Performances that won't leave the stage
LITTLE SLEEPY STAR
Frane Milčinski Ježek
Sleepy Star is a radio play, a picture book, a film and a puppet show. In Slovenia, this is one of those stories one cannot grow up without.
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BUGSQUERADE
Maja Borin
Maja Borin’s text titled “Bugilly, my family” (Žužina, moja družina) was submitted for the Golden Stick Award for best drama text for children and youth; the text did not receive an award, however, the professional jury recommended it for a production in the theatre. In underwent some changes and now it is here, on the Drama Stage for the Young, with a new title “Bugsquerade”.
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SPECKLES THE BALL
Jan Malik
At the very edge of the town there is a house, small as a cage, clean as a whistle and delicate as a flower. Granny and Granddad live in this house.
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THE TINDER BOX
Hans Christian Andersen – Andrej Rozman Roza
Three clowns bring a tricycle with a large box onto the stage. They stop, and the box itself is transformed into a small stage.
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THE SLEEPING BEAUTY
Po pravljici bratov Grimm – Katarína Aulitisová
You must have heard the famous story about the sleeping princess, who pricked her finger on a spinning wheel and fell asleep for a hundred years. But we are sure that you don’t know the role of the frog, motionlessly adorning the castle garden fountain, in all of this.
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TICK TOCK
Sonja Kononenko
This show talks about child’s play and the time lost during playing, about creativity of the moment and experiencing the magic of the moment when we are lost into the time of playfulness and creativity.
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RUSTLY
Svetlana Makarovič
Rustly is a friendly boy who loves animals. One day, while he is writing his homework in the garden gazebo, Darnmousie calls him in his dreams to follow her into the woods.
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THE BREMEN MUSICIANS
Matija Solce
This well known folk tale of the musicians of Bremen gave Matija Solce, an established puppet artist, foundation for a vivacious and friendly performance, which combines puppets and music. As they do in the fairy-tale, the four animals make a journey, and they surprise the town folk with their music.
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DARNMOUSIE
Svetlana Makarovič
One day a little grey mouse came face to face with a cat, which was so surprised that it exclaimed 'darnthemouse's tail' And so Darnmousie got her name ...
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ROMEO & JULIET
Po motivih Williama Shakespeara
This performance of William Shakespeare's masterpiece still deals with the plot of star crossed lovers of Romeo and Juliet, you will still witness the legendary balcony scene, and there will still be dead characters galore, those who deserve death and those who deserve it a little less.
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REAL BAD
Dragica Potočnjak
It's really bad if you are eleven years old, it is even worse if you are a girl and your parents are divorced, and you want to live with your mother, but you have to live with your father and his new wife and their annoying kid, even though he is your brother, that is half-brother ...
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FORBIDDEN LOVES
Po motivih antičnih mitov (Narcis in Eho, Dedal in Ikar, Pasifaa, Pigmalion)
Throughout the show one can easily recognise the tragic destinies of famous protagonists of Greek mythology: Dedalus, the inventor whose son, Icarus, flies too close to the sun; Pygmalion, the sculptor, who is in love with his creation; Queen Parsiphea, who makes love with the divine bull, conceives and gives birth to Minotaur; and Narcissus who is in love with his own reflection.
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THE MERMAN
Eka Vogelnik
The performance, Merman, is based on a Slovene folk tale. You probably remember the story of a boy who falls in a river pool and meets the merman there.
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PINK
Janja Vidmar
Janja Vidmar's novel was noticed immediately after being published, and it received the Večernica award. It talks about Janjica, growing up in a family in a time that has passed, but which our generations have lived in, and younger generations have experienced and followed through our stories. That time is still somehow present in our lives, interpreted through different points of view. It is present in our everyday lives and within our social turbulences.
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THE RAINBOW
Jernej Kuntner
A little boy and a little girl meet and play in a sandbox. They are capable of sharing it and sharing their toys. They can understand each other and be friends. Then rain falls and the boy and the girl don't understand each other any more ...
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LITTLE BEAVER AND THE ECHO
Amy McDonald – Nina Skrbinšek
A lonely little beaver hears the echo of his voice and thinks that a friend is calling to him from the other side of the lake… He constructs a raft and sails across the vast water surface.
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LITTLE CRITTERS
Barbara Bulatović po motivih knjige Male živali, Lile Prap
One day, while Violence the cleaning lady is doing her job, tiny creatures appear and introduce themselves to her. These creatures are her worst enemies; she calls them parasites, vermin, pest, creepy-crawlers. They put on a miniature shadow spectacle, based on Lila Prap's witty picture book, LITTLE CRITTERS.
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LITTLE LUNA AND BIG LUNA
Boris A. Novak
Like any other child, Little Luna yearns to grow up as soon as possible. She falls in love with the Sun, and envies his size and the power of his light. But when she grows up to be the full moon, Big Luna realises that with being grown up come responsibilities. The Sun explains that he has to produce light each and every day of his life, from sunrise to sunset, to create and sustain life in space. Once Big Luna gets a bitter taste of adulthood, she begins longing for careless childhood play, and she begins to grow smaller once more.
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LOVE DOLLS
Duda Paiva
A shocking, radical, engaged puppet show speaks about alienation as a problem of modern individual. The absence of communication is reflected in one's intimacy. The heroes in our show are not capable of being in a relationship, being near a warm, but demanding human being, so they decide to love dolls.
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THE JUNGLE BOOK
Rudyard Kipling
Even as a puppet show, Kipling's Jungle Book promises an interesting trip into the jungle of India. The story of boy Mawgli, his foster mother the wolf, his protector, the wise black panther Baghira, his friend Baloo the bear and a dangerous enemy Shere Khan is going to be a real puppet spectacle, full of intense, humorous and tender moments.
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WHO MADE VIDEK'S SHIRT
Fran Levstik – Eka Vogelnik
The story was written by Fran Levstik, and we know it just as well as his story about Martin Krpan.
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THE STONES
Tom Lycos, Stefo Nantsou
The Stones is a dramatisation of a real story of two boys, who threw stones from the bridge over a motorway, and as a result killed a driver. It is written as a play for two actors, who act in the roles of the two boys, and the two detectives respectively.
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THE LOST TONE
Zalka Grabnar Kogoj / Peter Kus
Somewhere or everywhere there is a city, where time seems at the beginning or at the end. The citizens wish for peace and harmony, but they don’t know what that is. In constant conflicts and noise created by life, they’ve lost what connects them – the basic Tone.
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MISTER PEPI AND ARTHUR THE WORM
Barbo Lindgren
A story of solitude and friendship. Mister Pepi lives in his neat little house, alone with his habits. Then one day an unexpected visitor enters his world: Arthur the Worm.
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DOCTOR FAUSTUS
Milan Klemenčič, po motivih iz 18. stoletja
Faustus was born in 1938(!) in Milan Klemenčič’s theatre, and Mr Klemenčič’s family and some friends gave him life in the theatre.
In 1982 Jelena Sitar and Igor Cvetko revived the performance at the Ljubljana Puppet Theatre for the very first time, adapting it a little bit in the process.
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BLACK CAT GOES COURTING
Josip Ribičič
Every night Black Cat woos White Kitty, on a guitar he strums his ditty. In the songs the cat in love promises White Kitty many things, but his romantic serenades all have a bitter-sweet ending – until White Kitty starts taking care of Black Cat, and starts listening to his song despite the fact that “meow, the Cat can’t bow”…
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A BOXER'S HEART
Lutz Hübner
Is communication between an old, once legendary boxer, now sitting idly in his room in a retirement home, and a young boy, full of life, impatient, arrogant, a typical representative of today's youth living on junk food and computer games, possible?
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BARLEY AND THE BOAT
Anja Štefan
Barley lives near the lake. He plays on its shores every day. He floats his tiny boats on the lake and wishes to have a real boat.
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THE THIEF FROM BAGHDAD
Jan Zakonjšek, po motivih pravljic iz Tisoč in ene noči
The performance takes us to a distant past, to the Middle East, into the midst of sultans, caliphs and evil viziers. Prince Ahmed and his assistant, Abu the thief, meet in jail. When they get out of jail, they travel on land, sea and through air, embarking on incredible adventures.
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