Peter KUS, Concept, Direction & Music Ajda ROOSS, Test (Inspired By Stories By Sergey KOZLOV) Kaja AVBERŠEK, Art Design Iztok HRGA, Costumes Borut BUČINEL, Lighting Design Urška CVETKO, Performer Bruno KONTREC, Performer Gregor HROVAT, Performer Lola Mlačnik, Performer Ivan ŠTROK, Performer Produced By Children's Theatre Dubrava, Glej Theatre, Federacija Co-Produced By Kuskus

Peter Kus is a composer, puppet theatre director, instrument builder, and educator from Ljubljana, Slovenia. In his latest projects, he explores the field where music and theatre meet. The results are puppet/musical performances like Black Kitchen (2004), The Voice (2005), Tristan Vox (2006), A King Listens (2007), The Lost Tone (2010), The Forest of Songs (2012), Sound Kitchen (2015), Bumm, krach, peng (2017), Nighthawks (2020) and Plastonians (2022). He also investigates other puppet theatre techniques such as video (The Singing Castle, 2011), shadows (Wolfheart, 2015), and drama theatre (Forget me not, 2018). The performances were invited to numerous international festivals and received many awards for music and originality (see below). Peter Kus is also an original musical instrument designer and builder. In September 2008 he conceived a widely appraised series of exhibitions of original musical instruments Euphonia, presented in various towns in Slovenia. From 2012 to 2015 his exhibition The Garden of Sound was presented in Reims (France), Wels (Austria), Ljubljana and Maribor (Slovenia), Šibenik, Osijek, and Rijeka (all in Croatia), Kotor (Montenegro), and Artegna (Italy).

Ajda Rooss graduated from the Department of Dramaturgy at AGRFT in Ljubljana. During her studies at AGRFT she was further educated in puppetry. In 2011, she became the Artistic Director of the International Festival of Contemporary Puppetry LUTKE. She has been the Artistic Director of Lutkovno gledališč;e Ljubljana (the Ljubljana Puppet Theater) from 2013 until 2022. Her artistic contribution to theatre programme is reflected in large international expansion and in many awards. Theatre partly changed the direction of creation toward experimental productions which enrich the medium of puppet theatre with other artistic styles. It ranges from cultivating the marionette tradition to contemporary problem plays for youth. In the last decade the theatre became specialised in new trends, connecting with other genres of art and the application of new materials and technologies in puppetry. She is a chief editor of the international magazine Lutka and co-curator of a permanent exhibition of Ljubljana Museum of Puppetry.

KAJA AVBERšEK is a Slovenian visual artist, comics artist and designer. She's had several independent comics exhibitions and contributed her comics to different comics magazines and anthologies. Apart from that, she also creates illustrations and visuals/scenographies for puppet shows. Her comics shine with a playful departure from the conventions of the comics medium on a formal level and with an extremely stylized, almost pictographic drawing style characterised by a linguistically and visually relaxed approach.