The brothers’ Grimm fairy tale about Snow White has a thousand versions. Bratislava puppet theatre brings thousand-and-first. The production team respects the well known, a little frightening plot of the classic story (a jealous stepmother wants the heart of Snow White, the huntsman brings her an animal heart, the stepmother tries to get rid of Snow White with a poisoned apple, Snow White bites into it and…), but they update this mini-horror for children in an original way and offer a number of merry and fresh ideas. The author and the director work with humour and elements of absurdity. Snow White and the seven dwarves is based on professional comedianship, traditional elements of puppetry and on a classic tale spiced by contemporary phenomena. This all guarantees that Snow White is the one who falls asleep, not the spectators. 

Snow White and the seven dwarves amuses us by INTERSECTIONS of comical puppets and a tragic plot.

Author: Vít Peřina

Director: Michaela Homolová

Scenic design, puppets:  Robert Smolík

Music:  Filip Homola

Michaela Homolová, Vít Peřina, Filip Homola, Robert  Smolík

These artists form an experienced team with many collective productions for the youngest audience in the Naive Theatre Liberec (About the Lamb that Fell from the Sky, Choo. Choo. Whistle. Woof!) and successful adaptations of classic fairy tales for the whole family (Budulínek, Little Red Riding Hood’s Grandma is Celebrating her Birthday Today!), which brought them prestigious awards at home and abroad. 

The most famous adaptation of Herbert George Wells’ famous novel about the Martian invasion of Earth, War of the Worlds, was made for radio – the American CBS station. Director Orson Welles’ suggestive treatment was styled as a live news report and led to panic among listeners who believed that the invasion was actually taking place. It was the first treatment of the phenomenon of the power of the newly emerging mass media, its ability to create deceptively suggestive images, manipulate reality and influence people’s thinking. A phenomenon that is more than familiar to us today, almost a hundred years on, but against which, with the development of social networks and artificial intelligence, we as a society seem increasingly defenseless.

The multi-layered War of the Worlds – these are the INTERSECTIONS of puppetry and sound.

By H. G. Wells

Stageplay: Tomáš Jarkovský and Jakub Vašíček

Directed by: Jakub Vašíček

Set design by: Kamil Bělohlávek

Music: Daniel Čámský

Dramaturgy: Tomáš Jarkovský

Photo: Milan Hajn

Jarkovský – Vašíček – Čámský

Tomáš Jarkovský – scriptwriter, dramaturge and director of the DRAK Theatre in Hradec Králové and Jakub Vašíček – director, actor and artistic director at the DRAK. They are two of the most prominent artists in the field of theatre for children and youth in the Czech Republic. Together with Daniel Čámský – composer, drummer, pianist and sailor, they have created several exceptional theatre productions in established theatres and on the independent stage, for which they have won both domestic and international awards. They enjoy exploring liminal situations and asking deep questions. They have collaborated with Bratislava Puppet Theatre on the project The Registered Association of Czech and Slovak Puppeteers presents: Kašpárek and Zbojník. 

GALLERY

The brothers’ Grimm fairy tale about Snow White has a thousand versions. Bratislava puppet theatre brings thousand-and-first. The production team respects the well known, a little frightening plot of the classic story (a jealous stepmother wants the heart of Snow White, the huntsman brings her an animal heart, the stepmother tries to get rid of Snow White with a poisoned apple, Snow White bites into it and…), but they update this mini-horror for children in an original way and offer a number of merry and fresh ideas. The author and the director work with humour and elements of absurdity. Snow White and the seven dwarves is based on professional comedianship, traditional elements of puppetry and on a classic tale spiced by contemporary phenomena. This all guarantees that Snow White is the one who falls asleep, not the spectators. 

Snow White and the seven dwarves amuses us by INTERSECTIONS of comical puppets and a tragic plot.

Author: Vít Peřina

Director: Michaela Homolová

Scenic design, puppets:  Robert Smolík

Music:  Filip Homola

Michaela Homolová, Vít Peřina, Filip Homola, Robert  Smolík

These artists form an experienced team with many collective productions for the youngest audience in the Naive Theatre Liberec (About the Lamb that Fell from the Sky, Choo. Choo. Whistle. Woof!) and successful adaptations of classic fairy tales for the whole family (Budulínek, Little Red Riding Hood’s Grandma is Celebrating her Birthday Today!), which brought them prestigious awards at home and abroad. 

The theatrical vanitas of an animator and pathologist who both animates and dissects the world of things and puppets. Entering the body is always a breaking of taboos because it disrupts cosmic unity. Macrocosm and microcosm are paramount here. Absolute unpacking. Carefully selected texts by Ján Jessenius, Jindřich Štyrský, Jaroslav Durych and music by Václav Karel Holan Rovenský resound in this laborious dissection.

In Dissextion we experience the INTERSECTIONS of visual installation and puppet theatre. 

Authors: Lukáš Jiřička, Veronika Svobodová and Robert Smolík

Voice: Zdeněk “Hmyzák” Novák

Singing: Lada Girls Choir

Acknowledgements: Tomáš Procházka

Photo: Martin Špelda

Photo: Denisa Romerová 

Cast: Robert Smolík

Robert Smolík

Set designer, illustrator, puppet and mechanical object maker, performer and artist-activist in his hometown of Jičín. He runs a cabinet of scenic design at the Department of Alternative and Puppet Theatre in Prague. He has collaborated with theatres in Poland, Slovenia, Canada and the Czech Republic. He has worked on puppets for film and is also a graphic designer and illustrator. He is involved in the rescue and cultural revival of Jičín monuments. In 2018, Robert Smolík was nominated for the Czech Lion together with Henrich Boraros for the film The Devil’s Quill. He is associated with the Bratislava Puppet Theatre for the production of Snow White, for which he created the set, puppets and costumes.

GALLERY

Loutka (puppet) + hriště (playground) = Loutkoviště. A puppet playground. Five original puppet stages, each one with a different theme (circus, forest, castle, hospoda, and tropical island). Five sets of puppets (more than 60 puppets in all). All of it open to play. On the one hand reminiscent of the old Czech tradition of miniature “family puppet theatres,” Loutkoviště offers a totally new interactive format for both indoor and outdoor festivals – an open environment that puts children and their parents on the side of the creative process. 

Concept: Táňa Švehlová

Puppets: Zuzana Smolová 

Scenography: Zuzana Smolová and Peter Gaffney 

Support: Nadace Život Umělce and Mezinárodní Visegrádský Fond 

Production: Art Prometheus 

 Waxwing Theatre   

Based in South Bohemia, and led by Zuzana Smolová (CZ) and Peter Gaffney (US), Waxwing Theatre creates performances that juxtapose puppets with the expressive potential of basic materials – clay and soil, sticks and leaves – to generate unique situations, characters, movements, and storylines.  

GALÉRIA

Loutka (puppet) + hriště (playground) = Loutkoviště. A puppet playground. Five original puppet stages, each one with a different theme (circus, forest, castle, hospoda, and tropical island). Five sets of puppets (more than 60 puppets in all). All of it open to play. On the one hand reminiscent of the old Czech tradition of miniature “family puppet theatres,” Loutkoviště offers a totally new interactive format for both indoor and outdoor festivals – an open environment that puts children and their parents on the side of the creative process. 

Concept: Táňa Švehlová

Puppets: Zuzana Smolová 

Scenography: Zuzana Smolová and Peter Gaffney 

Support: Nadace Život Umělce and Mezinárodní Visegrádský Fond 

Production: Art Prometheus 

 Waxwing Theatre   

Based in South Bohemia, and led by Zuzana Smolová (CZ) and Peter Gaffney (US), Waxwing Theatre creates performances that juxtapose puppets with the expressive potential of basic materials – clay and soil, sticks and leaves – to generate unique situations, characters, movements, and storylines.  

GALÉRIA

Loutka (puppet) + hriště (playground) = Loutkoviště. A puppet playground. Five original puppet stages, each one with a different theme (circus, forest, castle, hospoda, and tropical island). Five sets of puppets (more than 60 puppets in all). All of it open to play. On the one hand reminiscent of the old Czech tradition of miniature “family puppet theatres,” Loutkoviště offers a totally new interactive format for both indoor and outdoor festivals – an open environment that puts children and their parents on the side of the creative process. 

Concept: Táňa Švehlová

Puppets: Zuzana Smolová 

Scenography: Zuzana Smolová and Peter Gaffney 

Support: Nadace Život Umělce and Mezinárodní Visegrádský Fond 

Production: Art Prometheus 

 Waxwing Theatre   

Based in South Bohemia, and led by Zuzana Smolová (CZ) and Peter Gaffney (US), Waxwing Theatre creates performances that juxtapose puppets with the expressive potential of basic materials – clay and soil, sticks and leaves – to generate unique situations, characters, movements, and storylines.  

GALÉRIA

Loutka (puppet) + hriště (playground) = Loutkoviště. A puppet playground. Five original puppet stages, each one with a different theme (circus, forest, castle, hospoda, and tropical island). Five sets of puppets (more than 60 puppets in all). All of it open to play. On the one hand reminiscent of the old Czech tradition of miniature “family puppet theatres,” Loutkoviště offers a totally new interactive format for both indoor and outdoor festivals – an open environment that puts children and their parents on the side of the creative process. 

Concept: Táňa Švehlová

Puppets: Zuzana Smolová 

Scenography: Zuzana Smolová and Peter Gaffney 

Support: Nadace Život Umělce and Mezinárodní Visegrádský Fond 

Production: Art Prometheus 

 Waxwing Theatre   

Based in South Bohemia, and led by Zuzana Smolová (CZ) and Peter Gaffney (US), Waxwing Theatre creates performances that juxtapose puppets with the expressive potential of basic materials – clay and soil, sticks and leaves – to generate unique situations, characters, movements, and storylines.  

GALÉRIA

Loutka (puppet) + hriště (playground) = Loutkoviště. A puppet playground. Five original puppet stages, each one with a different theme (circus, forest, castle, hospoda, and tropical island). Five sets of puppets (more than 60 puppets in all). All of it open to play. On the one hand reminiscent of the old Czech tradition of miniature “family puppet theatres,” Loutkoviště offers a totally new interactive format for both indoor and outdoor festivals – an open environment that puts children and their parents on the side of the creative process. 

Concept: Táňa Švehlová

Puppets: Zuzana Smolová 

Scenography: Zuzana Smolová and Peter Gaffney 

Support: Nadace Život Umělce and Mezinárodní Visegrádský Fond 

Production: Art Prometheus 

 Waxwing Theatre   

Based in South Bohemia, and led by Zuzana Smolová (CZ) and Peter Gaffney (US), Waxwing Theatre creates performances that juxtapose puppets with the expressive potential of basic materials – clay and soil, sticks and leaves – to generate unique situations, characters, movements, and storylines.  

GALÉRIA

Workshop demonstrating how to make a painting move by body movement and vice versa, how to capture movement with a brush with Miriam Kalinková.

The band was formed in 2016 as a trio of young boys who discovered their passion for music during a summer camp. Subsequently, they began to develop their interest together in Bratislava, focusing exclusively on original work from the very first moment. Since 2018, The AnyOne have been regularly releasing singles on digital platforms and performing several times a month, mainly in Bratislava at public club concerts. The band’s work is dominated by rock, but they are no strangers to blues or classic rock’n’roll.

Timotej Cesnak – lead guitar, vocals

Pavol Cesnak – rhythm guitar, vocals

Daniel Zwach – bass guitar, vocals

Adam Tóth – drums, percussion, vocals