Publications

M.A.R. is an interactive performance of object theatre that narrates the story of a family through eight decades and five generations. Andrea Diaz Reboredo performs a gentle choreography accompanied with spoken words that alter, rethink and modify the space around her. The minimalist set is made...

The Big Bang is a puppet cinema performance developed as an international co-production between Itim Ensemble, Israel, and Klaipeda Theater, Lithuania. In this production, a trio of skilled puppeteers manipulate and voice the characters at the same time, with the performance simultaneously filmed...

Visual theatre in the Baltics

The first program of the festival Baltic Visual Theatre Showcase was introduced in Tallinn in May of this year. The new project, which will be organized every second year in a different Baltic country, aims at drawing attention to the promotion and dissemination of visual theatre field and the...

What is visual theatre?

One could ask, does non-visual theatre exist? I feel that it is useful to speak about a dominant means of expression. That is, if a visual side is dominating in a performance, then there is reason to speak about visual theatre.

Between Light and Darkness you Find a Shadow

The most obvious contrast to darkness is light, which makes the choice of the animation technique of light projection and shadow theatre, based on the play of these contrasts, all the more insightful in a performance about the fear of darkness.

Puppetry at AUK: A Place of Constant Search and Development of Puppetry Expression

The Study of Puppetry at the Academy of Arts and Culture in Osijek managed to create a solid foundation in the first 16 years and build a recognizable expression which is characterized by a high level of animation in a classical puppetry environment, on the one hand, and an original approach to...

Puppetry's challenges in the new visual theatre paradigm. Interview with Marek Waszkiel

The art of puppetry is strongly in the winds of change. It is difficult to predict whether this is the irreversible process where one important period, when puppet theatre was established as an independent type of theatre, is being replaced by a new era of visual theatre.

The Lithuanian Performing Arts in Lockdown: Unique Solutions and a Good Occasion for Reflection: Puppet theatre

The national UNIMA (International Puppetry Association) Centre in Lithuania has over 60 individual members, and also professional theatres, such as the Vilnius Lėlė Theatre, Klaipėda's Puppet Theatre, the Kaunas State Puppet Theatre, Panevėžys' Puppet Wagon Theatre, the Alytus Puppet Theatre...

The Six-Armed Life of a Rabbit

The Ljubljana Puppet Theatre’s performance Still Life shares nine ways of preserving life. At the same time this performance in a way becomes a memorial for the humble art of taxidermy. A time has come where circuses do not feature tricks by trained animals in their shows anymore.

Theatre reviews: Manipulate Festival | School of Rock

In spite of various Covid-related cancellations, this year’s Manipulate Festival has still been able to offer a rich and varied programme, writes Joyce McMillan.

Tossed on the seas of Visual Theatre: challenges to Puppetry’s survival as an independent discipline. Part II

Based on the above, it appears that everyone has a fairly clear idea of the qualities that make up a contemporary puppeteer. However, it is not at all certain whether these characteristics can be formulated as an unambiguous definition for everyone.

Tossed on the seas of Visual Theatre: challenges to Puppetry’s survival as an independent discipline. Part I

At a seminar held at the International Puppet Theatre Festival in Finland a few years ago, attended by puppeteers, directors and festival organizers from various European countries, it suddenly emerged during conversation that puppetry was no longer taught at the university level in the Nordic or...

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