Ever-Continuing Puppetry

‘Dreaming a future’ doesn’t always have to mean innovation and renewal. It might as well be keeping a tradition or custom high. In this case, puppetry has entertained a lot of Slovenian children every week since hundreds of years and the Slovenians tend to keep it that way.

The first known form of puppetry in Slovenia were scenes from everyday life that were performed at peasant festivities from the 15th until the mid 20th century. True puppet theatres as we know it now, were introduced in 1910 by painter Milan Kemeneie with his Little Marionette Theatre.
 
In Ljubljana they keep up the puppet tradition in the theatre ‘Lutkovno Gledališče’, which was founded in 1948. It provides over 500 annual performances and it is a mixture of creative music, design and other forms. Every hour musical puppets come out of a small tower on the roof of the building.