Festival club Fri 4.11. 9pm
TIP-Fest Festival club on Friday Turku International Puppetry Festivalin club celebrates 10 years of Aura of Puppets network: balloons, music, cake and other birthday business fill Tehdas Theatre foyer. Festival…
Artist talks: Drinks with Elina
Drinks with Elina is a discussion series during Turku International Puppetry festival. Artists bring to the table their favourite drink and share ideas about the performances, puppet art as well…
Sparrow
Lovely little Sparrow flies over to Manilla courtyard to meet the festival guests on Saturday at 9 pm. This lit giant puppet brings beauty and magic to the dark November…
Lee Lahikainen & Co.: OBSESSION
Pakkomieliteko (Obsession) is a seven-minute miniature solo for an audience for one. This small performance made of paper and cardboard tells the story of a 19th-century youth named Alice Mitchell…
Forsman – Halme – Kultala – Latvala – Sippola & Turun kaupunginteatteri: THE BIRDS
The Birds is a puppet theatrical cabaret that celebrates birdlife from a range of different points of view. It explores the diversity of nature, climate change, looks at birds through…
Photo: Maija Kurki
TEHDAS Teatteri & Niina Lindroos: THE UNMENTIONABLE
A solo toy theater* performance inspired by life and art of French photographer and painter Dora Maar (1907–1997). The starting point for the piece was the puppet theatre -like presence…
Käppi – Rajala – Räikkä: FEAR OF THE FOREST
A mystical puppetry horror tale about Finns and their relationship to the forest. Fear of the forest combines sound art and puppetry with horror and creates a visual-magical sphere of…
Jussi Virkkumaa
Dirty Duckling: FUNNY
The Best Puppet Show Ever Made Dirty Duckling’s performance FUNNY is made of Finnish puppeteers’ burning desire to conquer the theatre world. It consists of great skills, balloonlike humour and…
Anna Nekrassova & Co. Before Thumbelina
A visually stunning solo performance for adults about challenges, dreams and perseverance. Buy tickets I am a desert, full of tumbleweeds. No flowers, no rain. Fear crawls towards me, digs…
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Teatteri Qo: TEA FOR TWO
A short objec theatre performance where the tea is best served cold. Buy tickets "Tea for Two" is a short object theatre performance in which tea is best served cold.…
Iida Vanttaja: A Mountain that Loved a Bird
This theatrical adaptation of Alice McLerran’s beloved tale about the friendship of a lonely Mountain and a Bird straying onto it makes use of the fascinating means of shadow theatre. Music…
Kuva: Maria Zittig
Nurinpäin Kollektiivi: INVISIBLE
Invisible is a puppetry inspired comedy about loneliness, told through live music, furniture and movement. We get to follow Lo’s struggle to become visible in the school. What can we…
