PUCK PUPPET THEATRE - ROMANIA
ABOUT ”PUCK” PUPPET THEATRE PUCK Puppet Theatre from Cluj-Napoca, Romania, was founded in 1950 and its history was made by artistic personalities such as: Kovács Ildikó, Aureliu Manea, Mona Marian, Maria Mierlut, Varga Ibolya, Rumi László, Pály János, Bogdan Ulmu, Alexandru Rusan, Edit Botar, Virgil Svintiu, Eugenia Tãrãsescu Jianu, Epaminonda Tiotiu, Sandu Marian, Horea Popand PéterJános, Doina Dejica, Frunzina Anghel, Bothos Julia, Csortán Márton, György László and Calin Mureșan. Some of there ference shows in the repertoire of PUCK Theatre are: A Midsummer Night’s Dream, Ubu the King, Widow Karnyó, Sânziana and Pepelea, Animal Stories, Cinderella, The Puss in Boots, Endless Youth and Life without Death, Little Red Riding Hood, Snow White, The Reed Princess, and many more. Since 2002, PUCK Theatre organizes “Puck” International Festival of Puppet And Marionette Theatres, with important puppet theaters from Romania and Europe being invited. The festival has reached 16 editions in 2017, bringing together valuable national and international artists. Also, in 2017 PUCK Theatre, in collaboration with ESUA Association and Lions International, organized the first edition of Wonder Puck Street Festival. Its second edition will take place in September 2018. Since 2006 Puck Theatre is running a program of performances for adults, using the means of puppetry in experimental performances: Old Clown for Hire, The Mirror Chamber, Bubocska, Ivan Turbinca etc.