Venue: Budapest Puppet Theatre
Town: Budapest, HU

The Budapest Puppet Theater (Hungarian: Budapest Bábszínház) has been open since 1949, with its primary venue currently situated at 69 Andrássy út, Budapest. Since then, both children and adults are warmly welcome to their performances, because they have a motto that “the puppet is not the matter of age, but a genre.” The Budapest Puppet Theater is the biggest institution of its kind in Central-Europe and the oldest professional puppet theater in Hungary. It is open since 1949 and has been performing for its audience with the motto, “the puppet is not the matter of age, but a genre.” The theater's main tasks are to introduce children to the theater and also to make experiments besides keeping the well-established traditions. One can play with puppets in a thousand ways. Since the theatre has been established, they performed with hand and rod puppets hiding behind the screen, dressed up in black velvet to create the perfect illusion with the puppets held out in the light. They have manipulated marionette figures from above, shadow figures from behind, bunraku puppets on the table and giant puppets from inside masks. Fashion changes, traditions are being born and forgotten, but one thing has never changed, the spell of magic of revival of a lifeless animated object for children and adults. The State Puppet Theater opened on 8 October 1949, and it was renamed in 1992 as Budapest Puppet Theater. Not only did the performances for children make the theater famous worldwide, but also the plays created for adults. It has proven the legitimacy and equality of puppetry with other genres of performing arts with the help of sovereign puppet versions of classic dramas and classical pieces. The biggest successes of the company are linked to the unique definitions of classical music adaptations on all the five continents. The theater's company has three stages to play: the main stage, which has around 400 seats, the Ország Lili Studio, which can be rearranged in several styles. Th