Tin House

The performance is anchored in Magnus Mills’ story Three to See the King, serving as a starting point from where the creative team takes us on a journey. With the main character Gregor, we embark on a puppet western, a journey through the desert and the discovery of what it is that we really want. On his journey in the desert, the protagonist, explorer Gregor, finds an abandoned tin house. Despite the house being neglected, nearly destroyed and
abandoned, Gregor chooses to move into it. His surroundings and the turn of events make him wonder how he can be satisfied with this way of life. It is, after all, nicer in the newly built city. Will Gregor overcome his fears and be able to listen to himself?

Justification of the selector of 13TH BIENNIAL OF PUPPETRY ARTISTS OF SLOVENIA
As a centre point of the festival’s accompanying programme, I set young creators who will shape Slovenian puppet
expression tomorrow. Among them, I would like to point out the play Tin House by director Jana Nunčič, which was created as part of the BiTheatre of the Ljubljana Puppet Theatre. It is a puppet western, based on a somewhat fragile story, which becomes a training
ground for excellent acting and animation with wonderful table and finger puppets and a circular stage. This performance playfulness, I find the most valuable and most successful among all the performances and authors of the younger generations, whose common weakness is the insufficient staging articulation of the initial (often excellent) idea.