This year, the group chose the theme of Greek mythology. Originality is achieved by the way puppets are shaped, by thinking about the material used in the production, and by deciding that it should be paper and cardboard. Although paper is such a rudimentary material, individuals have created truly fascinating puppets and figures with sculptural precision. The animation of large puppets sometimes requires as much as three animators. Although these children and young people vary greatly in age, what unites them is an intense commitment to the entire performance at all stages of its creation: from sketch, modelling, character design, animation, dramaturgy, story, narration, speech, singing… At every stage, we explored the possibilities together.
The resulting play is a series of images where the animation of puppets and materials prevails, as well as music, while the narrators’ voices are pre-recorded, and only sometimes in direct communication with puppets.
PUPPETRY STUDIO OF THE ZAGREB YOUTH THEATRE COLLEGE
The Puppetry Studio of the Zagreb Youth Theatre College brings together children and young people from preschool to university age in order to bring them closer to puppetry art and theatre in general. By making puppets, students get to know different materials and engage in animation with an emphasis on the fact that anything can be a puppet: from unaltered material to objects and ultimately an anthropomorphic puppet in the narrowest sense.
