Ljubljana Puppet Theatre

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Ljubljana Puppet Theatre 2012 Photo Nejc Saje (1).jpgLjubljana Puppet Theatre, 2012

Established in 1948, the Ljubljana Puppet Theatre (LGL) has greatly shaped the development of Slovene puppetry during the first half of the 20th century. It still does so, nowadays focusing on performances for children (theatre as well as puppetry) yet also offering a puppetry programme for adults. Its productions frequently receive wide national and international acclaim.

LGL organises the biennial Lutke International Puppet Festival and is bestowing the Little Prince Award. Having merged with the Theatre for Children and Youth (GOML) in 2009, it now also runs the Golden Stick Festival and sets up children's and youth theatre productions. The Museum of Puppetry, a joint project of the theatre and the Ljubljanski grad Public Institute, opened up in 2015 at the Ljubljana Castle.


Background

Ljubljana Puppet Theatre emerged as a follow-up to numerous semi-professional puppet groups organised in the region since the beginning of the 20th century. Soon after its establishment, the theatre found its own mode of expression and became the leading puppet theatre in the then Yugoslavia. At first it focused on works by Slovene authors, though the theatre's most important performances were adaptations of foreign works. One such production is the Spotty the Ball [Žogica Marogica], written by the Czech puppeteer Jan Malik, which remains unchanged in the repertory of Ljubljana Puppet Theatre since its première in 1951. Another timeless hit appears to be the Twinkle Sleepyhead [Zvezdica zaspanka], written by Frane Milčinski - Ježek and in the repertory ever since 1955. It was followed by the same-titled film (in fact the first Yugoslav colour marionette film), which greatly contributed to its huge success.

At first, the performances were based on the marionette technique, but soon the theatre started to develop hand puppets. From the seventies onward the theatre has been focusing on advancing the technological and dramatic possibilities of puppetry, cultivating a captivating mixture of classical contents and experimentation.

Not surprisingly, Ljubljana Puppet Theatre productions are often included in distinguished Slovene theatre festivals. The theatre has collaborated with great number of renowned theatre directors (Zvone Šedlbauer, Janez Pipan, Robert Waltl, Vinko Möderndorfer, Mile Korun, Silvan Omerzu), visual artists and musicians.

Main activities

Ljubljana Puppet Theatre repertory programme freely encompasses classical puppetry tradition alongside the more contemporary forms. The theatre works with domestic as well as international authors. The programme is divided into two segments, puppet performances and drama performances, including eight to ten premières annually. LGL organises puppetry workshops for children and, since 2009, the Puppet Forum, a series of gatherings of puppet creators and the audience, through which the Ljubljana Puppet Theatre wishes to advance the art of puppetry.

The theatre cultivates all the main puppetry genres (marionette, hand puppets, Java puppets, shadow puppets, mimic puppets) and preserves more than 2000 puppets from past performances. It keeps an important collection relating to the Slovene puppetry heritage – see Ljubljana Puppet Theatre Museum Collection, now partly incorporated into the Museum of Puppetry.

It runs two festivals, bestows puppetry and drama awards and is extremely active on the international stage.

Programme

Ljubljana Puppet Theatre's programme includes stagings of classical children works as well as performances based on fresh children's texts by established (Svetlana Makarovič, Boris A. Novak, Vinko Möderndorfer) as well as emerging Slovene and international authors (Roald Dahl, Toon Tellegen, Wolf Erlbruch).

Together with the Konj Puppet Theatre LGL produced a few striking creations by the renowned Slovene artist Silvan Omerzu, i.e. Forbidden Loves, based on antique motifs, and awarded in Hungary, Croatia and Bulgaria in 2010, and an interpretation of Pinnochio, featuring different puppet techniques and dimensions, acting, shadows and music.

Ljubljana Puppet Theatre GL Konj 2009 Prepovedane ljubezni Photo Ziga Koritnik (2).jpgQueen Parsiphea, who makes love with the divine bull and gives birth to Minotaur: just one of the famous antique motives featured in Prepovedane ljubezni [Forbidden Loves] conceived by Silvan Omerzu, a director and artist. Produced by Ljubljana Puppet Theatre and Konj Puppet Theatre in 2009.

Doctor Faustus [Doktor Faust] is based on the motifs from the first Slovene production of the play (1938) by Milan Klemenčič, the founder of Slovene puppetry, after whom the most prominent Slovene award for achievement in puppetry is named (Klemenčič Award). The performance still uses puppets from the original staging.

Ljubljana Puppet Theatre 2005 Doktor Faust Photo Nejc Saje.jpgDoctor Faustus performance staged in 2005 with the puppets made in 1938 by Milan Klemenčič. Directed by Jelena Sitar, music by Igor Cvetko, produced by Ljubljana Puppet Theatre.

International projects

The International Puppetry Association (UNIMA) congress was first held in Ljubljana in 1933, and then repeated in 1992 again. Then a new biennial festival was initiated, known today as the Lutke International Puppet Festival.

An example of international co-production was LGL's 2009 performances that included a highly engaged puppet performance for adults about alienation in contemporary society Love Dolls (2009), co-produced with the Dutch DudaPaiva Company, curiously fused modern dance, puppetry, music and multimedia.

Ljubljana Puppet Theatre 2009 Love dolls Photo Ziga Koritnik.jpgLove dolls by Duda Paiva (Brazil/Netherlands), a puppetry/objects extravaganza with live music, coproduced by Ljubljana Puppet Theatre and Duda Paiva Company in 2009

Ljubljana Puppet Theatre has been awarded funds from the Creative Europe programme of the European Union for a project entitled All Strings Attached: Pioneers Of European Puppetry Behind the Scenes. A more recent international project is also the Numeric’s Art Puppetry Project, an enterprise of developing and staging the various intersections between puppetry, technology and digital arts.

International awards

Ljubljana Puppet Theatre has toured through more than 80 cities in 30 countries and received many awards at international festivals, such as the International Puppet Theatre Festival Pierrot (Bulgaria), PIF Festival (Croatia), International Puppet Festival Golden Spark (Serbia), World Festival of Puppet Art (Czech Republic), etc.

Venues

  • Large hall, 253 seats total.

Ljubljana Puppet Theatre 2010 Large hall Photo Ziga Koritnik (1).jpgLjubljana Puppet Theatre, Large hall, 2010

  • Small Hall, 100 seats total.

Ljubljana Puppet Theatre 2010 Small Hall Photo Ziga Koritnik (1).jpgLjubljana Puppet Theatre, Small Hall, 2010

  • Stage Under the Stars, 300 seats total.

Ljubljana Puppet Theatre 2010 Stage Under the Stars Photo Ziga Koritnik (1).jpgLjubljana Puppet Theatre, Stage Under the Stars, 2010

  • Culturoom, 70 seats total.

Ljubljana Puppet Theatre 2010 Culturoom Photo Ziga Koritnik (2).jpgLjubljana Puppet Theatre, Cultroom, 2010

  • Tunnel

Ljubljana Puppet Theatre 2010 Tunnel Photo Ziga Koritnik (2).jpgLjubljana Puppet Theatre, Tunnel, 2010

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