The elf of Shakespeares play, A Midsummers
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 Witchs 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