Gledališče lutk Konj
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Silvan Omerzu, Director
Konj Puppet Theatre
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Past Events
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18 Nov 2016
30 Nov 2016
Duck, Death and the Tulip, produced by the Ljubljana Puppet Theatre, You Catch!, produced by Ljubljana Puppet Theatre and Konj Puppet Theatre, and Doctor Faustus, produced by Ljubljana Puppet Theatre, at the 7th Lutkokaz Puppetry Festival
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6 Apr 2016
11 Apr 2016
United Kingdom Aberdeen,Cumbernauld,Glenrothes,Lochgelly,North Berwick Cumbernauld Theatre,Lochgelly Centre,North Berwick Community Centre,Rothes Halls,The Lemon Tree
Catch Me!, produced by the Ljubljana Puppet Theatre and Konj Puppet Theatre
at the Puppet Animation Festival in Scotland
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24 Sep 2015
Krabat, co-produced by the Ljubljana Puppet Theatre and Konj Puppet Theatre, at the 9th International Puppet Theatre for Adults Festival "Pierrot"
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17 Jun 2015
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30 Sep 2015
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8 Feb 2014
You Catch!, produced by Ljubljana Puppet Theatre and Konj Puppet Theatre, at the Small Size, Big Festival
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9 Nov 2013
13 Nov 2013
You Catch!, produced by Ljubljana Puppet Theatre and Konj Puppet Theatre
at the Festival Culturescapes
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3 Nov 2013
4 Nov 2013
You Catch!, produced by Ljubljana Puppet Theatre and Konj Puppet Theatre, and The Trial or The Woeful Story of Joseph K. produced by the Maribor Puppet Theatre, at the 18th Puppet Theatre Festival Rijeka
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26 Oct 2013
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15 May 2013
You Catch! produced by the Ljubljana Puppet Theatre and co-produced by Konj Puppet Theatre at the International Festival of Puppet Theatre for Children - LUT Fest
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20 Sep 2011
Forbidden Loves by Silvan Omerzu produced by Ljubljana Puppet Theatre and Konj Puppet Theatre
at the Spectaculo Interesse Festival Ostrava
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2 Sep 2011
Forbidden Loves by Silvan Omerzu produced by Ljubljana Puppet Theatre and Konj Puppet Theatre
at the International Puppet Theatre Festival PIF
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20 Aug 2010
Forbidden Loves by Silvan Omerzu produced by Ljubljana Puppet Theatre and Konj Puppet Theatre
at the Pécs International Puppet Festival for Adults
Early performances
The troupe created many collaborative performances with animators Brane Vižintin and Boštjan Sever, writer Andrej Rozman-Roza, musician Erno Sebastian and other guest artists, and also prepared productions based on texts by Louis Edmond Duranty (Make a Coffin for Him, 1993), Lorenzo da Ponte (Don Juan, 1995), Alfred Jarry (King Ubu, 1998) and Federico Garcia Lorca (Don Cristobal Alba, 2000). Its performances were presented and awarded at festivals at home and abroad, in Austria, Belgium, Bosnia, the Czech Republic and the USA.
Recent perfomances
Silvan Omerzu, continued in 2001–2003 with the trilogy Stories of Life and Death premièred at Cankarjev dom Culture and Congress Centre: Farewell, Prince was based on the drama by the Flemish playwright and mystic Michel de Ghelderode, while Sandmann and Councillor Krespel were based on E T A Hoffman's stories. In these productions Omerzu's grotesque puppets were transformed into refined aesthetic creatures contemplating the purpose of life, the magic of death, pure art, divine perfection and the mystery of creation.
In 2006 at the Mladinsko Theatre he directed a performance of Kleist based on the love correspondence between the outsider of German Romanticism, Heinrich von Kleist, and various women. In 2008 Omerzu adapted Ivan Cankar's short story The Ward of Our Lady of Mercy for stage, transcribing the symbolist and decadent atmosphere of this work into an irresistible dramatic work.
In the same year he adapted and directed the story from Ovid's Metamorphoses about Echo and Narcissus. He continued with ancient myths in 2009 in Forbidden Loves, coproduced with Ljubljana Puppet Theatre. Forbidden Loves presents the stories of Echo and Narcissus, Daedalus and Icarus, queen Pasiphae (that conceived with a bull and gave birth to Minotaurus) and Pygmalion (the sculptor who fell in love with one of his sculptures). The performance received many international awards in Hungary, Croatia, Bolgaria as well as at home in Slovenia.
After two years he collaborated with Mladinsko Theatre again, this time with staging of a verse drama The Tower (Stolp) about the German romantic poet Friedrich Hölderlin written by Ivo Svetina. With the conforntation and intertwinement of actors and puppets he continued his exploration of relationship between them. With his characteristic minimalism of puppet animation he put under question the necessity of puppet movement.
Exhibitions
Silvan Omerzu has also engaged in the visual arts: his fine art puppet-sculpture installation Tears was presented at Božidar Jakac Gallery, Kostanjevica na Krki and at Ljubljana Castle, and was subsequently shown in Brussels in January 2008 within the scope of the Europalia project.
Children's perfomances
Although Omerzu's work is mainly intended for adult audiences, there have been some children's performances by Konj Puppet Theatre in recent years. These are Kroki and Friends (Kroki in prijatelji, 2006), Kroki Celebrates (Kroki praznuje, 2007), Kroki in the Theeatre (Kroki v gledališču, 2010) and Presents (Darila, 2010). The performances focus on Kroki, a little crocodile with many other animal friends.
See also
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Konj ('Horse') Puppet Theatre was established in 1993 by Silvan Omerzu, who studied fine arts in Ljubljana and then undertook puppet design and set design for puppet stages in Prague. +
Konj ('Horse') Puppet Theatre was established in 1993 by Silvan Omerzu, who studied fine arts in Ljubljana and then undertook puppet design and set design for puppet stages in Prague. +
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