Translator:
Majda Potrata

Director:
Pavel Polak

Cast:
Peter Harl / Miha Rodman
Luka Cimprič
Vesna Vončina / Maruša Majer

Set designer:
Slavko Rakuša

Puppet design and manufacturing:
Jaroslav Milfajt

Stylist:
Iztok Šostarec

Music:
Vitezslav Hadl

Light and sound design:
Tilen Vipotnik

Language consultant:
Mateja Dermelj

Head technician:
Tilen Vipotnik

Technicians:
Tomaž Grubelnik
Tilen Vipotnik

Premiere:
30th June 2004, performance re-newed in 2009

Duration: 35 minutes

A theatre and puppet performance for children from 3 y/o

About the performance

A story of three little piglets and a greedy wolf, of fear and wise choices, of laziness and perseverance, and of good triumphing over evil.

The well-known classic tale of the three little piglets, their quarrel over the material for their houses and their quarrel with the wolf has become the basis for various adaptations around the world. Pavel Polak, one of the best-known Czech puppet directors, renowned throughout Central Europe, took up the challenge at Mini teater's invitation to adapt a text for our youngest audience, and he has already introduced and established his completely original approach to puppetry and actors in Mini teater with his production of Thumbelina. Polak is a minimalist director who manages to conjure up the beauty of a fairy tale with simple theatrical means and to convey it to children.

The artistic design of the show, created by Czech puppet, visual and film artist Jaroslav Milfajt, is thus a blend of the traditional style of the famous Czech puppet school and contemporary visuality. The playfulness of The Three Little Piglets is complemented by songs and humour.

About the director

Pavel Polak belongs to the most prominent Czech directors of the present time. He was born in 1942. He graduated at the DAMU, the Academy of Performing Arts, as director and dramaturgist of puppet theatre. From 1965 to 1994, he worked as an actor, dramaturgist and director at the Liberec puppet theatre. He directed over 100 performances for children within the Czech Republic, 2 performances in Germany, and 4 in Austria. In Slovenia, he has mainly worked with the Maribor Puppet Theatre (When Mr. Star Comes; The Pretty Polona and the Waterman; Concerto Grosso; Snowhite; Cinderella; Butalci; The Circus Is Coming; Fairy Tales, Where Are You?; Sunny, Where Are You?; The Story about Light; 3 Stories about the Rabbit; The Charmed Princess), and Mini teater (The Dwarf; Three Little Pigs).

Festivals:

LENT / Maribor, Slovenia 2004; 8th Summer Festival of Slovenj Gradec, Slovenia, 2004; Festival Radosti / Brno, Czech Republic, 2004; Šentjanž in Rož, Austria; Slovenia