Saturday, July 28, 2012

Czech fellows

Czech puppet theatre is more than known. I hope even beyond puppetry "circles". Czech theatre companies have mostly good stage design and nice marionettes. Divadlo Anpu from Prague brought to Gent their "peepshow" La Chambre Séparée (Separate room). Eventhough their "Chambre" got almost totally wet in the rain, they didn't give up and introduced their Erotic Cabaret to many visitors... 
There was a children version and adult version too. We could see the adult one. Thru a keyhole. And it looked so good. Vintage and dirty. I can't show, you must take a look inside yourself ;)


Also very typicall for czech theatre (but also czech movies, song, books... ) is their humor. There's something about it, and I'm sure it isn't just because the culture is so close to me. 



Theater of Víťa Marčík was performing their show about Snowhite in French. But really cute French. Mixing with spanish and czech and english too. They had perfect interaction with the audience and everybody was enjoying. It even stopped raining.  

Maybe you pass by some festival of puppet theatre. If you see in the program in brackets after a name of some theatre company "CZ", go and see. Might be a good one.


Tuesday, July 24, 2012

And the winner is...


The festival Puppetbuskers 2012 is over. The last three SUNNY(!) days brought up some more puppets, but actually also other non - puppetry experiences, but I'll get to those later. 
The very winner of Puppetbuskers is a duo from Belgium (Wallonia) called La Mandale. Their show "Citizen P" was indeed great. Coffins and sticks, corpses and sex... Funny and original "Pulcinella"!




We could follow the story of Pulcinella. How he was born, how he fell in love with his stick, how he met Alice from Wonderland and how he died... All of this being a parallel to the Orson Welles film Citizen Kane. So far I think, because the show "Citizen P" was in french, and unfortunately I did understand only very few...





There were also other "Punch and Judy" shows at the festival, but "Citizen P" was updated and fresh. Tradition is fine, but surely it helps if there are present motives/jokes/topics offered to the audience. 
Lookin' forward to see La Mandale at Puppetbuskers 2013. Au revoir!



Thursday, July 19, 2012

Puppetbuskers continues... 

... there is so much going on at the Puppetbuskers Festival... Here are at least few small moments of one cool road show.


It looks like a good action show!! Unfortunately we couldn't watch till the end, so I don't know who won the race. If it was the piggy, police, or the elephant. They are Anonima Teatro from France. 




Their stage works on the principe of old sewing machine. So sweet.. And I really like their DJ, and the music. BMW, Mitsubischi, Suzuki... Lalalalaa... 

Sunday, July 15, 2012

 When less is more - Puppetbuskers Festival - day one.


He proved it again. A pair of hands, one basket and there's a compleet greek tragedy. Very charming man, Diego Stirman. Enjoyed it so much.

Friday, July 13, 2012


Friday the 13th, the day before Puppetbuskers Festival, Gent, 2012

Tomorrow starts a big festival here in Gent, in Belgium, where I’m living now already for four months. It’s a 10 days long festival of everything, including a lot of puppet theatre. I’ll be part of it. I’ll be performing our show “Popoty” which was made in Vienna about a year ago. It is going to a be a premiere of Popoty in dutch, the third language already. Let’s see how it’s going. Good luck, Popoty, you always hungry tomcat!

Popoty and Lena at Naschmarkt, Vienna, 2011

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