Ceremonial Programme Participants

The Emperor’s Sacrificer

Puppet Theatre Niš, Serbia

 

Text: Mijodrag Stanisavljević

Directed & Set Design: Zoran Lozančić

Puppets & Costumes designed by: Erika Janović

Puppets & Costumes made by: Ljubica Suturović & Arsen Ćosić

Composer: Nenad Milosavljević Galija

Puppets made by: Ljubica Suturović & Arsen Ćosić

Language Editor: Aleksandra Lončar

 

Cast: Dejan Gocić, Mirjana Đorđević, Tatjana Milenković, Biljana Radenković, Toma Bibić, Svetlana Mihajlović, Davorin Dinić, Slobodan Mil­jković, Srđan Miljković, Hadži Stanislava Joković

 

A clichéd summary of all fairy tales – finding a bridegroom for a spoiled princess, an ugly giant threatening the kingdom – is here transformed and elevated through authentic poetry, a wealth of forgotten beautiful words, and a host of newly coined expressions.

 

Emperor Prtprtptislav VI is challenged to a duel by a terrible giant with a flower in his teeth, who threatens to destroy the empire. The timid yet shrewd emperor promises the one who defeats this creature the throne and the hand of his beautiful daughter. But alas, the emperor does not reward Mitar the Singer, the brave farmer who defeats the giant; instead, he throws him into the dungeon. The emperor then fulfils his favourite daughter’s wish and gives her hand to the young and handsome Jovan, who flees on his white horse Bjelac after the unequal clash. Mitar the Singer receives neither the throne nor the princess – only the hope that a poet will preserve his feat and success from oblivion.

 

Explosively witty dialogues, dynamic staging, and original music rich with ethno-rock rhythms, com­bined with imaginative costumes and scenography, bring this theatrical fairy tale vividly to life.

 

Form: Puppet show

Language: Serbian

Age of the audience: 7 – 77

Performance duration: 60 minutes

 

Choir Magic Note

The Smile of Niš – Festival Anthem

Bibbidi-Bobbidi-Boo – Song from the animated film Cinderella

Whistle While You Work – Song from the animat­ed film Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs

If You’re Happy and You Know It Clap Your Hands! – Children’s song

 

 

Elena Pilipenko Ballet Studio

Children’s Play

Dancing Ducklings

Variation 1 from the ballet Raymonda

Variation from the ballet Swan Lake

Polka

Marionettes

Variation 2 from the ballet Raymonda

Tarantella

 

Children’s Cultural Centre Niš

Song from the May Song Festival – Magic World, performed by Dorotea Milošević

 

 

The Cultural and Artistic Association Abrašević

A collection of children’s games from Serbia