage stopped being simply a mere object. The function of an object varies due to the action that involves performer-animals, whose natural behaviour fulfils the expectations of contemporary theatre. A cricket, suddenly appearing on the mask in the scenography by the artist Aldona Jankauskienė, made the observer follow the action. Things and the animal turned into the text, constructed during the show. Thus, this performance created a space for a social relationship without a traditional artist-actor.An object takes on the properties of a living being when a performance is created by the bodily presence of performers and the audience together. In 2013, students of Scenography from the Vilnius Academy of Arts created costumes-objects for a performance and, after putting them on, the artists turned into natural bodies - snails, birds, trees lined on both sides of a path to a stream. Passers-by, who had appeared in the same space, also became performers, creating a dialogue with the objects. With this performance the artists openly called to notice new artists, to facilitate the conflict between a man and nature. It becomes clear that only theatres integrity forces us to maintain the dynamic creative process of theatre and to gain the qualities of sociality, necessary for modern theatre, that also open up new prospects for theatre.