Repertoire

Clownbuf

25.─31. May 2012

The Clownbuf festival has been acquainting the Slovene audience with the contemporary professional clowning for the past four years. This year's rendition will also pay a visit to the hallowed halls of the Puppet Theatre Maribor. We will have the opportunity to admire high-end artists of world renown and true greats of contemporary professional clown theatre. Since including culture in the urban environment constitutes an important mechanism to set forth a holistic development of the city, the Clownbuf workshop - an integral part of the festival - will be set up as part of an urban space. This international project will come about in cooperation with the Le Samovar Clowning Arts and Theatre School from France. The final production including both the artists and the workshop participants will be performed for a public audience under the title Mad City.

Rain Bird - A Paper Tale

"...At the end of the world, in an evergreen forest, there lived the most beautiful bird in the world - the Rain Bird. People came and settled in the forest; they sang and danced in honor of the bird, but then..." What happens when a little village has become a big city? What happens when the song and the story of the bird have been forgotten? And what happens when a little child believes that there is still a place for the Rain Bird in this world? In a unique theatrical language, which combines the art of Origami together with the art of story-telling, the artist instills life into the paper; the folded heroes partake in a dramatic plot, full of magic and surprises.