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Performances for children

Mr Gum and the Dancing Bear
9+
60 minutes
Andy Stanton

Mr Gum and the Dancing Bear

Puppetry performance
Director: Luka Marcen

Do you like bears? Hot air balloons? And sailing boats with crazy captains and grumpy old geezers? And travelling around the world and back again? And adventures that require a lot of courage and even more imagination? Welcome to the weirdest little town in the world with the weirdest inhabitants, to whom something unexpected...
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Tin House
6+
40 minutes
Jana Nunčič

Tin House

Puppetry performance
Director: Jana Nunčič

The performance is anchored in Magnus Mills' story Three to See the King, serving as a starting point from where the creative team takes us on a journey through the emotional landscape of the explorer Gregor's heart.
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What, How, Why?
3+
60 minutes
Jure Karas

What, How, Why?

Puppetry performance
Director: Jaka Ivanc

The journey of two best friends - self-proclaimed dinosaurs and the most colourful and lovable creatures the world has ever seen - who love to sing songs and think about life more than anything else. On their journey, they search for answers to the essential questions of humanity beyond the age of three: What is that? What is...
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How to Survive a Zombie Apocalypse
12+
60 minutes
Ben Muir

How to Survive a Zombie Apocalypse

A scary comedy
Director: Ajda Valcl

How to Survive a Zombie Apocalypse, a blend of comedy and horror, is a drama template themed around a subject that is particularly dramatic and disturbing for teenagers (and adults): zombies! In his one-act play, award-winning playwright and screenwriter Ben Muir uses education as a narrative framework to prepare teens for the...
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Wisdom Stone (working title)
12+
60 minutes
Miklavž Komelj, Leja Jurišić

Wisdom Stone (working title)

Puppetry show
Director: Leja Jurišić

The performance explores how to bring a stone to life on stage. It is conceived through the puppeteer's relationship with the stone's radical immutability and mystery—its incomprehensible, unmoving persistence. Through this lens, the inner struggles of each of the five characters gradually unfold.  
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The Little Witch
3+
45 minutes
Otfried Preußler

The Little Witch

Adaptation of Jože Pengov's 1967 marionette show

Direction: Brane Vižintin

The Little Witch is only 127 years old... which is very young for her profession. She lives alone in her witch house in the middle of the woods, with Abraxas the raven as her companion. Every year on Bonfire Night, the older witches gather on Mount Klek and dance the night away. The Little Witch is too young to attend the dance,...
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