Events
The puppet-cabaret performance Kar, directed by Mitja Solce (Teatro matita), featuring the Czech-Slovakian-Slovenian band Fekete Seretlek, in the Competition programme; and Being Don Quixote, also directed by Matija Solce and co-produced by Teatro matita and International Center for Puppetry Arts Koper,
A Little Lamp, Pea and Feather, produced by the Ljubljana Puppet Theatre, A Story about a Boy and a Penguin and Little Blue and Little Yellow, produced by the Maribor Puppet Theatre, and Little Night Tales and Pulcinella, produced by Teatro matita, the exhibition Contemporary Slovenian Puppet Theatre, the workshop Secret of Life Buttons, and the conference Slovenian Puppetry Today with Jelena Sitar and Mojca Redjko (Maribor Puppet Theatre) during Focus Slovenia,
Happy Bones, Little Night Tales, and Pulcinella, produced by Teatro matita, and a concert by Fekete Seretlek, featuring Mitja Solce on accordion,
Performances
His first show E beh? proved a great success and was subsequently presented at the Ana Desetnica International Street Theatre Festival, the PUF Festival (Award for Inventive Transformation of Tradition) and the Trnfest Festival in Slovenia, as well as at a range of other festivals in Italy (2nd place in the Marionetta d'Oro Award at Mittelfest in Cividale), Austria (Mini-Mikro-Impro), France (Charleville), Spain (Santiago de Compostella), Estonia (Treff Festival), Austria (Multikids), Slovakia (Cibulak), Russia, Belgium and the Czech Republic.
In 2003, Matija Solce's second show Little Night Tales was equally well received at international festivals in Slovenia and abroad: Italy (XXVIII Festival Internazionale dei Burattini e delle Figure, Cervia, Arrivano dal Mare); the Czech Republic (2004 Animation and Performance Award and a nomination for the Erik Award at the meeting of Czech Puppeteers and the Best Show Award at the 2005 Zlomvaz Festival of Puppetry Schools); Spain; Finland; France; Belgium; Croatia (2006 Animation and Puppets Award at PIF Zagreb); Estonia (2007 Blessed Gift Prize at the Treff Festival); Slovakia and Russia.
His next production The Joke, an evocative mix of object and wordplay, sound and body movement, received an award at Mittelfest in Cividale in 2007. A production based on Gogol's short story followed. Nose combines absurd and grotesque drama, puppet theatre and expressive acting with the least speaking possible. In 2009, the production Attention, MOOSE! was created in Sweden. It is a simple story about the relationship between man and nature with folk motives from Europe and Latin America that give the music an important role in expressing the characters and the atmosphere.
See also
External links
- Teatro matita and Matija Solce website
- Teatro matita blog (2010)
- Teatro matita videos (till 2012)
Gallery
