She pointed out that this autumn the Liepāja Puppet Theater plans to participate in a total of three international festivals and perform two performances created during the pandemic – “Me and My Mom”, the author and director of which is Karolīna Jurkštaite, and “Little Man”, directed by Ģirts Šolis.
Hmieļevska said that the Liepāja Puppet Theater will go to the Klaipeda Festival with the performance “Lithuanian and My Mother” by Lithuanian director Jurkštaite, which is a manifestation of love for children and nature. The musical design of the show consists of Kristion Lučinskis’ sound recordings of nature with the voices of birds from the forests around Liepāja, the bent sound of the seaside dunes and the rustle of the Baltic Sea. Natural materials are used in the scenography.
According to the representative of Liepāja Puppet Theater, the show has been created as a nature exploration play for the youngest spectators – children from 9 to 12 months of age. In total, the festival will offer ten puppet theater performances to audiences of all ages on the topics of nature, ecology and family relations. The festival also includes a puppet animation film program for adults and an educational workshop program for families.
At the end of September, the production “Little Man” will have its live premiere at the Liepāja Art Forum. Hmieļevska noted that in the performance, in which the actors do not speak a word and work only with industrially produced dolls, the theater of objects alternates with circus elements, but the materials and objects used to create the scenography live their second and third lives. The production, directed by Šolis, is also planned to be performed at the International Theater Festival in Lviv, Ukraine, in October.
