Concept Authors: Zala Dobovšek, Nina Šorak, Tin Grabnar, Asja Kahrimanović Babnik
Director – Tin Grabnar
Dramaturg – Zala Dobovšek
Designer – Matija Medved
Stop-Motion Animation Designers: Matija Medved, Lea Vučko
Assistant Director – Nina Šorak
Costume Designer – Sara Smrajc Žnidaršič
Composer – Mitja Vrhovnik Smrekar
Video Mapping Designer – Boštjan Čadež
Video Editing and Assistance – Lea Vučko
Animation – Kolja Saksida
Sound Effects Designer – Mateja Starič
Language Coaching – Metka Damjan
Lighting Design – Kristjan Vidner
Stage Manager and Sound Designer – Aleš Erjavec
Color Correction – Miran Bratuš
Set Production: Sandra Birjukov, Marjetka Valjavec, Iztok Bobić, Zoran Srdić, Polona Černe, Uroš Mehle s. p., Matija Medved, Boštjan Čadež
Cast – Asja Kahrimanović Babnik

Photos by Jaka Varmuž

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 animation is intertwined with live video projections and virtual drawings. The dynamic video mapping and tailor made sensors, which are depicting all the movements on the table live, blur the boundary between the real and projected image. It is an entirely new technique in the puppet theatre, overstepping and softening the boundaries between the individual genres. This visually animated adventure is interesting for theatre artists, animators and filmmakers alike, especially because they allow strong intertwinement of variety of genres. The video projections absorb the audience into the very heart of an exciting story about the atrocities of war, which are ‘fortunately’ happening ‘somewhere else’. Or maybe not?
This is a touching story about the absurdity of war and its horrors.

The Ljubljana Puppet Theatre is the main Slovenian puppet theatre staging puppet and drama performances for children, youngsters and adults. The Ljubljana Puppet Theatre builds on the hundred-year tradition of Slovenian puppetry. The theatre manages five regular and several smaller, occasional venues. At these venues, which offer seating for approximately a thousand people, it produces fifteen premieres a year and is visited by around 110,000 spectators.