Programme of the theatrical section of the Festival
7th October, Sunday
Jazdów 1 street,
00-467 Warsaw
"Victoria 2.0" - Moment Maribor
country: Slovenia
The original project of drama theatre, puppets, objects and video technology, in the boundaries of drama and performance, puppets and theatre of objects, reality and illusion, for youth and adults.
Winners are confident. Winners are passionate. Winners appreciate themselves. Winners know what they want and how to achieve it. Winners never quit. Winners are disciplined. Winners don’t wait for perfect conditions.
Winners know that the biggest risk is to not take a risk. Winners compare themselves only to themselves.
Winners don’t need no one’s confirmation. Winners are healthy and they eat healthy. Winners are nicely built and have beautiful, solid, compact butts. Winners have partners. With a beautiful, solid, compact butts. Winners have sex. Passionate sex. Many of them. Friends also. Winners are loved. Winners love life. And life loves them. Winners are not many. Winners are very few. Winners win.
08th October, Monday
Magazynowa 14a street
Warsaw
"Preludes, duck death tulip" - La Capra Ballerina
country: Italy
We can give an object life by making our thoughts its own.
When life leaves someone, we can render them eternal by making their thoughts our own.
… Death is dead.
The supernatural in puppetry's multiverse.
A wall-less room and a naked bed is the surreal space to tell a story written for children’s eyes, that gives voice to the feelings of innocence and fear of life’s ending. A scene that, sooner or later, all of us will walk on as protagonist.
09th October, Tuesday
Jazdów 1 street,
00-467 Warsaw
"The Last Rat of Theresienstadt" - Hilary Chaplain
country: USA
In Czechoslovakia during WWII, there were many prominent artists imprisoned in the concentration camp or "Ghetto Town" of Theresienstadt who secretly created cabarets, operas, paintings and poetry. Pavel, the rat, falls in love with the variety show and when all the other rats leave in search of food, he stays on, spellbound by the performances. He scrounges for food in the kitchen where he encounters the cook Sofia, a former Berlin cabaret artist. They teach each other how to survive through art and humor.
This show will incorporate puppetry and projections inspired by the cabaret, art and poetry created in the camps.
Pavel, the rat, is a bunraku style puppet minipulated by two puppeteers.
10th October, Wednesday
Jazdów 1 street,
00-467 Warsaw
"Biography" - Theatre Karlsson Haus
country: Russia
One life's story, which was written by sir Hans Christian Andersen in 1842 and was called by him "Ugly Duckling".
Who are we? Swans? Or ugly ducklings? We can see a Swan while watching in a reflection on the water, this is how it happened in a story which was written by Andersen - a perfect image and a similarity of God. Still on Earth an ugly duckling will always be an ugly duckling.
Can it turn into a swan?
Maybe this can happen only in Heaven.
11th October, Thursday
Mińska 25 street
Warsaw
"V" - Monika Wachowicz
country: Poland
„V” is a solo stage project created by Monika Wachowicz (an actress and a dancer in Teatr A Part) in which the actions are stimulated between theatrical emotions, body and dance. „V” in the heroine’s world becomes a retour to the past, necessity of facing life and vital energy. This is also a leisurely journey, dealing with loneliness, loss and slow getting used to it.
12th October, Friday
ul. Mińska 25
Warszawa
"Wake up" - Natalia Sakowicz
original title: Pobudka
country: Poland
Long, long time ago, or perhaps not so long ago, or perhaps at the time being, there lives a girl. She is not especially pretty, or kind-hearted, also not so religious, and she is surely not one of the princesses, similar to the ones she remembers from her childhood books. She is just an ordinary girl, just as other girls from her land. She should grow up and become a woman. She should do many things, and she should not do even more. But instead, she is lost in the forest. A clumsy one. And in that forest, she should be aware of many dangers. It would be good to find a way out, but which way is it?
“Wake up” is a solo puppet performance inspired by most popular Grimm Brothers tales. Its main topic revolves around the theme of contemporary womanhood. Is there a link between a modern girl and a Sleeping Beauty or Little Red Riding Hood? Do they have anything in common, or perhaps not?
13th October, Saturday
Podskarbińska 2 street
Warsaw
Włodzimierz Pawłow's "Lalki (Puppets)" photography exhibition
Opening of Włodzimierz Pawłow's "Lalki (Puppets)" photography exhibition.
Mińska 25 street
Warsaw
"Morgan and Freeman" - Ferenc Fehér
country: Hungary
A smart and mad dance piece with someone who is a puppet himself: a little vivified man.
Name: Freeman
Height: 35 cm or smaller
Shoe size: 5 cm
Viciousness: Enormous
Is he friendly? Not really…
14th October, Sunday
Mińska 25 street
Warsaw
"The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time" - AST National Academy of Theatre Arts in Krakow. Branch in Wroclaw
original title: "Dziwny przypadek psa nocną porą"
country: Poland
Simon Stephens (based on Mark Haddon's novel)
The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time is a crime story. It takes place in the English city, Swindon. A fifteen years old Christopher finds the killed dog Wellington in the garden of his neighbor. He become the self-styled detective and he is the extraordinary boy with an autism syndrome.
It is also the story about family, about lying and telling the truth.
We invite an audience to the Christopher’s world and to a criminal investigation circle, so they are sitting next to the actors and watch what happens really close.
Who is quilty? Who is a victim? And maybe it is the same person?
Mińska 25 street
Warsaw
"Exuvia" - Magical Theatre & the Amanda Puijk Company
country: The Netherlands
Exuvia is a theatrical performance about the search for our inner possibilities and limitations. A beginning of the creation, bodies in space, a never ending space in which we are not the end of evolution. A search in today's society which is becoming increasingly materialistic. A world in which we are barely conscious that we belong to a larger entity.
In her puppet performance without words, Charlotte will take you on a never ending journey in which we become conscious of the relativity of our surroundings. She will sweep the floor from under your feet, but will catch you once again, and just for a moment she will make you part of a bigger universe.
Mińska 25 street
Warsaw
Closing ceremony of the Festival
Announcement of the international verdicts of the Jury of the XIII International Festival of Puppet Theatre and Animated Films for Adults "Puppet is a Human too".
