Poland
- Age – for families
- Duration: 45 min.The museum,
- Location – The museum, Kaunas State Puppet Theatre
Author – Vytautė Žilinskaitė (Lithuania)
Director and adaptation – Agnė Sunklodaitė (Lithuania)
Scenography – Giedrė Brazitė
Music – Antanas Jasenka
Video – Rimas Sakalauskas (Lithuania)
Performers – Izabela Maria Wilczewska, Błażej Piotrowski, Adam Zieleniecka
About the performance “Robot and the Butterfly”
“Robot and the Butterfly” is a presentation of permanent and deep feelings that can unite each of us, as well as very fragile and fleeting beauty, which worth seeing on time.
The performance was created on the basis of a history written by the Lithuanian author of Vytautė Žilinskaitė. It’s a story about the Robot who falls in love with a completely different world – in a butterfly. The mechanical hero discovers real feelings, such as love, empathy, attachment, but also fear, and regret …
The performance is made through an interactive communication with the audience. Actors invite children to direct participation in the adventures of a robot and his friends.
Bialystok Puppet Theatre (BTL – Białostocki Teatr Lalek)
Bialystok Puppet Theatre has been active since 1953, when a group of puppeteers, was granted a state subsidy. Since then, the theatre – being a professional stage – has been in operation continuously, producing between 3 and 6 new performances every theatre season, using various puppet techniques as well as different forms of visual theatre, object theatre, mask theatre and drama theatre.
Bialystok Puppet Theatre is one of the oldest Polish puppet stages to present a puppetry repertoire for adults. Since 1972 it has regularly included works of the world’s grand literary authors on its playbill, among them Boccaccio, Calderon, Rostand, Gogol).
The Theatre is also the organizer of The International Festival of Puppet Theatres for Adults PUPPETS’ METAMORPHOSES.
