Fru Fru Puppet Theatre
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30 Nov 2013
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27 Oct 2013
28 Oct 2013
Ela Peroci's My Umbrella is a Balloon, Too!, produced by the Fru Fru Puppet Theatre, at the Kids Euro Festival, organised by the Embassy of the Republic of Slovenia Washington,
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16 Oct 2013
20 Oct 2013
Videk’s New Shirt by Fru Fru Puppet Theatre, Forest of Song by Glej Theatre, Thumbelina by Mini Theatre, and The Enormous Turnip by Bobek Puppet Theatre at the International Puppet Festival Cikl Cakl
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25 May 2013
Videk’s New Shirt produced by Fru Fru Puppet Theatre, co-organised by the Embassy of the Republic of Slovenia Paris,
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10 Nov 2012
14 Nov 2012
Videk’s New Shirt, a puppet show by Fru Fru Puppet Theatre organised by the Embassy of the Republic of Slovenia Washington, touring different venues,
at the Kids Euro Festival (USA)
Background
Fru Fru Puppet Theatre was founded by student puppeteers who worked at Pionirski dom (Pioneer Home) with Lojze Kovačič as their tutor and produced several small-scale mobile performances that toured kindergartens and schools. Later on, the ensemble (which then included Mateja Bizjak, Ava Lokošek, Irena Rajh, and Andreja Hočevar) fell apart. However, in 1992 Irena Rajh established a family puppet theatre troupe with her husband Marjan Kunaver, reviving the Fru Fru name.
Performances
Fru Fru Puppet Theatre collaborates with numerous puppet makers, such as Igor Cvetko, Marko A. Kovačič, Marina Hrovatin, puppetry directors, such as Jelena Sitar, Jan Zakonjšek, Mateja Bizjak, musicians, visual and puppet artists, and writers. Fru Fru also collaborates extensively with Zapik Theatre and Konj Puppet Theatre. Its productions regularly appear and are awarded at the Slovene Puppetry Biennial and the Summer Puppet Pier Festival.
Fru Fru's productions have appeared also in at the international festival in Ieper, Belgium, at the Festival Bielsko-Biala in Poland, at the International Puppet Festival PIF in Zagreb, Croatia, and at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival, where Fru Fru's production of Ela Peroci's story My Umbrella Can Be a Baloon Too [Moj dežnik je lahko balon] (1996) was awarded as the best children's performance in 1999. In 2009, Fru Fru's production of Sleeping Beauty [Trnuljčica] (2008) was awarded at the 5th Slovene Puppetry Biennial.