Agenda app
30 Jun / 18:00 / Adventure Park stage / Puppet show

Cast: Jose,Tomislav Tomšič
Direction and adaptation: Marek Bečka
Music: Vit Brukner, Jose
Visual concept: Robert Smolik
Language supervisor: Mateja Dermelj
Light and sound design:  Nace Hočevar, Marko Levičnik

Production: Mini teater, Ljubljana

Once upon a time there was a miller, who had three sons.When the miller on died bed, gave the mill to his eldest son and a donkey to his second son. They could live happliy. But the youngest son had to accept father's cat, Puss. The youngest son was thought about how to manage with this cat.Puss is clever. It wore a pair of boots and got a bag with lettuce, went to field and caught a rabbit.Straight went to the palace and presented to the king. Saying-"This present is from my master, Marquis of Carrabas." Also, Puss said to his master to believe that his name is Marquis of Carrabas.

Next day the king and his daughter rode by the river miller's son was swimming there. Puss appeared before the king and said his master's clothes have stawllen by thieves and help to him. As the miller's son wore royal clothes looks handsomely. Puss quickly went on ahead paddy field and said to farmer's that the field belongs to the Marquis of Carrabas. Soon the king rode by paddy field asked, who belongs to the field, Marquis of Carrabas said the farmers. Meanwhile, Puss went to meet Marquis of Carrabas, very good magician and ogre. When the magician show becoming a lion, Puss frightened and requested to be show a rat, Ogre became a rat. Puss instantly pounced on its and ate up. How ever, the king impressed with handsome young man, lived in such a magnificent castle. The king liked to give marriaging his daughter to the miller's son, Marquis of Carrabas.  So,the miller,s son and the princess and Puss lived happily ever after.

Marek Bečka was born in 1964 in Plzen. He graduated at the Theatre Academy in Prague (DAMU). In his rich career he acted at the DRAK Theatre in Hradec Kralowe, and later as a freelance artist, he created a number of street performances and puppet performances for the youngest spectators. In 1991, he founded the Theatre Bouchty a loutky (Doughnuts and Puppets) where in the last thirteen years he created more than 25 performances. Some of them are well known also to the Slovene public since they took part in several summer festivals for children Puppets, Mini Summer  in Ljubljana, Puppet Port  in Maribor, and Festival Estivo del Litorale in Izola. Marek Bečka works as a university teacher at the Prague University of Performing Arts DAMU; he was a tutor to Matija Solce, a prominent Slovene puppeteer. Marek Bečka works also with different other puppet theatres in the Czech Republic. The project Puss in Boots will be dedicated to our youngest audience. It belongs to the part of MINI TEATER Program reaching for known literary texts that serve as ground-works in the research of puppet performances or this media in general.

Duration: 40 minutes


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