Country: IRAN
DATE: 8th April 2013
SHOW TIME: 7:30PM
VENUE: Amphitheatre IHC

DATE: 11th April 2013
SHOW TIME: 7:30PM
VENUE: Epicentre, Gurgaon

The popular folk legend of Russia, Sadko's story is retold here with musical splendor. A musician who’s lonely, one starry night takes his instrument and goes to play by the river. While he’s tracing the moon in the water, suddenly the King of the Sea appears & invites the astonished musician to play at his underwater palace. But how will he get there? And how will the musician get back? Watch this fantastic, music filled show to find out.

Language: English
Suitable for audiences: family show
Duration: 50 minutes
Directed by: Hossein Cheraghi
Performed by: The Yasna Puppet Theatre Group

 

Country: Italy
DATE: 8th April 2013
SHOW TIME: 7:30PM
VENUE: Club Patio, Gurgaon

DATE: 9th April 2013
SHOW TIME: 7:30PM
VENUE: Amphitheatre IHC

Meet Mr. Nonso and Miss Nonsa - two puppets grappling with their own funny problems and conflicts. Watch the silly twosome and their crazy attempts to try to find solutions & understand how everything in their world works. Like Charlie Chaplin and the silent movies of the early 1900s, the performance consists of short poetic sketches full of music, visual humor, comic timing and of course - explanatory signs!

Language: Non Verbal
Suitable for audiences: family show
Duration: 50 minutes
Directed by: Valeria Bianchi
Performed by: Pupazzi di Carta

 

Country: INDIA
DATE: 9th April 2013
SHOW TIME: 7:30PM
VENUE: Club Patio, Gurgaon

DATE: 13th April 2013
SHOW TIME: 7:30PM
VENUE: Amphitheatre IHC

Dhola Maru is a folk tale that originated in northwestern Rajasthan. This romantic legend of the separation of a young couple and their subsequent reunion was traditionally sung as a ballad, enacted as a nautanki drama and illustrated in numerous paintings. The current production is an adaptation of this story and it goes as follows. First time traditional puppet manipulation slow motion with story emotions effects.

Language: Rajasthani
Suitable for audiences: Family Show
Duration: 50 minutes
Directed by: Puran Bhat
Performed by: Aakaar Puppet Theatre

 

Country: PORTUGAL
DATE: 8th April 2013
SHOW TIME: 7:30PM
VENUE: Epicentre, Gurgaon

DATE: 10th April 2013
SHOW TIME: 7:30PM
VENUE: Amphitheatre IHC

Every visit to the pier by the sea is an incredible journey full of wonder, beauty and amazement. Using poetry, dance, puppetry, animations, music and optical illusions; this non-verbal show brings to life the uniqueness of a pier as well its universality and timelessness. If one has a desire to grow in an emotional or spiritual way, there’s no better place to visit but the pier - where all of life’s past and future meets.

Language: Non Verbal
Suitable for audiences: family show
Duration: 60 minutes
Performed by: Marionetas em Viagem (ACOME)

 

Country: Israel
DATE: 11th April 2013
SHOW TIME: 7:30PM
VENUE: Amphitheatre IHC

DATE: 13th April 2013
SHOW TIME: 7:30PM
VENUE: Club Patio, Gurgaon

DATE: 14th April 2013
SHOW TIME: 7:30PM
VENUE: Tagore Theatre, Chandigarh

Welcome to the Cubes Circus where anything can happen! Prepare to amaze your senses and let your imagination run wild – this magical, rib-tickling show features a couple of clowns & dancers who create magic by transforming cubes into different animals and things.

Inspired by the Bauhaus dance theatre & the popular children’s book Tsafuf, this award winning inventive mime performance without words, combines modern puppetry, sculpture & dance theatre.

Language: Non Verbal
Suitable for audiences: family show
Duration: 45 minutes
Concept, direction and design: Galia Levy-Grad
Performed by: The Train Theater

 

Country: BULGARIA
DATE: 9th April 2013
SHOW TIME: 7:30PM
VENUE: Epicentre, Gurgaon

DATE: 12th April 2013
SHOW TIME: 7:30PM
VENUE: Amphitheatre IHC

DATE: 15th April 2013
SHOW TIME: 7:30PM
VENUE: Tagore Theatre, Chandigarh

Based on a traditional Bulgarian fairy tale, it’s a fun-filled family show with mischievous puppets. Our hero is a simple man who wants to find a good and caring girl to marry and chooses a rather strange but clever way to do it. With his trusty donkey, he goes from village to village, and offers girls nice fresh juicy plums in exchange for their house garbage.

Language: Non Verbal
Suitable for audiences: family show
Duration: 45 minutes
Written, Directed and Produced by: Petar Todorov
Performed by: Pro Rodopi Art Centre

 

Country: RUSSIA
DATE: 10th April 2013
SHOW TIME: 7:30PM
VENUE: Epicentre, Gurgaon

DATE: 13th April 2013
SHOW TIME: 7:30PM
VENUE: Tagore Theatre, Chandigarh

A fun filled performance; it’s the adventures of a little girl Masha, who lost her way in the forest while picking fruits. She finds a little house in the middle of the forest, in which a naughty and ferocious bear lives. The bear makes Masha his prisoner and makes her clean his house and cook him his food. Will the little girl manage to outwit the big bad bear and return home?

Language: English
Suitable for audiences: family show
Duration: 50 minutes
Directed by: Rita S. Grigoryan
Performed by: The Moscow Regional State Puppet Theatre

 

Country: Spain
DATE: 12th April 2013
SHOW TIME: 7:30PM
VENUE: Club Patio, Gurgaon

DATE: 14th April 2013
SHOW TIME: 7:30PM
VENUE: Amphitheatre IHC

Adela, a beautiful woman, is bound by her mother to follow the traditional role of Spanish women in society. The free spirit rebels against her mother’s tyranny with tragic consequences.

This coming of age tragedy explores themes of passion, sexuality, human nature, repression and freedom. Using puppetry, objects, dance, video projections and lighting, this wordless & colorful performance is a spectacular tribute to women everywhere & the freedom they rightly deserve in society.

Language: Non Verbal
Suitable for audiences: Teen-agers and adults
Duration: 45 minutes
Directed by: Alejandra Prieto
Performed by: The Winged Cranes

 

Country: INDIA (ODISHA)
DATE: 11th April 2013
SHOW TIME: 7:30PM
VENUE: Club Patio, Gurgaon

DATE: 15th April 2013
SHOW TIME: 7:30PM
VENUE: Amphitheatre IHC

The greatest Indian epic ever told – Ramayana is brought to life here through the magic of shadow puppetry. Teeming with powerful deities, magic weapons, demon armies, and divine love; we follow Rama, a god-turned-prince, on his quest to rescue his wife Sita after she is kidnapped by the multi-headed demon king Ravan. The show’s text is from the 18th Century Odia poet Biswanath Khuntia’s “Bichitra Ramayan”, which is still very popular in the state of Odisha.

Suitable for audiences: family show
Duration: 60 minutes
Directed by: Guru Khageswar Pradhan
Performed by: Ravan Chhaya Natya Sansada

 

Country: INDIA
DATE: 13th April 2013
SHOW TIME: 7:30PM
VENUE: Epicentre, Gurgaon

DATE: 16th April 2013
SHOW TIME: 7:30PM
VENUE: Amphitheatre IHC

Interweaving puppets, actors, dance, visual images and music in a spellbinding poetic presentation, Ishara brings to life India’s greatest story of star-crossed lovers. Heer & Ranjha fall in love at first sight, but fate has something else in store for them. Heer is forced to marry another, and the two lovers later reunite with tragic consequences. Written in the 18th century by renounced Punjabi Sufi poet Waris Shah, there are many timeless themes about society & religion; hypocrisies and anomalies that remained unchanged even in today's modern Indian society.

Language: Hindi/Punjabi
Suitable for audiences: Teenagers and adults
Duration: 45 minutes
Directed by: Dadi D.Pudumjee
Script by: Maheep Singh
Performed by: The Ishara Puppet Theatre Trust