Franz Pocci, Célia Houdart: OPEN THE OWL (FR, SI)

Director Renaud Herbin found his inspiration for the performance in the inventory of the Ljubljana Puppet Theatre, and thus Open the Owl is based on the play The Owl Castle, created in 1936 by Slovene puppeteer Milan Klemenčič, along with miniature marionettes made for the play. Célia Houdart upgraded Franz Pocci’s The Owl Castle, a story of Knight Chukolov who has been turned into an owl and would not be redeemed until he looses all his feathers, into a text which exposes even more the timeless topics of metamorphosis, greed, possession, insanity.

Open the Owl represents – apart from its exceptional artistic value – a wonderful theatre collaboration: generational, cross‑border, genre … as well as collaboration with the audience. Open the Owl is a multi‑layered story and offers multiple points of view to the audience, as the theatre literally expands, opens up, displays before the audience. So many layers mean walking on thin ice, but when everything works out, it’s a treat. The mystery of theatre revealed to the audience.

Directed by: Renaud Herbin
Dramaturgy: Mateja Bizjak Petit
Scenography: Mathias Baudry
Light design: Fanny Bruschi
Sound design: Morgan Daguenet
Artistic advice: Nino Laisné
Proofing: Metka Damjan
Assistant: Chloé Delaby
Performing: Maja Kunšič, Iztok Lužar
Stage manager: Luka Bernetič
Light technician: Niko Štabuc
Stage hands: Luka Moškrič
Puppets production: Iztok Bobič, Polona Černe, Zala Kalan, Zoran Srdić, Marjetka Valjavec, Sandra Birjukov, Špela Ulaga, Olga Milič, Tereza Andrůšková
Set production: Christian Rachner, Pierre Chaumont

Performance features the chanson: Tout fout le camp

Produced by: Lutkovno gledališče Ljubljana
Co-produced by: TJP – Centre Dramatique National D’Alsace

60 minutes

Performance is in Slovene with English surtitles.

Foto: Jaka Varmuž

Ticket booking and information: info@bunker.si, +386 51 269 906

Fleur Elise Noble: ROOMAN (AU)

Fleur Elise Noble is an Australian director, creator and performer. Her work draws from studies of visual arts, physical theatre and community work. She uses a variety of media in her work: drawing, painting, sculpture, puppetry, animation, film, performance, dancing … Her first major production was 2 Dimensional Life of Her, and she’s coming to Ljubljana with her second major project, Rooman.

In this performance, where it is impossible to distinguish projection from reality and scenography from drawings, we fall into the Alice’s (or Fleur’s, in this case) dream hole, into which the protagonist constantly wants to return, as in her dreams she has fallen in love with Rooman – a kangaroo man. In her dreams, her love wanders around the archetypes of love. Which topic is even more eternal than love? Unrequited love. Where do we like to return to the most? To dreams. What’s the point of being awake if everything is more beautiful in dreams? It is the eternal question of the theatre. They say that reality is wilder than any art or any dream, but how to defeat dreams that are so beautiful and where we have – love? What do we do when we »arrive at a point in life when one must face the ultimatum – to give up or to wake up«?

Creator, director, designer, dreamer, dancer, drawer, animator, performer, puppet-maker, projection artist: Fleur Elise Noble
Production operator & stage manager: Niccolo Gallio
Sound design: Missi Mel Pesa
Contributing composers & musicians: Sarah Reid, Zaachariaha Fielding, Tim Bennett, Peter Knight, Mal Webb, Missi Mel Pesa (AKA Melbient)
Drawers and animators: Fleur Elise Noble, Tim Bennet, Isobel Knowles
Costume creators: Fleur Elise Noble, Bryony Anderson, Kasia Tons, Sara Yael (AKA Lily Castel)
Puppeteers: Adrianna Navarro, Louise Harte
Set builder and puppeteer: Tony Martin
Producer: Jason Cross, Insite Arts
Local puppeteer: Blaž Andrašek
Building of scenography: Igra, d. o. o., Igor Remeta, Martin Lovšin, Duško Pušica
55 minutes

Foto: Bryony Jackson

Ticket booking and information: info@bunker.si, +386 51 269 906

Hotel Modern: CAMP (NL)

Photo: Leo Van Velzen

There is this huge model of the Auschwitz Concentration Camp. We see the packed barracks, the railway track and the entrance portal with the inscription »Arbeit Macht Frei«. Hotel Modern attempts to depict the undepictable. (more…)