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Kulturnica LGL

Length 45 min

Martin Mlakar

29c Kidrič Street 15+

Directors: Martin Mlakar, Tajda Lipicer

Object theatre

The only thing still alive in the apartment on the second floor on 29c Kidrič Street are memories. Memories that have no appeal to official history but rather mark another, personal history. Memories of a childhood friend. Memories embittered by guilt. Memories imprinted in the space and the objects in it. The apartment thus becomes a contemplative space, where objects cease to be mere possessions but become artefacts, silent but eloquent testimonies of a life.

Tunnel LGL

Length 50 min

Karolína Kotrbová, Gašper Lovrec, Filip Mramor, Jernej Potočan, Domen Novak

410 Kilometres 15+

Direction: Filip Mramor

Devised theatre

If history had revolved in a different direction by only a degree, the Czech engineer Karel Žlábek would have gone down in it as one of the greatest visionaries of his time. Not much is known about him, but he left behind him indelible dreams about a better future.

Length 75 min

Based on Henrik Ibsen

A Doll's House 15+

Directors: Yngvild Aspeli, Paola Rizza

Festival première in co-production with Plexus Polaire (France, Norway)

Renowned Norwegian director Yngvild Aspeli, whose masterpiece Moby Dick mesmerised audiences at Cankarjev dom in November 2021, returns to the Puppet Festival and to Cankarjev dom with a performance based on A Doll’s House by Henrik Ibsen. The Slovenian première of the performance will feature Maja Kunšič, the leading actress of the Ljubljana Puppet Theatre ensemble, in the role of Nora.

Kulturnica LGL

Length 75 min

Matija Solce

Darkroom 15+

Director, adaptation and author of music: Matija Solce

Object Theatre

Darkroom is an object-music cabaret based on Hans Christian Andersen's The Steadfast Tin Soldier, which is considered one of his most famous stories, but also the first one not based on a literary source or a folk tale. It thus marks the beginning of the author's original creative period. It was written almost 200 years ago and has been adapted numerous times, including for ballet performances and films.

Šentjakobski oder LGL

Length 70 min

Nataša Živković

Everything is alright 15+

Coproduction: Lutkovno gledališče Ljubljana in Mesto žensk

Concept and assistance: Tea Hvala, Teja Reba

Gledališki laboratorij

In 2021, the year of lockdowns, the high school students selected at the audition studied school as an institution. They were interested in the established school order and its effect on their growing up.

Tunnel LGL

Length 50 min

Matija Solce and Daniil Harms

Harms fault! 15+

Nonsense theatrical puppet concert on prepared accordion

“An old woman fell out of the window because she was too curious. She fell and broke into pieces.”

Tunnel LGL

Length 45 min

William Shakespeare

Macbeth 15+

Director and visual designer: Matteo Spiazzi

A rusty performance

Following Hamlet (2006), Romeo & Juliet (2011), The Merchant of Venice (2015) and The Tempest (2016), this production is likewise a rendition of one of William Shakespeare’s most important texts in world drama that we are adding to our repertoire as a puppet production. Macbeth is aimed at audiences aged 15 and over.

Make Me a Coffin For Him, foto Jaka Varmuž

Kulturnica LGL

Length 30 min

Make Me a Coffin For Him 15+

Lutkovno gledališče Ljubljana and Umetniško društvo Konj

Director: Jan Zakonjšek

Tragic Cheerful Puppet Performance

The play Make Me a Coffin for Him from 1993 represents an anthology of the nineties, since it features, as Barbara Orel wrote, "primal iconography, infernal content and demonic energy; it is, in a word—diabolical."

Kulturnica LGL

Length 75 min

Klemen Kovačič, Nik Žnidaršič

Messy Room 15+

In every house, there is a place without a special purpose. It is where we put away what we no longer need, but are not yet ready to admit that to ourselves. It is a space (be it a room, a drawer or just a box) where we leave memories that we don't trust to stay in our minds. They seem too fragile. Eternally elusive, but so important. Who are we without them? And who are we with them?

Length 90 min

Herman Melville

Moby Dick 15+

Plexus Polaire (Francija)

Directed by: Yngvild Aspeli

Musical-puppetry spectacle

Moby Dick is a puppet-musical spectacle for young audiences by internationally acclaimed Norwegian director Yngvild Aspeli, inspired by the timeless 1851 classic by American writer Herman Melville. The thrilling story of the hunt for the great white whale is one of the greatest works of world literature. It is the story of a sailor waging war against a creature as large, dangerous and unknown as the sea itself. Who will win? Man or nature?

Stage Under the Stars

Length 50 min

Franz Pocci, Célia Houdart

Open the Owl 15+

Ljubljana Puppet Theatre, TJP – Centre Dramatique National d’Alsace, Strasbourg (France)

Director: Renaud Herbin

Intermedia interpretation of The Castle of Owls (1936)

The performance Open the Owl brings back to stage the miniature characters from the performance Sovji grad (The Owl Castle), created by Slovenian puppeteer Milan Klemenčič back in 1936. (french subtitles)

Stage Under the Stars

Length 60 min

JAŠA

REKVIEM two years later 15+

Producent: We.Are inštitut

Curator: Laura Rositani

An art project

JAŠA (Ljubljana, 1978) presents "REKVIEM two years later” an immersive, multi-sensory experience that blends visual arts, performance, poetry, and music. This ambitious project, previously shown at the Casa Tartini Museum in Piran, is a tribute to JAŠA's recently deceased father, the esteemed psychiatrist Gorazd V. Mrevlje.

Tunnel LGL

Length 60 min

Matija Solce

Session Bulgakov 15+

Puppet-object brain-storming

Session Bulgakov is a reconstruction of the novel, set up on the dynamics of contrasts between burlesque and abstract images of object theatre, which remained on the ruins of the confusion, left behind by Satan and his accomplices. In its fragmentation and through the rhytmization of words, gestures and sounds it combines the associations on today’s obsessed world and the tragic side of everyman with his problems, fears and desires. A trio of actors, animators and musicians puts the spectators into the role of witnesses and eyewitnesses to specific events, leading them through some originally interpreted pictures of the novel at a dynamic pace.

Stage Under the Stars

Length 60 min

Tin Grabnar, Tjaša Bertoncelj

Still Life 15+

Directed by: Tin Grabnar

Nine Attempts to Preserve Life

With its form and content, Tin Grabnar’s performance Still Life addresses the evasive question of the phenomenon of life. What is the inner force that we call life? What is life like? How to understand the phenomenon and way of existence and its opposite—death? And finally, what does it mean to take this life away? By exploring these questions, a sensible performance language takes shape—one that addresses fundamental questions of the existence of animals and at the same time strives to engender respect in the audience for all that we refer to as being alive.

Tunnel LGL

Length 45 min

Ágota Kristóf

The Notebook 15+

Director: Mia Skrbinac

Puppet performance

The story of twins who, in their struggle for physical and emotional survival, strengthen their bodies and minds as they become increasingly indifferent and apathetic, paints a poetic picture of love, war, identity and (collective) trauma.

Vadbenica LGL

Length 60 min

The Power 15+

Authors, directors, actors: Jiří Zeman and Martina Maurič Lazar

A Puppet Miniature

In this performance the creators explore the field of an intimate puppet-object theatre. They found the materials that allow a double glimpse into the theme of power, the objects that enlarge or reduce, draw nearer or distance, hide or reveal the seen.

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Partizanska soba LGL

Length 40 min

Tin Grabnar

Transport: Cargo 15+

Maribor Puppet Theatre (Slovenia)

Dramaturgy: Ajda Rooss

Puppetry performance

Transport: Cargo shows the urgent problem of increasing road freight transport. The performance subtly raises moral and ethical questions about the value and responsibility of human beings in the context of insatiable hyper-consumerism.

Stage Under the Stars

Length 40 min

Tin Grabnar and Ajda Rooss

Transport: Departure 15+

Director and concept author: Tin Grabnar

Hyper-realistic miniature

The performance Transport: Departure is part of the international Creative Europe Transport project, initiated by Slovenian director Tin Grabnar. In the 2024/2025 season, it connects six theatres from Slovenia, Estonia, Lithuania, the Czech Republic, and Poland.

Grand Stage LGL

Length 55 min

Vanishing World 15+

The biosphere, the thin layer of life we call home, has never been so intensely and drastically threatened. Deforestation rates have soared as we exploit the land to feed more and more people. Global emissions are disrupting the climate system, new pathogens threaten crops and our health, illegal trade has eradicated entire plant populations, and non-native species are overtaking endemic flora. Biodiversity is being lost, locally and globally.