​Kotor Festival of Theatre for Children will celebrate its 25th jubilee edition – a quarter of a century of its existence. Main Theatre Program, which will be held from July 1-12, 2017 will be the richest so far. The audience will have an opportunity to see and enjoy twenty professional performances of various genres for both children and youth.

Besides the performances for the younger audience, in both competitive and review part of the Main Program, our dear friends City Theatre Podgorica will present the play WE CHILDREN FROM BAHNHOF ZOO. The theme of the play is closely related to the critical age for teenagers.

Kotor Festival of Theatre for Children will celebrate its 25th jubilee edition – a quarter of a century of its existence. Main Theatre Program, which will be held from July 1 – 12, 2017, will be the richest so far. The audience will have an opportunity to see and enjoy twenty professional performances of various genres for both children and youth.
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For the first time, our Festival will welcome guest thetre from Scotland - Tortoise in a Nutshell Theatre from Edinburgh. An award winning theatre, Tortoise in a Nutshell will present two productions to our audience - FISK, in coproduction with Theater Katapult from Denmark and Macrobert Art Centre, recommended for age 12+; and THE LOST THINGS recommended for age 9+. 

​FISK, authored by Tortoise in a Nutshell and Ann Sofie Oxenvad, directed by Ross Mackay, is about a tiny boat, which is tossed through rolling waves and thundering storms, like a speck amidst the immense turbulent seas. Steadily rowing forward into the nothingness is a fisherman, driven by despair, sailing to nowhere with all his worldly possessions. He looks out as the darkness looms and prepares himself to leap… But before he can jump out, something else jumps in; a mass of color thrashing about the tiny boat. This uninvited guest has finally broken through the surface to discover what lies above. Fisk is a story of a man and a fish, and the unexpected impact they have upon one another.

Kotor Festival of Theatre for Children will celebrate its 25th jubilee edition – a quarter of a century of its existence. The Opening Ceremony will be enriched with the performance of our dear guests from Spain - Dance troupe Roseland Musical from Barcelona, who will perform their amazing performance Journey to the center of the Earth, on Saturday, July 1, at 9:30 p.m. 

​Kotor Festival of Theatre for Children will celebrate its 25th jubilee edition – a quarter of a century of its existence. Main Theatre Program, which will be held from July 1-12, 2017 will be the richest so far. The audience will have an opportunity to see and enjoy twenty professional performances of various genres for both children and youth.

The City Theatre Podgorica will remind us of the meaning of love through a dramatic puppet romantic tragedy Romeo and Juliet inspired by Shakespeare’s piece. The theatrical adaptation by director Emilija Mrdaković will introduce the fight of the youth to illuminate the ‘’dark’’ world in which they grow. It’s very hard to cope with the vicious world and a system in which all that matters is to be successful, to own, consume, hate, and destroy. In the background of the image of such a world, the love of Romeo and Juliet and their special, divine gift to love, rises to the surface, as unreal. This show, intended for the age 10+, is also recommended to each and every romantic and misunderstood soul, and will be held on Thursday, July 6, 2017, at the Summer Stage, at 9:30 p.m. 

Kotor Festival of Theatre for Children will celebrate its 25th jubilee edition – a quarter of a century of its existence. Main Theatre Program, which will be held from July 1-12, 2017 will be the richest so far. The audience will have an opportunity to see and enjoy twenty professional performances of various genres for both children and youth.

The Virovitica Theatre from Croatia, in a cooperation with the Zadar Puppet Theatre, have prepared an interpretation based on the story  An Invisible Girl, written by Maja Prelević, that will enhance our Main theatre program. The theatrical adaptation, directed by Nikola Zavišić gave a breath of life to the creatively designed puppets without which this story wouldn't become a reality. An invisible Girl creates, out of rebellion, her own world, world opposite of the one strongly adhered by her parents. In responding to the parents' obsession with order, obedience, and everyday rituals focused mainly on material values, the Invisible girl proclaims strongly and defiantly - with disorder and disobedience- a loud and clear NO!

Kotor Festival of Theatre for Children will celebrate its 25th jubilee edition – a quarter of a century of its existence. Main Theatre Program, which will be held from July 1 – 12, 2017, will be the richest so far. The audience will have an opportunity to see and enjoy twenty professional performances of various genres for both children and youth.

From Serbia, we will be joined by our guests from Zemun Theater (Belgrade), who will perform a musical named The Magical Lyre, directed by Mateja Popović, on Monday, July 3, at 9:30 p.m. on the Summer Stage. Intended for the age 5+. ​

Kotor Festival of Theatre for Children will celebrate its 25th jubilee edition – a quarter of a century of its existence. Main Theatre Program, which will be held from July 1 – 12, 2017, will be the richest so far. The audience will have an opportunity to see and enjoy twenty professional performances of various genres for both children and youth.
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This summer birthday celebration will present many different genres of shows - drama, puppetry, audio-visual, dance, music, clowns, inclusive, interactive, non-verbal to the ones that are combined. Enjoyment for everyone’s taste and eyes is guaranteed.  

​One of these shows will be presented by Paolo Nani Teater from Denmark, one of the most prominent mimes in the world. The unique masterly mime, precise and humorous body language, extraordinary acting and sense of timing are what characterize Nani's style of performance and his show THE LETTER.

Kotor Festival of Theatre for Children will celebrate its 25th jubilee edition – a quarter of a century of its existence. Main Theatre Program, which will be held from July 1 – 12, 2017, will be the richest so far. The audience will have an opportunity to see and enjoy twenty professional performances of various genres for both children and youth.

Our guests from Ukraine – Kyiv Municipal Puppet Theater prepared a new delightful adaptation of Rudyard Kipling's story of How the elephant got his trunk. The theatrical adaptation by director Mykhailo Uryskyi and the creative scenery and African styled outfits by set designer Mykola Danko give a fresh, vibrant look to this classic story.  The performance settles down to focus on the Elephant’s Child with a "satiable curiosity" about everything that he sees, hears, feels, smells, or touches. Such curiosity opens up new ideas, knowledge, and abilities, even though everyone tells him to stop, with a spanking each time.

​Kotor Festival of Theatre for Children will celebrate its 25th jubilee edition – a quarter of a century of its existence. Main Theatre Program, which will be held from July 1 – 12, 2017, will be the richest so far. The audience will have an opportunity to see and enjoy twenty professional performances of various genres for both children and youth.

​Italian troupes Factory Company Transadriatica from Lecce and TIR Danza from Modena interpreted in an interesting way the well-known story by H.C. Andersen – An Ugly Duckling. The performance The Diary of an Ugly Duckling, by combining theater and dance with a simple, evocative narrative from the classic fairy tale by H.C. Andersen, investigates diversity, identity, and integration. 

​Kotor Festival of Theatre for Children will celebrate its 25th jubilee edition – a quarter of a century of its existence. Main Theatre Program, which will be held from July 1 – 12, 2017, will be the richest so far. The audience will have an opportunity to see and enjoy twenty professional performances of various genres for both children and youth.

​For our youngest audience, aged from 18 months to 5 years, Benoît Sicat, a French visual artist, will perform an interactive show called The Garden of Possible. Using creativity and play as principles for the exploration of the world and for self-construction, as well as utilizing primitive and always contemporary materials - wood, pebbles, leaves, terracotta, objects that will outlive us, the author creates this interactive show. There is no dramaturgy, no pedagogy, no morality, no judgment, no hierarchy. However, there is this mirror, as in any spectacle. Right here, children and adults are on the same plateau, a common territory. We build the city together. No soundtrack, no lyrics. The only rule that imposes itself on all of us is to do as much as possible with as little as possible.