Clowns' Houses

Merlin Puppet Theatre

Athens/Greece, Berlin/Germany
Puppet theatre

Company
The Merlin Puppet Theatre was established in 1995 by the puppet and mask makers Dimitris Stamou and Demy Papada. They often use recycled materials for their backdrops. Up to now, the duo has mainly produced pieces for children. Clowns’ Houses is its first production for adults.

Performance
One house, five flats, six characters: they look happy, but in fact they are leading tragicomic existences. They fear life, not death. Trapped in everyday routines and habits, reality appears in their dreams in the form of terrifying monsters: flaming heads, suffocating electrical cables, aggressive TVs and long dragon’s necks that spit out bank notes. The surreal dream-like scenes revolve around greed and violence, crime and punishment. With table-top puppets, marionettes, animated objects and elements of shadow puppetry, Clowns’ Houses creates an unsettling image of society in miniature.

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Director: Dimitris Stamou
Puppeteers: Dimitris Stamou, Demy Papada
Stage design, set: Dimitris Stamou

When: Nov. 2nd 2012, 7.00 p.m. / Nov. 3rd 2012, 7.00 p.m.
Where: museum FLUXUS+, Schiffbauergasse 4F
Entrance fee: Price category B
Length: 60 min
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Kindly supported by museum FLUXUS+

This performance is supported by: NATIONALES PERFORMANCE NETZ in the framework of guest performance furtherance Theatre from the public purse of the federal government delegate for culture and media as well as the governmental departments of culture and arts of the federal states.

2012


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Contact

Address

T-Werk, Internationales Theater- und Theaterpädagogikzentrum
Schiffbauergasse 4 E, 14467 Potsdam, Germany

Telefon

Phone: +49 331 73042626
Fax: +49 331 73042633