Text after J. and W. Grimm: Jan Grabowski and Nina Skrbinšek
Director: Robert Waltl
Set and puppet design: Daniel Demšar
Music and corepetitions: Peter Kus
Puppet technology: Jože Zajec
Puppets and set made by: Jože Zajec, Ron Preinfalk and co-workers
Musicians: Andrej Žibert (drums, electric/acoustic guitar, bas guitar), Jernej Pečak (bas), Drago Kunej (diatonic accordeon), Peter Kus (clarinet, piano, organ, elektronics, vocal)
Actors: Milan Štefe, Tomaž Pipan, Nina Skrbinšek / alternation Vesna Lubej
Puppet performance for children from 3 years up.
Duration: 45 minutes
Opening performance: 2001
Festivals and tours: Austria, Italy, Slovenia
This performance was created after a very known Grimm's fairy tale: The Wolf and the Seven Goatlings. The cahallenge for it was found in the always actual topics about children staying home alone and the dangers stalking on them. It is the first performance directed by Robert Waltl, a graduate of the Ljubljana Academy for Performing Arts, who used to be actor at the Ljubljana Puppet Theatre. He is the founder and director of the theatre Mini teater on the Ljubljana Castle. He is also successful as organiser of numerous events for children all over Slovenia.The puppet and set design were performed by Daniel Demšar who is a successful set/costume/puppet designer in all prominent Slovene puppet theatres. He is the author of numerous human, animal and fictitious creatures that usually upgrade the messages of different puppet performances. The music is based on ethnic motives; it was arranged in a modern composition by Peter Kus, a student of philosophy and social cultures at the Ljubljana University. He is a composer who performed music composition for numerous dance and children performances as well as for silent films; he used to be the leader of the sextet Pavel Vlasov and he is still member of the ethno group Tolovaj Mataj.
THE STORY: Mother Goat is a single parent who has to bring up her goatlings all by herself. In spite of the dangers she has to go out of the woods and fetch some food. She warns the children to beware from the Wolf, who, however, is clever enough to play a trick on them. When they open the door he shoves them all in a sack and runs away with them. The neighbors - the Duck Ignatius and his wife Amalia - having witnessed what happened to the goatlings - tell everything to their mother and they also help her to find the Wolf and to rescue the goatlings.
