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IVO VIZIN – The Captain of Dreams

City Theatre Podgorica (Montenegro)
Kotor Festival of Theatre for Children (Montenegro)
Nikola Đurković Cultural Centre (Montenegro)
Duration: 80 min. | Age: 12+
*revue program
Written by: Jelena Lela Milošević 
Directed by: Zoran Rakočević 
Dramaturgy: Dragana Tripković
Costume design: Dragica Laušević
Composer: Nemanja Bečanović
Choreography: Slavka Nelević
Light design: Zoran Rakočević, Slavka Nelević
Photography: Duško Miljanić
Promo materials design: Srđa Dragović
Cast: Vule Marković, Jelena Simić, Sanja Popović, Pavle Popović, Goran Slavić, Miloš Pejović, Branka Femić Šćekić, Pavle Ilić
What is a hero? How do you measure their heroism? What do they look like? Are they tall, strong, with a booming voice? Do they eat spinach? Do they bathe every day in a barrel full of magic potions? Do they always hit the center of the target? Do they steal the golden fleece from gods?
My hero is Ivo Vizin, a boy born in Boka two centuries ago. His dream to circumnavigate the world coming true is just a consequence of his heroism. When he was twelve, he became great. How did he do that? Very easily. He didn’t forget family values even in the hardest moments of his impoverished childhood. Barefoot, so what? Heroes don’t need shoes. They can have holes on elbows and knees. A torn shirt is not a big deal, if you have a heart. Empty pockets are perfectly fine if you have a soul full as a pomegranate. A hero, therefore, can be many different things, but must be kind-hearted. Don’t forget to kiss your mother each morning, play with your younger siblings,  split your sandwich with a friend, help a granny cross the street, water plants in your garden, look after a park bench, feed a bird, help all of those who need help. That is the only way to stay remembered.

Zoran Rakočević

​MUSEUM OF DANCE 

STANICA - service for contemporary dance (Serbia)
Duration: 30 min. | Age: 3 – 7
 
Concept: Kliment Poposki, Elena Risteska, Viktorija Ilioska
Mentor: Dalija Aćin Thelander
Development and adaptation: Jovana Rakić, Marko Milić, Milica Pisić, Milena Todorović
Technical support and light design: Milan Janevski, Boris Butorac, PVC Teatar
Video: Marko Pejović
Audio: Miki Todorović
Voice: Jovana Rakić
Cast: Jovana Rakić, Marko Milić, Milica Pisić, Milena Todorović
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Museum of Dance is a participatory, interactive play that takes place within a spatial installation inspired by history of dance and choreography. The installation, which represents a museum at a small scale, consists of different rooms where each of them offers a different approach to reflections on dance. In each of the rooms, children in a special way encounter dance and choreography and have a possibility to individually and within a group create, observe or talk about dance. In addition to its educational character, the installation and performers interact with the audience differently than in typical drama and dance performances since children have the opportunity to enter and explore spaces created by artists gathered around the Museum of Dance project. The installation was created as a part of regional project for development of dance theatre for children and youth Generator, implemented in 2015.

Museum of Dance team

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​THE TOWN MUSICIANS OF BREMEN 

Cizgi Kukla Theatre (Turkey)
Duration:  40 min. | Age: 4+
*revue program

Written by: The Grimm Brothers 
Directed by: Abdullah Gun
Dramaturgy: Burhan Gun
Cast: Abdullah Gun, Hasan Gundoğdu, Barış Açıkgöz, Ertunç Alıcı, Merve Eren, Hakan Gun
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A well-known tale by the Grimm Brothers gets a new face in this version by using a special technique of black light. This puppet show will offer children a chance to think about a concept of freedom, through adventures of four animals – a donkey, a dog, a cat and a rooster, who have to leave their homes. The donkey, dog, cat and rooster will help children realize how to fight for a free life. The original technique that characterizes this play, and its characters, gives you a feeling of watching a cartoon playing out right here in front of you.
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Burhan Gun

THE LITTLE PIRATE

City Theatre Podgorica (Montenegro)
Cultural Centre Tivat (Montenegro)
Duration: 85 min. | Age: 8+
Written by: Ante Staničić
Directed by: Milan Karadžić
Dramatization: Aleksandra Glovacki
Choreography: Nebojša Gromilić
Composer: Irena Popović
Costume design: Dragica Laušević
Set design: Boris Maksimović
Dramaturgy: Dubravka Drakić
Language editor: Neven Staničić
Songs: Dubravka Drakić, Neven Staničić
Light design: Radomir Stanmenković
Assistant composer: Aleksandar Zavišin
Photography: Duško Miljanić
Promo materials design: Ivan Radulović
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Cast: Pavle Popović, Goran Slavić, Miloš Kaščelan, Jelena Đukić, Miloš Pejović, Marija Maša Labudović,  Dubravka Drakić, Pavle Ilić, Sanja Popović, Branko Ilić, Marija Đurić, Jelena Simić, Katarina Krek, Branka Femić Šćekić, Omar Bajramspahić, Ivan Kašćelan, Vladana Mišević, Mia Kuč, Dušica Rovčanin, Stefanija Brčić, Đorđa Čolo, Borjana Obrenović, Jelena Knežević, Aleksa Balević, Filip Petrović, Antonio Grgurović, Nikola Mrvaljević, Mirko Ognjanović

A novel by Ante Staničić The Little Pirate marked a time and space that we remember fondly and get back to them gladly, through various projects. It was particularly inspirational to go back to Tivat after many years, wishing to do a play that will be watched and performed also gladly.
The Little Pirate play is an homage to fine comics, adventurous scenes and lucid film directors, on the one hand, and on the other, facing our little hometowns and its inhabitants, not as kind-hearted as our heroes, the rare ones, who have the courage to be different and to be themselves. Our story puts wind in the sails of those who carry this grain of courage.
 
Milan Karadžić

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​LULLA

Dybwikdans (Norway)
Duration:  30 min. | Age: 0 – 18 months
 
Concept: Siri Dybwik 
Composer: Nils Christian Fossdal 
Set design: Kit Bjørn Petersen 
Music: Andreas Utnem, Bergmund Waal Skaslien 
Costume design: Britt Stigen Martinsen, Kari Helene Gryte 
Designer/Technician: Karl Oskar Sørdal 
Supervisor: Thomas Cabaniss 
Photography: Tale Hendnes
Cast: Gerd Elin Aase, Nils Christian Fossdal
Lulla presents a world of song, movement and music, and shows us lullabies in new and traditional forms. Lulla is a musical encounter that is open to participation of children and adults, on their own terms. Lulla does not tell a precise story; instead, it uses nursery rhymes to invite physical and musical interaction with the audience, and makes presence, listening and play vital elements in the encounter. Lulla explores an expression that arises in its entirety in the stage space where the artists, the children and the adults constitute the artistic and social totality. An open and inviting form, characterized by sound and movement, has the goal to achieve dialogue and interaction with children.
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Siri Dybwik 

EPIC GAMES: BUILDING OF SKADAR

Art troupe Hop.La! (Serbia)
Bitef Theatre (Serbia)
Duration: 60 min. | Age: 10+
 
Dramatization of epic poem and direction by: Anđelka Nikolić
Dramaturgy: Olga Dimitrijević
Cast: Anita Stojadinović, Đorđe Živadinović Grgur
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How many worker’s wages did Mrnjavčević brothers pay out in three years of construction? Is a woman a material? How old will little Jovo be when the trial to his mother’s murderers is finished? Do you believe in fairies? The play Epic Games is based on a poem Building of Skadar, which is a part of literature curriculum for 5th grade of elementary school, and is connected with the coursework of technical education, math and civic education. Lower age limit is 10 years, while no upper limit truly exist, since the topic addressed in the poem is relevant for adult viewers too. The play has an interactive character: certain parts transform into a dialogue with the audience about themes from the poem, which vary depending on the age and other characteristics of the auditorium.
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Anđelka Nikolić ​

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MONSTERS

Duda Paiva Company (Netherlands)
Korzo Theater (Netherlands)
Duration: 60 min. | Age: 6+
 
Concept and direction: Duda Paiva
Dramaturgy: Kim Kooiman
Puppets: Duda Paiva, Justyna Banasiak, André Mello, Tim Velraeds
Sound: Wilco Alkema
Light: Mark Verhoef
Decor: Daniel Patijn
Costume: Atty Kingma
Advice: Harriet Stroet
Repetition: Ederson Xavier
Production: Marijana Mikolcic
Performers: Josse Vessies, Cat Smits, Tim Velraeds
Monsters balance extremely finely on the borderline between completely real and obviously fake. What strange creatures the puppets of Duda Paiva are! They have funny heads. They have wings and tails but also arms and legs… what are they? Animals, humans, or both? And they look so sweet and touchable… but are they? Luckily, Narcissus controls the Monsters and he is showing his audience all the tricks he taught them: somersaults, dances, songs and even how to fly! But, Monsters hate to do these tricks. That’s why they rise up against him and prompting the audience to ask themselves; who is the real beast here? One thing is clear in this continuously changing slapstick performance: what you see is not what you get.
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Kim Kooiman

2062

Karla Kracht & Andrés Beladiez (Spain)
Duration: 55 min. | Age: 12+
 
Idea and concept: Karla Kracht, Andrés Beladiez
Dramaturgy: Andrés Beladiez
Set design: Karla Kracht
Camera and animation: Karla Kracht
Sound design: Andrés Beladiez
Multimedia programing: Karla Kracht, Andrés Beladiez
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Supported by AC/E, Acción Cultural Española - Programme for the Internationalisation of Spanish Culture (PICE)
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2062 is a multi-disciplinary show encompassing and interweaving scenic, multimedia, comic, illustration, and animation techniques, as well as shadow and object theatre, aimed at creating a scenic and cinematographic live show. With these ingredients, a dystopian world is created, a world in which we encounter borders, walls, new migrations, and the latest geopolitical and economic changes. The world will never be the same again... Borders will turn red again or disappear completely. They will become less accessible. New walls will be built and old ideals will be buried. Wars will be different, but killing at ideologist gunpoint will continue. Capitalism, facing virtually no opposition, will extend to the whole terrestrial world. Governments will concede their power to large corporations. New migrations will antagonize Europe, which will try to preserve its hegemony. Citizens will be searching for their identities in shopping carts. The 21st century has arrived and changed us forever, but we have hardly realized it. Somehow, everything continues to be the same.
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Karla Kracht, Andrés Beladiez

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MAKE-BELIEVE - A Lecture on substitutes  

Kotor Festival of Theatre for Children; Nikola Đurković Cultural Centre; Drama studio Prazan prostor (Montenegro)
Duration: 45 min.| Age: 8+
*revue program
 
Direction and visual identity: Mirko Radonjić
Composer: Nina Perović 
Assistant director: Marija Backović 
Cast: Mirko Radonjić, Marija Backović, Nina Perović
Make-believe – A Lecture on substitutes is a lecture-performance intended for children and youth, and is based on motifs from an animated film The Substitute by Dušan Vukotić. The film from 1961 is a satirical comment on the social moment of the time. However, today, when direct experiences have vanished from our lives and the substitutes have become a norm for everything but breathing, it appears to be devastatingly current.. With our heads deep in social media, we have never been lonelier. Grasping the world and accepting it as normal is hard, but changing it is impossible, since that would mean: going against history. Still, alternative must be found, and we are looking for it. Vukotić’s film is a basis and inspiration for a multimedia and interactive performance which speaks about ideas, loneliness, emotions and imagination. Using performance and theatre means, we insist on sensory and tangible experiences and we convey the idea of creation as the ultimate substitute (ironically) which brings salvation from the substitute itself.
 
Mirko Radonjić

CAN’T PLEASE THE WHOLE WORLD

Zadar Puppet Theater (Croatia)
Duration: 45 min. | Age: 5+
 
Directed by: Ana Prolić
Assistent director: Juraj Aras
Scenic play associate: Damir Klemenić
Music and songs lyrics: Mate Matišić
Visual identity: Sanja Mrša Vukman
Costume design: Anita Goreta
Light design:    Frane Papić
Sound design: Mate Petričević
Set design: Robert Košta
Show manager: Radojka Kozulić
Set manager: Robert Košta
Costume maker: Nataša Perović
Light & sound technician: Marin Bakmaz
Photography: Iva Perinčić
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Cast: Juraj Aras, Sanja Zalović, Dominik Karakašić, Irena Bausović, Anđela Ćurković Petković, Tamara Šoletić, Radojka Kozulić, Robert Košta

Based on the motifs from a popular story, Can’t Please the Whole World  speaks about a desire to please people around us, and then the whole world, in order to get their affection, confirmation of righteousness, and create the feeling of acceptance, which leads to suppression and abandonment of our own desires and opinions, and finally even our own personalities. In this time, where we are attacked by aggressive regulations from all over– about how to look, how to behave, how to think, spend time, which brand of yogurt to take – that we tend to meet in order to – by others’ parameters – achieve ourselves, be successful and happy, within the required shape and pattern and tapped on the shoulder, it is important to remind ourselves to which extent we deny ourselves. Since after all, whatever we do, we can’t please the whole world. 
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Ana Prolić

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KURT, QUO VADIS?

Boško Buha Theatre (Serbia)
Duration: 60 min. | Age: 5+
 
Written by: Erlend Loe
Directed by: Jana Mariči
Dramaturgy: Milena Depolo
Set design: Veljko Stojanović  
Costume design: Snežana Veljković
Composer: Božidar Obradinović
Choreography: Maja Kalafatić
Scenic speech: Dijana Marojević 
Cast: Stefan Bundalo, Aleksandar Milković, Teodora Ristovski, Miloš Vlalukin, Jelena Trkulja
Erlend Loe, a prominent Norwegian contemporary author, and one of favourite writers to the local readership, wrote a series of children’s books whose protagonist is Kurt, forklift truck driver. In this story, as a result of being a part of high society, Kurt started losing his self-confidence and together with his little son started searching for a great deed that will help him become important in his surroundings. While we were working on this play, we didn’t want to be some smart grownups who will teach you something. After all, children are very often much smarter than us, just like our Bud is, who is only several years old and is smarter than his dad Kurt. We wanted to tell a story to children and share with them our thoughts, concerns and feelings that came to life while we were hanging out with Erlend Loe and his protagonist Kurt.
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Milena Depolo

Feral

Theatre Tortoise in a Nutshell (UK – Scotland)
Cumbernauld Theatre (UK – Scotland)
Duration: 55 min. | Age: 12+
 
Directed by: Ross MacKay
Set design: Amelia Bird
Light design: Simon
Photography: Amy Downes
Cast: Arran Howie, Ross MacKay, Alex Bird, Jim Harbourne, Matthew Leonard
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An innovative performance combining puppetry, object manipulation, immersive soundscapes and multimedia technology, Feral holds a community under the microscope and dissects it in front of its audience’s eyes. Joe looks back at the home of his childhood and traces its journey from idyllic seaside town to community gripped by anarchy. A cross art form piece, Feral, seamlessly blends film and live performance. Puppeteers manipulate and bring to life a tiny world, whilst simultaneously creating a live animation, as they follow its every breath via digital camera.
 
Tortoise in a Nutshell

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NIYAR – A PAPER TALE

Maayan Lungman (Germany)
Duration: 45 min. | Age: 5+
 
Concept and direction: Maayan Lungman
Technician and puppet manipulator: Philipp Rückriem
Light design: Anna Lienert
Music and sound design: Thomas Moked
Cello: Illay Chester
Technical support: Nir Ladany
Mechanism design: Tal Iungman, Ariane Bothe
Costume design: Chantal Kirch
Set design: Nimrod Erez
Assistant: Karen Davidoff
Cast : Maayan Lungman, Philipp Rückriem
NIYAR – A Paper Tale is an object & puppet theatre show made completely out of paper. A frustrated artist is sitting in front of a mountain of crumpled paper. With each idea that is being thrown aside, the pile gets bigger. In the midst of this creative crisis - life suddenly begins. A paper figure appears and takes the artist on a poetic journey. Karolina Augustyniak (theatre magazine Dziennik Teatralny) describes Niyar as a great show of free imagination, like a material shaped with child's enthusiasm. This unique show is expressed without any words and is a symbolic story of meeting and separation, almost as the purity of beauty - that inspires.
 
Maayan Iungman

Beauty and the Beast 

Youth Theater (Serbia)
Duration: 60 min.| Age: 6+

Written by: Stevan Koprivica
Directed by: Miloš Jagodić
Text adaptation: Nataša Ilić, Miloš Jagodić
Set design: Marija Kalabić
Costume design: mr Milica Grbić Komazec
Composer: Gabor Lenđel
Choreography: Olivera Kovačević Crnjanski, Frosina Dimovska, Ista Stepanov
Songs’ lyrics: Nataša Ilić
Co-repetition: dr Agota Vitkai Kučera
Scenic fights – swordplay: Dragan Stojmenović
Photography and video: Zoom media, Nenad Mihajlović
Promo materials design mr Jelena Đurić
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Cast: Kristina Savkov, Slobodan Ninković, Saša Stojković, Marina Cinkocki, Slavica Vučetić, Saša Latinović, Neda Danilović, Ivan Đurić, Aleksa Ilić, Danilo Milovanović
 
The play Beaty and the Beast by Stevan Koprivica is a multi-layered fairy tale for children and adults which tells us how dreams and power of love are much stronger compared to material values, which is why it is extremely current even today. A transformation that main characters go through shows us that nothing is as it seems on the surface and that true beauty can be discovered only if we truly deal with people. Universal morals, that true beauty is found in a person’s soul and heart, and not in their exterior appearance, that everybody must learn how to love and how to become worthy of someone else’s love, that true love exists and perseveres regardless of differences, render this fairy tale timeless.

Miloš Jagodić

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DREAM OF EMESE

Cakó Ferenc
Art’s Harmony Ensemble, (Hungary)
Duration: 60 min. | Age: 5+ 
*revue program
 
Idea, concept, and direction: Cakó Ferenc
Music: Art's Harmony Ensemble
Composer: Bartha Katalin
Cast:  Cakó Ferenc, Bartha Katalin, Bartha Péter, Lázár György, Nagy Ottó, Piukovics Gábor 
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DREAM OF EMESE is a live sand animation show by world acclaimed Hungarian artist and animation film director Cakó Ferenc. Accompanied by Art’s Harmony Ensemble and combining live music with Cakó's original sand animation, Dream of Emese takes us through the centuries of Hungarian history. Creating the sand paintings right in front of the audience's eyes, the artist tells the rich history of his people through the sequence of animations, while the musicians enrich the story with soulful and dynamic music. A unique artistic expression created by Cakó Ferenc, will provide the audience with an opportunity to enjoy lively-bustling, film-like running, impressive on-the-stage stream of sand animation inspired by music, happening live right in front of them.
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Bartha Katalin

THE EMPEROR’S NEW CLOTHES

Herceg Novi Theatre; Herceg Fest (Montenegro)
Duration: 80 min. | Age: 8+
*revue program
 
Written by: H. K. Andersen
Directed by: Petar Pejaković
Dramaturgy: Đorđe Stanojlović 
Set design: Vojislav Vojo Kilibarda
Costume design: Jelena Vasiljević
Cast: Dejan Đonović, Goran Slavić, Miloš Pejović, Slaviša Grubiša
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The Emperor’s New Clothes was tailored through games. We dreamed about making a show about politics for children. This Andersen’s fairy tale was written, as most of his tales, both for children and adults. He never thought that there were things only for grownups, and those only for children. He wrote for children about things for grownups. All the things for adults are also for children, including politics, the only issue is how to present them to children. The Emperor’s New Clothes therefore became a game with serious themes. The Emperor’s New Clothes don’t exist. The Emperor is nude. We all know that. We wanted to expose all these topics for adults: power, subjects, politics, elections, programs, democracy, despotism, revolution…to expose the functioning mechanism. Yes, these things are often scary, sometimes funny and mainly farcical, just like in Andersen’s tales. And just like his tales often don’t have a happy ending, they offer hope, invitations, solutions, but no resolution, that is up to us.
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Petar Pejaković
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