Komodo is the story of Peter – a young boy who is fascinated by everything to do with dragons. That’s why his parents take him on a journey to Indonesia, where the largest lizard in the world – the Komodo dragon – lives on the island of Komodo. In Indonesia, however, everything is a little different. There are masses of tourists everywhere, and so the experience is in danger of being nowhere near the adventure they wanted. Childhood dreams are intertwined with reality and with the wild and green jungle. Komodo is a production in which young viewers are included in the story. The children physically participate in all the adventures and help Peter make his dreams come true. 

In Komodo we find the INTERSECTIONS of puppet theatre and children’s play.

The production won the Jan Borna Award at the Dítě v Dlouhé 2022 festival.

Authors: Petr Sís and Jakub Maksymov

Dramaturgy: Markéta Labusová 

Music: Markéta Labusová

Scenic design: Olga Ziebińska

Directed by: Jakub Maksymov

Cast: 

Radek Pokorný 

Jiří Šponar 

Kristýna Dámová 

Stefanie Šubová 

Petr Šmíd

Photo: Tomáš Glasberger

                                                            Jakub Maksymov

– director, author, teacher. He has worked with theatres and independent companies in the Czech Republic and abroad (Slovakia, Serbia, Bosnia and Herzegovina, North Macedonia, France, Germany). He focuses on prose adaptations, where the starting point is not the text itself, but the specific material, objects, matter. His productions have won many awards at home and abroad. He is the recipient of the Theatre Newspaper Award and the Theatre Critics’ Award.  

Olga Ziebińska

– visual artist, scenographer and designer. She studied at the Warsaw Academy of Fine Arts and at the Strate école de design in Paris. She is a permanent collaborator of Jakub Maksymov. For the Bratislava Puppet Theatre they have jointly prepared the productions The Entropic elves and The Little Water Sprite. 

GALLERY

Komodo is the story of Peter – a young boy who is fascinated by everything to do with dragons. That’s why his parents take him on a journey to Indonesia, where the largest lizard in the world – the Komodo dragon – lives on the island of Komodo. In Indonesia, however, everything is a little different. There are masses of tourists everywhere, and so the experience is in danger of being nowhere near the adventure they wanted. Childhood dreams are intertwined with reality and with the wild and green jungle. Komodo is a production in which young viewers are included in the story. The children physically participate in all the adventures and help Peter make his dreams come true. 

In Komodo we find the INTERSECTIONS of puppet theatre and children’s play.

The production won the Jan Borna Award at the Dítě v Dlouhé 2022 festival.

Authors: Petr Sís and Jakub Maksymov

Dramaturgy: Markéta Labusová 

Music: Markéta Labusová

Scenic design: Olga Ziebińska

Directed by: Jakub Maksymov

Cast: 

Radek Pokorný 

Jiří Šponar 

Kristýna Dámová 

Stefanie Šubová 

Petr Šmíd

Photo: Tomáš Glasberger

                                                            Jakub Maksymov

– director, author, teacher. He has worked with theatres and independent companies in the Czech Republic and abroad (Slovakia, Serbia, Bosnia and Herzegovina, North Macedonia, France, Germany). He focuses on prose adaptations, where the starting point is not the text itself, but the specific material, objects, matter. His productions have won many awards at home and abroad. He is the recipient of the Theatre Newspaper Award and the Theatre Critics’ Award.  

Olga Ziebińska

– visual artist, scenographer and designer. She studied at the Warsaw Academy of Fine Arts and at the Strate école de design in Paris. She is a permanent collaborator of Jakub Maksymov. For the Bratislava Puppet Theatre they have jointly prepared the productions The Entropic elves and The Little Water Sprite. 

GALLERY

In 2012, the prayer “Mother of God, banish Putin!” was chanted in Moscow’s Cathedral of Christ the Saviour, with which the girl group Pussy Riot protested against Putin’s return to the presidency and the close contacts between the Orthodox Church leadership and the state power. The girls were arrested and, in a rigged trial, two of them were convicted. They served their sentences in the cruellest prison camps in Siberia. Their warnings about Putin seem prophetic today, and their courage is exceptionally inspiring, especially in our time. 

In We are the power we hear INTERSECTIONS of spoken word, song and music.  

Libretto by Jiří Adámek Austerlitz, based on Nadezhda Tolokonnikova’s book How to Make a Revolution

Vocalists: Kateřina Císařová, Vendula Holičková and Bára Mišíková

Music: Jiří Adámek and Brno Contemporary orchestra

Musical arrangement and conductor: Pavel Šnajdr

Directed by: Jiří Adámek Austerlitz 

Jiří Adámek Austerlitz 

He has created an original type of “sonic” theatre in which he mixes musically composed structure, stylized acting and vocal technique at the border between words and singing.  As a librettist and director, he collaborates on music-theatre compositions, staged concerts, new operas, experimental and site-specific projects in a number of theatres (Studio of Heroes, Hadivadlo, New Stage of the National Theatre in Prague, Minor Theatre…). He has developed a specific approach to language and speech, especially with his theatre group Boca Loca Lab. He made his way to the Bratislava Puppet Theatre as the author of the libretto and director of the production Hugo’s World. He has won several important awards for his projects: the Music Theatre Now! award in Germany, the Original Theatre Form Award in Toruń, the Main Prize at the Bielsko-Biala Festival, the Divadelní noviny Award, the Grand Prix Nova in Romania and the Prix Bohemia.

Obsolete heroes with nothing left to prove. They’re just trying to survive, but when it’s really worth it, they’re capable of any impossible mission. 

The Expendables, the American action film in which director Sylvester Stallone has assembled an amazing cast of aging action movie stars from the 80s and 90s, is taken to pieces by the ensemble of Buchty a Loutky. In the film, a group of assassins arrive on the island of Vilena to take out a dangerous dictator. The mission gets complicated, but there are the Expendables – men who can be sacrificed for the benefit of the military operation. In this theatrical variation of the well-known film, you’ll find a parody of machismo, Disney-esque over-sweetened lyrical scenes or pop culture allusions, i.e., Buchty a Loutky with all that goes with it. 

The Expendables use the INTERSECTIONS of traditional puppets and film-realistic stories.

Directed by: Radek Beran and Buchty a Loutky

Screenplay: Buchty a loutky

Music: Vít Brukner

Puppets : Old Masters 

Set design: Buchty a Loutky

Starring: Marek Bečka, Vit Brukner, Radek Beran

Photo: Buchty a loutky

The project is financially supported by the City of Prague and the Ministry of Culture of the Czech Republic. 

Marek Bečka, Radek Beran, Vít Brukner, Zuzana Bruknerová 

BBBB – that’s Buchty a loutky, an independent theatre with more than 30 years of existence, more than 60 premieres, numerous musical and film projects, many tours around the world (Europe, Japan, Taiwan, USA, Canada, Mexico) and a lot of prestigious awards. With their unmistakable poetics, original methods and insight, Buchty a loutky have greatly influenced a number of emerging ensembles in the Czech Republic, which openly claim their legacy. Marek, Radek, Vítek and Zuzka staged the production Popolvár at the Bratislava Puppet Theatre. 

GALLERY

We bring a trailer full of games, nostalgia, fun, jokes and laughter for young and old who will rejuvenate with us at lightning speed. Come twist a crank and catch a few eggs, or sweeten the kids’ lives and feed them to their heart’s content. Fish pearls from the seabed or successfully swim through Whale Cove and bring your cargo safely to port. Make a mask or play a serenade for 12 sparrows. Painted backdrops, carved toys, wondrous mechanisms – fun without the sockets and computers. Come and play. 

Authors: Bára and Honza Sládek

Bára and Honza Sládek

Bára and Honza met at the Faculty of Multimedia Communications in Zlín. Bára studied animation, Honza studied spatial design. In their “working time” they work in graphics, illustration and animation. They work on the computer, each of their projects is different and they meet inspiring people in areas they would not normally access. But it’s a virtual world, they send the finished project over the internet and that’s basically the end of it. To create a wood puppet, for example, paint it and then witness the immediate reaction of a wider audience is a huge experience. That’s why more and more people are starting to create artistic spatial objects – attractions for the amusement of themselves, their children, their friends and gradually the public as well.

GALÉRIA

We bring a trailer full of games, nostalgia, fun, jokes and laughter for young and old who will rejuvenate with us at lightning speed. Come twist a crank and catch a few eggs, or sweeten the kids’ lives and feed them to their heart’s content. Fish pearls from the seabed or successfully swim through Whale Cove and bring your cargo safely to port. Make a mask or play a serenade for 12 sparrows. Painted backdrops, carved toys, wondrous mechanisms – fun without the sockets and computers. Come and play. 

Authors: Bára and Honza Sládek

Bára and Honza Sládek

Bára and Honza met at the Faculty of Multimedia Communications in Zlín. Bára studied animation, Honza studied spatial design. In their “working time” they work in graphics, illustration and animation. They work on the computer, each of their projects is different and they meet inspiring people in areas they would not normally access. But it’s a virtual world, they send the finished project over the internet and that’s basically the end of it. To create a wood puppet, for example, paint it and then witness the immediate reaction of a wider audience is a huge experience. That’s why more and more people are starting to create artistic spatial objects – attractions for the amusement of themselves, their children, their friends and gradually the public as well.

GALÉRIA

We bring a trailer full of games, nostalgia, fun, jokes and laughter for young and old who will rejuvenate with us at lightning speed. Come twist a crank and catch a few eggs, or sweeten the kids’ lives and feed them to their heart’s content. Fish pearls from the seabed or successfully swim through Whale Cove and bring your cargo safely to port. Make a mask or play a serenade for 12 sparrows. Painted backdrops, carved toys, wondrous mechanisms – fun without the sockets and computers. Come and play. 

Authors: Bára and Honza Sládek

Bára and Honza Sládek

Bára and Honza met at the Faculty of Multimedia Communications in Zlín. Bára studied animation, Honza studied spatial design. In their “working time” they work in graphics, illustration and animation. They work on the computer, each of their projects is different and they meet inspiring people in areas they would not normally access. But it’s a virtual world, they send the finished project over the internet and that’s basically the end of it. To create a wood puppet, for example, paint it and then witness the immediate reaction of a wider audience is a huge experience. That’s why more and more people are starting to create artistic spatial objects – attractions for the amusement of themselves, their children, their friends and gradually the public as well.

GALÉRIA

We bring a trailer full of games, nostalgia, fun, jokes and laughter for young and old who will rejuvenate with us at lightning speed. Come twist a crank and catch a few eggs, or sweeten the kids’ lives and feed them to their heart’s content. Fish pearls from the seabed or successfully swim through Whale Cove and bring your cargo safely to port. Make a mask or play a serenade for 12 sparrows. Painted backdrops, carved toys, wondrous mechanisms – fun without the sockets and computers. Come and play. 

Authors: Bára and Honza Sládek

Bára and Honza Sládek

Bára and Honza met at the Faculty of Multimedia Communications in Zlín. Bára studied animation, Honza studied spatial design. In their “working time” they work in graphics, illustration and animation. They work on the computer, each of their projects is different and they meet inspiring people in areas they would not normally access. But it’s a virtual world, they send the finished project over the internet and that’s basically the end of it. To create a wood puppet, for example, paint it and then witness the immediate reaction of a wider audience is a huge experience. That’s why more and more people are starting to create artistic spatial objects – attractions for the amusement of themselves, their children, their friends and gradually the public as well.

GALÉRIA

We bring a trailer full of games, nostalgia, fun, jokes and laughter for young and old who will rejuvenate with us at lightning speed. Come twist a crank and catch a few eggs, or sweeten the kids’ lives and feed them to their heart’s content. Fish pearls from the seabed or successfully swim through Whale Cove and bring your cargo safely to port. Make a mask or play a serenade for 12 sparrows. Painted backdrops, carved toys, wondrous mechanisms – fun without the sockets and computers. Come and play. 

Authors: Bára and Honza Sládek

Bára and Honza Sládek

Bára and Honza met at the Faculty of Multimedia Communications in Zlín. Bára studied animation, Honza studied spatial design. In their “working time” they work in graphics, illustration and animation. They work on the computer, each of their projects is different and they meet inspiring people in areas they would not normally access. But it’s a virtual world, they send the finished project over the internet and that’s basically the end of it. To create a wood puppet, for example, paint it and then witness the immediate reaction of a wider audience is a huge experience. That’s why more and more people are starting to create artistic spatial objects – attractions for the amusement of themselves, their children, their friends and gradually the public as well.

GALÉRIA

We bring a trailer full of games, nostalgia, fun, jokes and laughter for young and old who will rejuvenate with us at lightning speed. Come twist a crank and catch a few eggs, or sweeten the kids’ lives and feed them to their heart’s content. Fish pearls from the seabed or successfully swim through Whale Cove and bring your cargo safely to port. Make a mask or play a serenade for 12 sparrows. Painted backdrops, carved toys, wondrous mechanisms – fun without the sockets and computers. Come and play. 

Authors: Bára and Honza Sládek

Bára and Honza Sládek

Bára and Honza met at the Faculty of Multimedia Communications in Zlín. Bára studied animation, Honza studied spatial design. In their “working time” they work in graphics, illustration and animation. They work on the computer, each of their projects is different and they meet inspiring people in areas they would not normally access. But it’s a virtual world, they send the finished project over the internet and that’s basically the end of it. To create a wood puppet, for example, paint it and then witness the immediate reaction of a wider audience is a huge experience. That’s why more and more people are starting to create artistic spatial objects – attractions for the amusement of themselves, their children, their friends and gradually the public as well.

GALÉRIA

Production of miniature puppet theatre and mini puppets with Lukáš Tandara.