Lithuania
- Age 5 +
- Duration – 45 min
- Location – The Chamber Theater
Author and director – Zvi Sahar, „PuppetCinema“
Scenographer, assistant director and co-author – Ausra Bakanaite
Puppet author Ausra Bakanaite, „Marbeyad Studio“
Music author – Kobe Shmueli
Light designer – Scahar Peggy Montlake, Paulius Vendelis
Puppeteers and co-authors – Monika Mikalauskaite-Bauziene, Vytautas Kairys, Kestutis Bruckus
Starring – Renata Kutaite-Raudoniene, Vytautas Kairys, Kestutis Bruckus
Producers – Klaipeda Puppet Theatre, „Itim Ensemble“
Premiere: 17th of September, 2020.
Performance „The Big Bang“
A co-production of Klaipeda Puppet Theatre and Itim Ensemble (Israel). Lithuanian viewers have already had the opportunity to get acquainted with Zvi Sahar’s works at the International Puppet Theatre Festival Materia Magica in 2019, where the PuppetCinema troupe performed their play “Planet Egg”, which Zvi Sahar both directed and starred in. His creative mission is the synergy between puppet theatre and cinema: miniature puppets are filmed during their performances and the image is projected directly onto the screen.
The “Big Bang” world is created with the help of various details of electronic devices. This performance could be treated as prehistory for the play “Planet Egg”, bringing the audience to the beginning of beginnings when everything was formed by the Big Bang. The universe hosts many planets, in one of which we observe the life of a small robot and their dog living inside the thriving world of society, cities and cultures, one day faced with danger – rain. Is the water going to destroy the world of metal and various electronic appliances? What of the robot and their dog during this tragedy of climate change? This is the time for humanity to question not only how life came into being, but also how it’s going to end.
Klaipeda Puppet Theatre
The puppeteers started their venture back in 1991, at the Department of Directing, Faculty of Arts, Klaipeda University. By the start of 1992, theycalled themselves the Klaipeda University Puppet Theatre KU-KU. The troupe was founded by Jurate Januskeviciute and her collaborators: KU department of directing teachers Linas Zube, Liuda Vismantaite and Salomeja Burneikaite, later joined by their apprentice puppeteers Vidmantas Berzinis, Lina Berziniene, Zivile Dargyte and Andzela Vitauskaite. The second stage of the theatre began in 2004, after the youngest line of puppeteers graduated directing for the puppet theatre and introduced themselves to the city of Klaipeda. The Lithuanian Ministry of Culture granted Klaipeda Puppet Theatre the status of a professional theatre in 2006.
Today, one of the youngest and most promising independent puppet theatres in Lithuania is constantly on the look out for new ways to convey the artistic language.
The Klaipeda Puppet Theatre is modern, high-quality, inclusive and of interest not only for children but also adults. Here, performances using dolls and objects for babies, children, young people and everyone else run every weekend. The repertoire includes interpretations of well-known fairy tales, as well as works by contemporary foreign and Lithuanian authors, presented in traditional and non-traditional forms of both puppet and object theatre.Since 2009, Klaipeda Puppet Theatre has been a member of the Lithuanian Association of Theatres for Children and Youth “Asitežas”, the theatre employees are members of the International Puppet Union UNIMA.
