MINI SUMMER IN LJUBLJANA

19th MINI TEATER'S INTERNATIONAL FESTIVAL FOR CHILDREN

Mini teater doesn't rest during the summer! This year we organise already the 19th Mini teater’s International Festival for Children. Two unforgettable months of excellent performances and workshops in Mini teater on Križevniška 1!

The price for the performances at the festival Mini Summer is 3€, workshops are free of charge.

PERFORMANCES

OPENING OF THE FESTIVAL MINI SUMMER

THURSDAY, 22. 6. 2017, AT 18.00

LOCATION: KRIŽEVNIŠKA ULICA

SPHERE, street performance

Author and performer: Andrej Tomše
Steet performance: 2+
Duration: 25'

A man with a chrystal sphere, a hat, and a walkin stick. He look familiar but you surely haven't seen anything alike. He doesn't speek but you'll understand him. His juggling is magical, his interaction with the audience is playful and witty. He eats bannanas and sometimes he offers them to the audience. He reminds us of a skilful clown. Someone once said that his performance is like a tender magic. Appropriate for people of any age.
After the performance the playful juggler will have a workshop for children.

 

SATURDAY, 1. 7. 2017, AT 11.00

LOCATION: KRIŽEVNIŠKA 1,HALL BERNARD-MARIE KOLTÈS

SVETLANA MAKAROVIČ'S FAMOUS STORY WITH PUPPETS

THE MISHMASH BAKERY, puppet performance

Author: Svetlana Makarovič

Directed by: Robert Waltl

Cast: Vesna Vončina/Violeta Tomič, Tadej Pišek, Jose

Scene and puppets: Robert Smolík

Music: Uroš Rakovec

Language: Slovene

Puppet performance: 3+

Duration: 50'

Production: Mini teater

Do you know how the good baker Mishmash bakes his bread and what is the secret of his bakery, known in all the nearby villages? The famous story of the Slovene writer Svetlana Makarovič comes to live in another successful puppet performance in Mini teater. This is story about the goodness of the modest baker Mishmash who offered bread to the poor and to children for free. It is also a story about the nosy and wicked woman Jedrt who is determined to disclose the secret on how Mishmash manages to make the bread so good, and it is a story about the cat who gets tired of Jedrt taking advantage of him, so he decides to stay with Mishmash.

 

SUNDAY, 2. 7. 2017, AT 18.00

LOCATION: KRIŽEVNIŠKA 1, HALL BERNARD-MARIE KOLTÈS

JEŽEK'S UNFORGETTABLE FAIRYTALE FOR CHILDREN OF ALL AGES

LITTLE SLEEPY STAR, puppet performance

Author: Frane Milčinski – Ježek

Text adaptation: Zala Dobovšek

Directed by: Robert Waltl

Cast: Nina Ivanišin / Maruša Majer, Tadej Pišek, Igor Štamulak

Music: Miha Ciglar

Language: Slovene

Puppet performance: 3+

Duration: 45'

Production: Mini teater

There is a star in the skies that puts children to sleep, leads sailors over the seas and helps the poet find the right rhymes. She has golden long hair and is called Little Sleepy Star because she is often late for work and that causes confusion on Earth. This is why the Moon punishes her by sending her to the Earth where she finds herself amongst strangers. The road leads her by the fair, into the city, and to the bandit Ceferin who has a stone in place of the heart. When Cerefin finds out that the girl has golden hair he wants to steal it from her. But the sincere goodness of Little Sleepy Star turns his stone to a beating heart. And then the Moon lets Little Sleepy Star return to the skies. This is a fairytale with a universal message – we can overcome evil with kindness and goodness, pure thought and love.

 

SATURDAY, 8. 7. 2017, AT 11.00

LOCATION: KRIŽEVNIŠKA 1,HALL BERNARD-MARIE KOLTÈS

WE ARE RESPONSIBLE FOR OUR OWN HAPPINESS

SAPRAMOUSE'S LUCK, SAPRAMOUSE 2, theatre performance

Author: Svetlana Makarovič

Directed by: Robert Waltl

Cast: Vesna Zornik, Violeta Tomič, Tadej Pišek

Music: Mitja Vrhovnik Smrekar, Svetlana Makarovič

Language: Slovene

Theatre performance: 2+

Duration: 35'

Production: Mini teater

The well known Sapramouse is looking for luck this time. Sapramouse doesn’t want to listen to her friends’ who advise her to mend her shabby little house before the winter comes. Arrogantly she ignores them, but when the snow blizzard tears down her house, she becomes so pessimistic that she wants to die. She is so unkind to the friends that offer to help that they go away, only Froggy the frog remains and who reveals to Sapramouse the wisdom of how to find her lost luck. Sapramouse realizes that it is good to have friends and that this is the true happiness and that good deeds, kindness and hospitality are repaid with goodness.

 

SUNDAY, 9. 7. 2017, AT 18.00

LOCATION: KRIŽEVNIŠKA 1, HALL BERNARD-MARIE KOLTÈS

EDUCATIONAL AND AMUSING

THE POOP BOOK (Story about poops)

Author: Pernilla Stalfelt

Directed by: Ivica Buljan

Cast: Jose, Petja Golec Horvat

Music: Jose

Language: Slovene

Theatre performance: 2+

Duration: 35'

Production: Mini teater

A charming Swedish story about by Pernilla Stalfelt finally in Slovenian theatre for children! The story funnily and humorously and with no hesitation or taboos explains the subject that incredibly interests and amuses children. Dr. Poop and his assistant take us through the Poop's adventures handling the subject of poop and pooping very thoroughly and with limitless humour. They observe its shape, and compare its structure and colour, and they remind us what happens when we have diarrhoea or constipation.  Together with children they discover different names for different kinds of poop. They also teach children that poop can be a very useful fertilizer and that in Africa people even use pooh to build houses!

 

SATURDAY, 19. 8. 2017, AT 11.00

LOCATION: KRIŽEVNIŠKA 1, HALL BERNARD-MARIE KOLTÈS

GUEST PERFORMANCE BY BUCHTY A LOUTKY FROM PRAGUE

GOLDEN GOOSE, puppet performance

Author: Jacob Grimm, Wilhelm Grimm

Adapted and directed by: Marek Bečka, Buchty a loutky

Cast: Zuzana Bruknerová, Kristina Maděričová, Marek Bečka, Radek Beran, Vít Brukner, Tomáš Procházka in Lukáš Valiska

Scene: Robert Smolík, Adam Gottlieb, Jaromír Gottlieb

Puppets: Štěpán Pěnka, Radka Mizerová

Music: Tomáš Procházka

Language: Czech

Puppet performance: 4+

Duration: 45'

Production: Buchty a loutky

Oh, that golden goose, so shiny and so precious, lures everyone and glues them. Only the youngest of three brothers, considered silly by everyone, goes on to take it to the princess because he likes her and wants to make her laugh. He would even be willing to marry her.
In short, greed doesn’t pay off, sadness is a bad advisor and even the last and mocked can become a king in the end. Don’t miss the happy end.

 

SUNDAY, 20. 8. 2017, AT 18.00

LOCATION: KRIŽEVNIŠKA 1, HALL BERNARD-MARIE KOLTÈS

GUEST PERFORMANCE BY BUCHTY A LOUTKY FROM PRAGUE

DON ŠAJN, puppet performance

Adapted and directed by: Vít Brukner

Cast: Vít Brukner, Marek Bečka, Radek Beran, Lukáš Valiska

Scene and puppets: Buchty a loutky, Bára Čechová

Music: Buchty a loutky

Language: Czech

Puppet performance: 14+

Duration: 60'

Production: Buchty a loutky

The age-old story of Don Juan, played by giant puppets. Love, passion, kingdom of death! If Don Lorenzo refuses me the hand of my beloved Donna Anna, that hour will indeed be ill-fated for me, so …

 

SATURDAY, 26. 8. 2017, AT 11.00

LOCATION: KRIŽEVNIŠKA 1, HALL BERNARD-MARIE KOLTÈS

MINI TEATER'S NEW PERFORMANCE

ALL HERE, ALL TOGETHER, puppet performance

Author: Mirna Rustemović

Directed by: Robert Waltl

Cast: Maruša Majer, Vesna Vončina, Tadej Pišek, Andrei Lenart

Scene and puppets: Milica Grbić Komazec, Nikola Komazec

Music: Zvezdana Novakovič

Language: Slovene

Puppet performance: 3+

Duration: 60'

Production: Mini teater

Daddy is big and strong and he can do anything, even magic! But, look, he’s afraid of foreigners! His daughter finds this odd, so she comes up with an idea to help her smart daddy conquer fear of foreigners. Perhaps her Tanzanian friend’s birthday is a great opportunity? What do we know about children’s lives in Syria, Iraq, Afghanistan …? Are parents and teachers really afraid of children? We should get to know new cultures, not reject them. Rejection only reflects our ignorance and xenophobia. Fear of the different only paralyses us, meeting and accepting our differences makes us richer.

 

SUNDAY, 27. 8. 2017, AT 18.00

LOCATION: KRIŽEVNIŠKA 1, HALL BERNARD-MARIE KOLTÈS

GUEST PERFORMANCE BY THE CITY THEATRE FORM PODGORICA

MEET AT THE ARK AT EIGHT, theatre performance

Author: Urlich Hub

Directed by: Robert Waltl

Cast: Slaviša Grubiša, Smiljana Martinović, Goran Slavić, Branko Ilić, Sejfo Seferović

Music: Nemanja Bečanović

Language: Serbian

Theatre performance: 5+

Duration: 60'

Production: Gradsko pozorište Podgorica

A humorous, yet provocative handling of a well-known biblical story by Ulrich Hub. Our story starts just before the flood myth. The news of a great flood destroying the world reaches two surprised penguins. Like with all the other animals only two of them can embark on Noah's Ark, yet they decide to sneak in their friend, a third penguin hidden in a suitcase. An adventure follows and the penguins try to cover the fare dodger! This creative twist of the classical biblical story encourages the audience to ask themselves about God, life and death, good and evil, friendship, solidarity, and about right and wrong.

WORKSHOPS

SUNDAY, 25. 6. 2017, AT 18.00

LOCATION: KRIŽEVNIŠKA ULICA

MINI SUMMER WORKSHOPS WITH THE ASSOCIATION SEZAM

REGA REGA KVAK

Our skilful hands will make a special frog that will jump and hop and amuse us. How high will it jump? It depends on us.

 

SUNDAY, 16. 7. 2017, AT 18.00

LOCATION: KRIŽEVNIŠKA ULICA

BRENČAČI

We will make various bugs like beetles, bees, dragonflies, and all will fly in their own special way. They will also jump roll down the street, over some flowers and perhaps even over us.

 

SUNDAY, 23. 7. 2017, AT 18.00

LOCATION: KRIŽEVNIŠKA ULICA

PAJKOVA MREŽA

Everyone gets caught in a spider’s net from time to time. But this time, we will make a net ourselves and we will try to catch someone else in it. We will also make special little spiders that will jump around and have fun in our net.

 

SUNDAY, 30. 7. 2017, AT 18.00

LOCATION: KRIŽEVNIŠKA ULICA

MOJ PRIJATELJ KUŽA

What would happen, if we had a puppy that would do everything we told him? We will first read a story and then we will make a puppy puppet that will come to live in our hands. And this is not all! For everyone who likes to play, we will prepare a competing game of finding as much as possible puppy poops hidden in the street. Woof, woof, we’re looking forward to it!

 

SUNDAY, 6. 8. 2017, AT 18.00

LOCATION: KRIŽEVNIŠKA ULICA

RIBJA ZABAVA

We will make colourful fishes, big and small, friendly and scary. Then we will try to catch them like real fishermen. Let the fishing party start!

 

SUNDAY, 13. 8. 2017, AT 18.00

LOCATION: KRIŽEVNIŠKA ULICA

LAHKO LETIM?

We will read a special story and we will talk about birds that we know. We will make masks and with them, we will transform onto birds. We will also try, if we can fly.