From today on the street theatre carnival lasting for five days will take over all major squares and streets in the old city centre of Maribor
This time Ana Desetnica is bringing a number of pranks and humour, social criticism and bitter satire to the streets of Maribor. In the evenings it will warm you with fiery acrobatics and take your breath away with breakneck performances and during the day it will entertain you with circus elements and make you laugh, the street performers will have coffee with you and provide you with magical headpieces onto your heads.
The theatre carnival through the city will open tonight at 9.30 pm on the Trg Leona Štuklja square with the Belgian group Flam&Co trying to tame a wild, fiery bull and two more “devils” causing chaos around town. This will be Murmuyo and Metrayeta, unrepeatable, funny and sometimes daring yet cheeky masters of disturbing public order. In Chile, where they were born, they are called “the urban disasters” and the title of their performance Su-Seso Taladro means “an exercise for your brain and open mind”. The unique British performance Until now is offering an acrobatic adventure. The director Léandre Ribere is sensitively leading it through the poetic universe of happy turns and harmonic balances and mimbre are creating unforgettable images and telling stories with their unique vocabulary of physical theatre, dance and acrobatic skills.
A new character on the Slovene street theatre scene will have his premiere in Maribor - Nik Štrik Škrlec. Until now he has been performing in Austria, Croatia, Slovakia and Poland. If he had a head, he would bang it against the wall, but now he is left with balls which he throws in the air and a rope to fall backwards. He is the rope walker never to be, which calls for Happiness on a leash and explodes with joy. Also, don’t miss the international street performance Mother Courage on July 2nd on the Trg svobode square – with 40 actors from 11 countries and audience participation.
