KNOCK KNOCK KNOCK

puppet and movement performance

Come in, poetry!

Maribor Puppet Theatre in co-production with CENTRE DE CRÉATIONS POUR L'ENFANCE - MAISON DE LA POÉS

In collaboration with the 35th Summer Puppet Pier.

The performance lasts 30 minutes and has no intermission.

Director Mateja Bizjak Petit
Actors Barbara Jamšek in Urban Kolarič
Visual Designers Lucie Félix, Raphaële Enjary, and Myriam Colin
Poets Dorothée Volut, Pierre Soletti, and Fabienne Swiatly
Composer Damien Félix
Translator Nina Medved
Costume Designer Mojca Bernjak
Digital Processing and Sound Designer Maxime Lance
Movement Director Barbara Kanc
Lighting Designers Jérôme Beunier and Urban Kolarič
Scenic Technicians and Set Makers Lucijan Jošt, Branko Caserman, and Urban Saletinger
Sign Language Translator Ajda Pfifer
Lighting Master Aljaž Fredi Novak
Sound Master Urban Kolarič
Special thanks to Adélaïde Billon and Brigitte Bougeard.

The performance Knock Knock Knock is a poetic and playful triptych that invites young children and their companions to step into and immerse themselves in a theatrical journey through poetry. The first part, In Your Eyes by Dorothée Volut, takes them to a realm of wide-open universes, both the ones that touch us up close and the magically endless ones visualized by Lucie Félix. The second part, The Sun Knocked at My Door by Pierre Soletti, gently rocks them into the beauty of the world as perceived through beams of sparkling joy illustrated by Raphaële Enjary. The third part, A Song Grows Under Your Skin by Fabienne Swiatly, invites them into the very heart of poetry, discovering entirely new horizons through textile objects created by Myriam Colin.

In an embracing soundscape, the performer and musician offer a vibrant and stimulating theatrical experience through the lens of play. A play that imposes nothing but invites. A play of words, sounds, colors, and movement. Around these three poetic explorations of existence and creation, three worlds come to life. Young and old audiences are invited to discover the beauty of the simplicity surrounding them, to sense their own inner universe through it, and to surrender to the aesthetic breathing and simply enjoy the richness of their intuitive imagination.

Mateja Bizjak Petit is a Slovenian-French director, poet, and translator who has lived and worked in France since 1993. After studying dramaturgy at the Academy of Theatre, Radio, Film, and Television in Ljubljana, she continued her specialization at the Théâtre aux Mains Nues in Paris under the guidance of Alain Recoing, an internationally acclaimed puppet theatre artist. In Slovenia, she has frequently collaborated with the Ljubljana Puppet Theatre and the Fru-Fru Theatre, and in addition to numerous Slovenian-French translations, she has published three poetry collections: Le Ti (2006), Alica s tisoč rokami (Alica with a Thousand Hands) (2009), and Vosek speče sreče (The Wax of Fortune) (2012). In France, she founded the House of Slovenian Poetry and served as the director of the Centre de Créations pour l’Enfance in Tinqueux for thirteen years.