Rain – Vanja Jovanović (HR)
A poetic puppet story about peer violence and disorientation in the expressing of emotions in the process of growing up.
The performance Rain deals with current themes such as peer violence and disorientation in the expressing of emotions in the process of growing up and the series of important life situations through which the protagonist Petar who is actually like one of us goes through.
The performance won at Lutkolab, a competition that wants to enable young and non-established artists to produce a professional puppet show. Members of the jury were artists and employers of the Rijeka Puppet Theatre and a group of ten or so children who attended the workshop of the Benčić Youth Council. Before taking part in the jury, the children attended a puppetry workshop under the guidance of Petra Šarac (HR) and got to know the basics of work on the artistic production of a performance and a critical observation of theatrical work.