"Our festival presents contemporary theatre aims to bring a variety of cultural institutions, cultural interaction values. We do not stick to the founding generation and genre dictates. "Šermukšnis“ presents the theatres of different countries and regions, looking unique and different to anything else. As far as possible, we try to introduce to Klaipeda‘ citizens and visitors the theatres that trying to go beyond the limits of the gray everyday, to understand death, resurrection and the secrets of joy. We would want to show the most significant artists of Lithuanian theatre to our foreign guests.

Theatre festival "Šermukšnis" appeared to overcome the urban theatrical provincialism. The main provision of the festival has not changed today. Resistance to isolation of the experiments, cultural interaction, sensitivity to change – these are all objectives of the festival".