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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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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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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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WITHOUT
Janja Vidmar – Simona Hamer, Eva Nina Lampič
CRIME
If ya wanna fly up high, dough is your fare, set to go and don’t ask where. Any time, any where, just be ready, they don’t care You need your smarts, and business wise, just don’t be bad. They use the bad, they never pay. No crime, no hawkin’ - I’d be gone by now, would not be milking this cash cow. Crime does pay and crime’s da game, so, yo, my fried, why don’t ya play?
(Emir Rešić)
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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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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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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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LET'S PLAY A FAIRYTALE
N. Skrbinšek
While the parents rush about their business, the children can listen to a fairytale told by Rag Doll the Storyteller. The children will then draw scenes from the fairytale and perform it. Perform? Yes. They are going to transform into elves, witches, princesses, princes, the Sun, the Moon, wind, fairies and giants, and perform the scene which attracted them the most.
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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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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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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 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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LAILA
Po motivih animiranih filmov Michaele Pavlátove
Laila is a girl, or a young woman, responding to the world around her, to the small events around and inside her. Those events are easily overlooked, but they weave the fabric of her and our lives. The creators of the show hold dear Pavlatova’s special sensitivity, and they find a challenge in portraying thoughts, emotions and other elements of life that seem impossible to portray by puppets.
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LALANIT
Burleska po motivih pravljice Repa velikanka
The story of a giant turnip is basically the story of the beginning of world. Who pulled out the giant turnip, which is a planet? The mice grabbed the hens, the hens grabbed the geese, the geese grabbed the sheep, the sheep grabbed the cow, the cow grabbed Grandma, grandma grabbed Grandpa, Grandpa grabbed the turnip, and they pulled and pulled and pulled, and finally pulled it out - BIG BANG. Then they all fell down, rolling around, laughing, laughing, laughing...
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LEONCE AND LENA
Po motivih Georga Büchnerja
Life is such a bore! And it is exactly how Prince Leonce and Princess Lena feel about it too, as they try to resist their parents' demands and societal expectations with boredom, tiredness and overindulgence, beneath which they actually hide their great distress. Their escape is a revolt, a stifled cry for help, which nobody is willing to hear. The questions, they are asking themselves on their funny journey – which brings them back, from where they ran away and makes them realise that no road is longer from the one leading to oneself - are the questions about the purpose of existence and being.
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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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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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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 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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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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MOUSIE MOUSE AND WHITEMOUSE
po motivih Ferija Lainščka
While sifting flour, mixing dough and baking bread, a shadow fairytale of love, friendship and otherness comes to life – Mousie Mouse and Whitemouse fairytale. It was inspired by a picture book with the same title, written by Feri Lainšček, a Slovene writer, poet and dramatist.
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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 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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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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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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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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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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SNOW WHITE AND THE SEVEN KNIGHTS
Aleksander Sergejevič Puškin
The puppet adaptation Sneguljčica in sedem vitezov (Snow White and the Seven Knights) is based on the motives of The Tale of the Dead Princess and the Seven Knights (1833) by Alexander Sergeyevich Pushkin. In his tale the poet, who was inspired by the famous fairy story, written by Brothers Grimm, enriched his text with virtuoso rhymes, Russian folklore and new fairy tale heroes.
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THE SNOW QUEEN
Hans Christian Andersen – Andrej Jaklič
The fairytale by Hans Christiana Andersen, who wanted to be an actor, a novelist and a dramatist, but became one of the most popular authors of fairytales, is a story about two friends, the search for truth, salvation, love and growing up.
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KOSOVIRS AGAIN!
Svetlana Makarovič
»Kosovirs again! is a puppet spectacle. The first surprise awaits the audience at the very beginning, when the kosovir marionettes appear at the back of the theatre on their spoons, and then descend to the stage on their spoons, meeting different animals and creatures which surprise us with their unique appearance. /.../ Kosovirs again! surprises the audience moment and moment again.”
(RA Slovenia, 1st October 2000)
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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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TOWER
Ivo Svetina
German poet Friedrich Hölderlin (1770–1843) sang in the »poor times « and asked himself, »why poets«. His time was also the time of the downfall of the French revolution and the beginning of human right struggles. Despite his total commitment to poetry, Hölderlin was a man of body and heart. His love to Susette Gontard, a banker’s wife, gave birth to verses dedicated to Dotima, and the death of his chosen one gave birth to insanity, which led to a year in a mental asylum and forty years in Tübingen, with Ernst Zimmer, a carpenter, in a house with a tower near Neckar River.
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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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PAWCAT
Svetlana Makarovič
Irena and Karel set off on a picnic, but Karel forgot to tell a very hungry Irena that before they go he has to keep a promise he made to the children, and tell them a fairytale about a very, very, very hungry white kitty, Pawcat, who used her last cat penny to buy a green ribbon instead of buying food. A cooler becomes a skunk’s den, a bucket a fox’s hole, and at the very end, a dachshund jumps out of a rucksack, and saves Pawcat from the clutches of the voracious fox.
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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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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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RASPBERRY FAIRY
Svetlana Makarovič
“Raspberry Fairy, as she is in the performance, where all woodland creatures fight for a primate and ownership of a ripe fruit, is almost ethereal, spiritually flawless creature, who comes to people’s aid when they get too deep in trouble. The little fairy girl is a cute, tiny creature, who idles around in the comfort of colourful meadow flowers, but her anger, incompetence, peevishness, narcissism, petulance, and inappropriately hateful attitude towards water, have quite a few followers among those, who no longer need diapers and can find their own way to school. The benevolent girl is not to be judged too severely. After all, only her skin and clothes are dirty, the others have dirty souls.”
(RA Slovenia, 25th November 2006)
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ALL DIFFERENT, ALL STRANGE
Maja Kunšič
The performance All Different, All Strange is a somewhat different theatrical, puppet and musical story – with a hint of burlesque – about friendship for the youngest.
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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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ANIMAL FARM
George Orwell – Andrej Rozman Roza
»The actual details of the story did not come to me for some time until one day (I was then living in a small village) I saw a little boy, perhaps ten years old, driving a huge cart-horse along a narrow path, whipping it whenever it tried to turn. It struck me that if only such animals became aware of their strength we should have no power over them, and that men exploit animals in much the same way as the rich exploit the proletariat.«
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OD
Tamara Matevc
This is a story of drugs. This is a story of addictions. This is a story of life.
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LITTLE DRAGON
Sonja Kononenko
A dragon is a big and mighty beast, but only when it grows up. First it is small, just like every other baby in the world, and it causes Sonja the same problems as other babies cause their mothers.
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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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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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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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