Publications

19 01 2023
What is the Nature of an Immaculate World?
About the World is a children's performance that breathes fresh air and looks into the distance, into the vast and expansive world that opens before us with all its sonic and visual attributes. The performance evokes the feeling of an open space into which we enter with open arms, ready to...
06 01 2023
Opening of the main hall of the Vilnius Theatre “Lėlė”. On Ljubljana Puppet Theatre's performance “Session Bulgakov”
On October 27, the Vilnius Theatre “Lėlė” celebrated its sixty-fourth anniversary. To celebrate this solemn anniversary, the main hall was opened after its reconstruction and the performance for adults “Session Bulgakov” (directed by Matija Solce) of the Ljubljana Puppet Theatre was performed there.
26 11 2022
Teatro Gioco Vita: Sonia and Alfredo
Italian director and puppeteer Fabrizio Montecchi proves that a shadow can be a comprehensive semantic resource. He is one of the most important creators in the field of shadow theatre in Italy and the wider European theatre scene. In our country, he is best remembered for his award-winning...
16 11 2022
Ljubljana Puppet Theatre: Darkroom
Matija Solce, a renowned artist in Slovenia and around the world, participates in the 16th international biennial festival of contemporary puppetry Lutke with three puppet cabarets: The Hatchet, Exit and Darkroom (director, adaptation and music by Matija Solce). Darkroom is a music and puppet...
06 11 2022
The rise of new ways of viewing
Tonight marks the end of the 16th international biennial festival of contemporary puppetry Lutke. This year, the festival, which brings to the capital the world's top contemporary puppetry performances, has questioned the position of the human being's place in the world, his relationship to...
31 10 2022
La Fille du Laitier: Macbeth Muet
Eggs, paper plates, kitchen gloves, a playing card with the image of the king of hearts and animation of one's own hand are just some of the many elements of Macbeth Muet (written by Marie-Hélène Bélanger Dumas and Jon Lachlan Stewart, directed by Jon Lachlan Stewart), which takes a completely...
25 10 2022
There Was Brightness, There Was a Light and Something Softened
Renaud Herbin (alongside puppeteers like Fabrizio Montecchi, Matija Solce, Tin Grabnar and others) is becoming a permanent fixture in the programme of the biennial international festival of contemporary puppetry Lutke. The director, puppeteer and former director of the French National Theatre...
19 10 2022
If a Consensus Is Reached, This Could Be a Really Good Mountain
The reality that the spectators experience when they enter the Kino Šiška auditorium is a stage on which numerous objects, gadgets and models are arranged on tables, with three large screens in between. In front of one of the screens we can see one of the performers lying on a kind of a mound,...
15 10 2022
Michal Svironi: Carte Blanche
The concept of a human as a blank slate has been with us since antiquity, and Israeli artist Michal Svironi (authorship, design and performance) adds her own mark on the long history of the concept by painting an intimate confessional performance (co-written by Johnny Tal) on carte blanche.
13 10 2022
Ljubljana Puppet Theatre: Darkroom
Matija Solce, a renowned artist in Slovenia and around the world, participates in the 16th international biennial festival of contemporary puppetry Lutke with three puppet cabarets: The Hatchet, Exit and Darkroom (director, adaptation and music by Matija Solce). Darkroom is a music and puppet...
11 10 2022
MAR
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...
11 10 2022
The Big Bang
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...

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