The elf of Shakespeare’s play, “A Midsummer’s Night Dream”, came once down to Cluj, cast its spell on some pieces of wood and rags and turned them into marionettes. So, the people of the town made these puppets a house and thus the “Puck” Puppet Theatre was born, to turn stories into art.

Renowned for its multicultural vocation, Cluj boasts a puppet theatre with a tradition of more than half a century. Its Romanian and Hungarian departments stage plays in three languages, Romanian, Hungarian and German, and more recently, Romany, and the dedication of the actors was rewarded with many national and international awards. And, considering stories as part of the international patrimony, many of the plays hosted by the Theatre along time had both Romanian and Hungarian versions, or even in German. The performances take place on Saturdays (12 p.m.), in Hungarian, and Sundays, from 11 a.m. and 12.30 p.m., in Romanian. The Theatre organizes frequently performances in kindergartens and schools.

The repertoire of the theatre includes the staging in Romanian of Little Red Riding Hood, Pinocchio, Alina and the Little Goose, Snow White, Cinderella, Stan Bolovan, Gulliver, The Witch’s Tom-cat, Stan the Troublesome, Emelian and the Empty Pouch, The Sandman, and in Hungarian of Poor Johnny,
The Little Pig Herd, The Little Tower, The Beauty and the Ugly Lad, Hansel

and Gretel, The Gentle Dragon, Little Red Riding Hood, The Theatre of the Shadows, Matthew The Gooseherd, The Little Elephant, Plum-Plum, Vitez Laszlo and Vasilache.