A small summary of the year 2025

The hectic end of the year with filling in and accounting was replaced by a calm during Christmas, both real and emotional. What did we manage to do, what happened outside of us in our republic, in the world...? and how did we fulfill our tasks?

If I summarize the activities of the Tineola Theater in 2025, there was a lot: reworking the performance Big and Small Worlds after the January German premiere at the Schaubude Theater into a Czech version, for which we added another member of the ensemble, Kateřina Vecker.
And on March 29, we had the premiere at Dobeška in Prague 4 and, as part of the theater night, also Michaela Bartoňová's Music Garden. It was a very pleasant and long relaxing evening with guests and music (Michal Kořán, Miroslav Posejpal and Night Note and Jaroslav Kořán) which I visually - live - accompanied on an iPad.
This was followed by the reconstruction of the German version of Grosse und kleine Welten (Big and Small Worlds) and Wundersame Würzel Welten (Wonderful Root of the Wood Wide Web) for the Figurentheater Festival in Nuremberg and then for the Rudolf Steiner Waldorf school in the school auditorium. For almost 400 children from different classes, long discussions on our topics, which popularize science in puppet digital theater, always followed.

In the summer, we prepared to participate in the Mezi Lesy festival in the magical village of Skřivaň near Rakovník in the Czech Republic, where poetry and book readings, small workshops, a concert and theater for children usually take place.

In the fall, one thing followed another - Berlin several times in theaters and in the library, the festival in Husum in the school auditorium for the public and the next day for the school. Photos and info

The adventure almost always takes place during the preparation of the performance because when we say we need a darkened hall, we really need darkness for the projection. However, this often does not correspond, unless we are playing in a professional theater. And so we search and improvise and lose precious rehearsal time, but in the end everything works out, but we don't have a second to be nervous because we have to jump right into it.
We don't have technicians, lighting and sound engineers and we have to manage everything ourselves, or with hired colleagues to whom we have to explain everything.

Then, after a four-year reconstruction of the puppet theater and museum in Lübeck Kölk 17, we played for the first time in a new space with a modern interior, which, however, remained preserved from the outside in the form of a medieval building.
The audience is used to interesting puppet shows for children and adults. Nevertheless, it seemed that with our unusual concept of live drawing and abstract expression of events in the invisible world, we surprised the audience.

At the end of the year, we performed two performances at the Naive Theater in Liberec and back in Prague, two performances at the Dobeška Theater, to full audiences.
The children at the performances were riveted to the stage and the projection for the entire hour-long performance.
And they asked questions and we discussed for another half hour and the topics we touch on: the invisible world of bacteria, bacteria in depression from us humans, the cosmos and unknown objects flying through our solar system like Oumuamua and how everything is connected to everything.

And how it is necessary to be inspired by nature, so that we can cooperate at least in the way that it happens, for example, under the surface of the forest in symbiotic relationships of plants and mycorrhizal networks. And they have existed for millions of years, while our Internet - which is VERY similar in structure to mycorrhizal ones, has only been around for a few decades... Actually, according to AI, it is exactly like this: The Internet did not come into being on one specific day, but developed gradually: its roots go back to the ARPANET network (first transmission in 1969), the term "internet" appeared in 1987, the World Wide Web (WWW) by Tim Berners-Lee in 1989-1991 brought a revolution for users, and more massive commercialization and expansion occurred in the 1990s.

And so, our activities have a short winter break, but we are slowly getting ready for the conference "Education for Tomorrow" - 7 competences in children - communication, cooperation, contextual competence, digital competence, creativity, critical thinking and culture (for kindergarten and elementary school teachers) and for the symposium in Frankfurt am Main: "Seem and be" how to deal with illusions and reality in puppet theatre, how to approach it and what forms to choose...

And besides that, we will probably continue to play, in February at the Schaubude theatre in Berlin on 14.2.: My little Eye Pet for children and then we will see where the world goes...

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