This year puppet animation film programme for children and adults is diverse in both discussed topics and its unique puppet form. Not one, but several short films from this programme have won international awards – during the festival we will even show a couple of Oscar nominated films. We will try to talk to children...
This year puppet animation film programme for children and adults is diverse in both discussed topics and its unique puppet form. Not one, but several short films from this programme have won international awards – during the festival we will even show a couple of Oscar nominated films. We will try to talk to children...
This year puppet animation film programme for children and adults is diverse in both discussed topics and its unique puppet form. Not one, but several short films from this programme have won international awards – during the festival we will even show a couple of Oscar nominated films. We will try to talk to children...
These days it’s becoming more and more popular to devote attention to one’s inner world, to look at oneself. Since I live in times of fast consumption, these topics resonate with me. I raise questions like how can one maintain balance between his inner and outer self, how not to succumb to fast living and...
This year puppet animation film programme for children and adults is diverse in both discussed topics and its unique puppet form. Not one, but several short films from this programme have won international awards – during the festival we will even show a couple of Oscar nominated films. We will try to talk to children...
International Puppet Theatre Festival Materia Magica invites everyone to an explosive festival opening concert by Planeta Polar! Planeta Polar performs in Spanish, but those guys look and sound like three fairies right from the Galaxy of dreams. Such colourful cosmic cocktail with a dash of electronic music will definitely make you tipsy and you won’t...
Theatrical installation Soap Opera: Bubble’s Love is a journey through the ages of the Earth, through colonies of bacteria producing oxygen for future life; a journey through different layers of the Earth – from underground to the tops of trees following the life of ants; forms transforming into different ones; forests and oceans full of...
Death is always somewhere nearby, just in case. Although it not death, but life, that bring misfortunes... It does, of course, bring lots of nice things as well – friendship, chats and games, and warm friendly atmosphere that surrounds us. It can seem strange but by getting to know death, we get to know life...
Death is always somewhere nearby, just in case. Although it not death, but life, that bring misfortunes... It does, of course, bring lots of nice things as well – friendship, chats and games, and warm friendly atmosphere that surrounds us. It can seem strange but by getting to know death, we get to know life...
One day Virginia wakes up feeling wolfish. She becomes rude and even aggressive towards people around and frightens everyone. Her sister Vanessa does her best to cheer her up, but Virginia still does not like anything. Finally, she stops talking. After unsuccessful Vanessa’s attempts, they lie in bed in silence and look at the floating...
This time a play that’s been shown for a decade turns away from Oscar Wildes’ tale A Fisherman and His Soul that has inspired it in the first place. This tale tells a story of a young fisherman who falls in love with a mermaid, but who has to give up his soul to be...
To be as close to nature as to your own mum. To experience the rhythms of nature – see the insect crumbling the grass, hear the sea waves rustling, feel your foot soaking in the soft moss and experience the unconditional love of the Mother Nature when you lay down in grass and treetops are...
Using various materials, children, along with the adults they’ve come with and artists from the Theatre of Senses, will build their own sensory toy – a little caterpillar. The children will invent their own design of a caterpillar while touching, listening and playing with special materials. They will also fill it with various heavy, stretchy,...
To be as close to nature as to your own mum. To experience the rhythms of nature – see the insect crumbling the grass, hear the sea waves rustling, feel your foot soaking in the soft moss and experience the unconditional love of the Mother Nature when you lay down in grass and treetops are...
The performance Somewhere Else tells us about a little girl who finds herself caught in the middle of the war. It is through her eyes that we observe her changing city, filled with horrors, violence and fear. And hope, too. The performance includes a variety of modern technological approaches to puppet theatre. The classical puppet...
During this educational programme the children will learn to watch, to see, to discover, to name and to visualize their own Diving beetle from Ieva Babilaitė’s book Diving beetle, air and water. How? The answer is simple! By using various colouring techniques and multi-textured pieces of paper the participants will create a finger puppet –...
You most definitely can’t surprise anyone with holes in cheese or in an old sock. But what does one do with tiny holes in a book? Befriend them and make them characters of some great story! For this friendship to occur, workshop participants will learn to make a book that looks like a harmonica. Monika...
The performance Somewhere Else tells us about a little girl who finds herself caught in the middle of the war. It is through her eyes that we observe her changing city, filled with horrors, violence and fear. And hope, too. The performance includes a variety of modern technological approaches to puppet theatre. The classical puppet...
Participants of this educational programme will find out some intriguing facts about shadow theatre and will have a chance to watch and learn how to build a shadow theatre at home, using simple household items. Puppet theatre engineer Audrius Bartninkas will thoroughly demonstrate how to build a special screen, some lighting, silhouette puppets and decorations,...
Did you know that butterflies breathe through the tiny holes in the back of their bodies? Did you know that if plants didn’t breathe, we would also have nothing to breathe? A sensorial performance Little Creatures by Theatre of Senses was created for children with special sensorial needs and their families, as well as for...
Did you know that butterflies breathe through the tiny holes in the back of their bodies? Did you know that if plants didn’t breathe, we would also have nothing to breathe? A sensorial performance Little Creatures by Theatre of Senses was created for children with special sensorial needs and their families, as well as for...
You most definitely can’t surprise anyone with holes in cheese or in an old sock. But what does one do with tiny holes in a book? Befriend them and make them characters of some great story! For this friendship to occur, workshop participants will learn to make a book that looks like a harmonica. Monika...
The production Eliza: uncanny love transfers the ancient myth of Pygmalion, the sculptor who falls in love with his statue, into the 21st century and replaces the statue with a robot with artificial intelligence. Pygmalion becomes an engineer, a programmer, who creates a humanoid robot. He falls in love with his creation during the creation...
People of different religions, beliefs and customs spend their days from dusk till dawn at the foot of the mountain, not being able to decide whose religion is more important and whose God is mightier. One day a tiny flame appears on top of the mountain, starting a rumour that anyone brave enough to touch...
The Big Bang spectators will be carried back to the very beginning of the Universe that followed the Big Bang. After that many planets appeared – one of those planets is the place where this performance takes place. In this world of progressive society, big cities and different cultures we follow the life of a...
Traversées is a visual journey, a series of paintings reminding us of fragments of existence, scraps of memories, invested by a central figure revealing itself, multiple and one. Through darkness, it guides spectators, opens doors for them, transforms and animates each world. The exterior landscape mixes with the decor, the boundaries between reality and fantasy,...
Traversées is a visual journey, a series of paintings reminding us of fragments of existence, scraps of memories, invested by a central figure revealing itself, multiple and one. Through darkness, it guides spectators, opens doors for them, transforms and animates each world. The exterior landscape mixes with the decor, the boundaries between reality and fantasy,...
because everybody loves puppets!?! How to look at puppetry – and how to talk about it! “Sacred or vulgar, preachy or entertaining, fine art or amateurism? World Heritage or contemporary art? Experimental, maybe? Puppetry, an art often neglected, marginalised and swept away into the children’s toybox, still has its place within the vast landscape of...
because everybody loves puppets!?! How to look at puppetry – and how to talk about it! “Sacred or vulgar, preachy or entertaining, fine art or amateurism? World Heritage or contemporary art? Experimental, maybe? Puppetry, an art often neglected, marginalised and swept away into the children’s toybox, still has its place within the vast landscape of...
This year puppet animation programme for children will invite everyone to get to know themselves, as well as their friends. We will talk about friendship of soulmates, look for friends on earth and in the sky, dive underwater to visit seahorses, follow our dreams and try our best to accept everyone for who they are....
All the way from Antarctica, a small, brave, and mischievous penguin joins us on the journeys around the world on his way home, journeys that reveal how similar we are with the magnificent creatures who live just beside us on earth. Two dancers embody different animals and reconnect us to the earth and nature through...
This year puppet animation programme for children will invite everyone to get to know themselves, as well as their friends. We will talk about friendship of soulmates, look for friends on earth and in the sky, dive underwater to visit seahorses, follow our dreams and try our best to accept everyone for who they are....
Our annual puppet animation programme for adults will invite the audience to have a deep and sincere discussion with themselves. We will dive into and wander through our own feelings, raise questions, search for answers. We will witness a woman’s fight with a beast, take a closer look at people, living in a dictatorship, take...
All the way from Antarctica, a small, brave, and mischievous penguin joins us on the journeys around the world on his way home, journeys that reveal how similar we are with the magnificent creatures who live just beside us on earth. Two dancers embody different animals and reconnect us to the earth and nature through...
A theatre project ‘Loco’ is inspired by a short story ‘Diary of a Madman’ by a Russian writer Nikolai Gogol as well as Gogol’s own life and mental illness, and in part by our own experiences. N. Gogol’s ‘Diary of a Madman’ is an absurd tale about the thin line between reason and insanity. Gogol...
Have you ever seen puppets being born? In a Tasty Story performance you will. You will not only witness that moment, but also learn a lot yourself. This is a contemporary interactive performance, teaching to create puppets or even stage a whole performance, using the most simple tools. In a playful way children aged from...
Have you ever seen puppets being born? In a Tasty Story performance you will. You will not only witness that moment, but also learn a lot yourself. This is a contemporary interactive performance, teaching to create puppets or even stage a whole performance, using the most simple tools. In a playful way children aged from...
“I've called my mother last week to announce her she will appear in the new piece 'Dust' we are creating in Leipzig. It's frightening to create involving family stories. Furthermore, when the stories are not just my own family, not just Ari's, but also of Michael and Charlotte. Our grandparents could, theoretically, have met somewhere...
When night falls and the world of people calms down for a while from its turmoil, a writer tries to write a short story. Tired, he falls asleep and in his dreams the objects around him and the characters he has imagined, come to life, and stories and tales begin to weave among them… This...
“I've called my mother last week to announce her she will appear in the new piece 'Dust' we are creating in Leipzig. It's frightening to create involving family stories. Furthermore, when the stories are not just my own family, not just Ari's, but also of Michael and Charlotte. Our grandparents could, theoretically, have met somewhere...
‘Memories are often fragments, brief moments or encounters, which together form the scrapbook of our life. Memory is sacred ground. But it’s haunted too.’ (Edith Eger, “The Choice”). During the Second World War, Edith Eger, her mother, father, sister and other Jewish families were sent to the Auschwitz concentration camp. A ballet dancer and gymnast,...
“Para- |in Greek para- means "beside, near, from'’] – a prefix indicating that the compound word is near something, deviates from something”. Paraobjects is a live sound performance with self-made instruments, combining unconventional methods and principles of sound generating. It’s an authors manifestation of imaginations and interpretations, through individual associative movements creating a story between...
Every child is a little world, worth to value regardless of its racial, cultural and social origin. All these little worlds compose the world. It is important to cherish every little world, so later they cherish and value the world. The idea of the diversity of the world is introduced to baby audience by means...
Every child is a little world, worth to value regardless of its racial, cultural and social origin. All these little worlds compose the world. It is important to cherish every little world, so later they cherish and value the world. The idea of the diversity of the world is introduced to baby audience by means...
‘Paper Theater’ is a contemporary circus show that, through the manipulation of objects, clowning, physical theatre and a collection of extraordinary puppets, seeks to claim the power of the imagination. ‘Paper theatre’ is also a person in his/her loneliness, it is a party without courtship, a monodialogue where the imagination lightens the weight of loneliness...
A dreamy and elegant flight in the sky, up and down, tearing the sand of the sky, but falling as light as a feather, graceful as the twisting of a fish’s tail in the depths of the ocean. The unique, ephemeral, moment-to-moment movement of large puppets and objects made of polyethylene films will remind some...
Michal Svironi combines art and theatre to create a unique stage language she calls ‘Paint-theatre’. In a colourful collage of separation, using broad strokes of colour and paint, she evokes characters who have left their impression on her. They come to life in a macabre parade, filling up the stage. Each figure is a creation...
‘Darkroom’ is an object-music cabaret based on ‘The Steadfast Tin Soldier’ by Hans Christian Andersen's, which is considered one of his most famous stories, but also the first one not based on a literary source or a folk tale. In his imagination, Andersen animates flowers, cups and statuettes by attributing a primordial trait to them....
‘Tunnel’ is an unusual production that seeks comfort in the dark and treats light like a delicious dessert. At first it seems that the light can be controlled, while the darkness—unknown, dangerous —cannot. However, in the performance, the situation is soon reversed – with a pinch of courage and a pinch of cooperation, we can...
A light glimmers in the house. The day begins. The hand draws a straight path on the table, which curves and becomes steep, unfolding in tangled strokes across the entire city. Coming to a halt, the stroke reaches the end of its journey. The environment is so damp that fish could jump in through the...
A light glimmers in the house. The day begins. The hand draws a straight path on the table, which curves and becomes steep, unfolding in tangled strokes across the entire city. Coming to a halt, the stroke reaches the end of its journey. The environment is so damp that fish could jump in through the...
I am the promise of an adventure, an exciting journey into the unknown. You don't know what awaits you. Get away from your mundane life and sail with me to a better place, where it is more pleasant, where you can do more and feel more. Relax. Don't worry about anything. I will make your...
