Limenka Teatar Fest

Limenka Teatar Fest 2025

International Theater Festival for Children, characterized by a blend of theater and ecology, recycling and socializing, will be held in Kruševac from September 3 to 7, 2025.

Tickets for festival performances cannot be purchased with money. It is necessary to bring at least five used beverage cans that will be sent for recycling.

Festival Program

During the five festival days, there will be ten performances from seven countries:

• Montenegro
• Croatia
• North Macedonia
• Hungary
• Bulgaria
• Slovakia
• Serbia

The selectors of the performances are Slobodan Jovanović and actress and director Valentina Pavličić, the artistic director of the Limenka Teatar Fest.

The mission of this festival is to be held in a different city every year and to support the efforts of the local community to educate children and their parents about recycling and environmental protection.

Statements from the Artistic Director

Valentina Pavličić said about this year's festival edition:

"Every host city of the Limenka Teatar Fest brings its color and rhythm – and Kruševac is ready to shine! On September 3, more than 400 children and participants of the parade will lift the city to its feet and symbolically start the search for discarded cans. Over six days, we expect ten carefully designed programs and performances from seven countries that will encourage children and their families to play, think, and recycle. We believe that Kruševac will mark one of the most beautiful beginnings of September with a festival that celebrates art and sustainability. We are looking forward to it!"

Performances

• "The Ugly Duckling" from the Kruševac Theater brings a puppet adaptation of the popular Andersen fairy tale.
• "The Hare and the Dog" from the Puppet Theater "Pinocchio" tells how friendship and a lesson are born from a race.
• In the Macedonian performance "The Bremen Musicians", we follow the famous story of the Bremen musicians – exiled animals seeking a new home.
• In the performance from Montenegro "Fairy Mountain", we see a Dragon that has taken over the village and a Zduhač who will overthrow him.
• The National Theater in Priština, in collaboration with the Faculty of Arts at the University and the Cultural Center "Gračanica", will present "Cinderella", which brings us back to basic values – faith and love.
• "Guardians of Nature" from the Kraljevo Theater tells about the struggle of good fairies to preserve the last tree on the planet.
• The performance "Plimplim" from Hungary depicts how the objects around us hide rhythms and melodies that create a magical world.
• In the Slovak performance "Chaplin", the titular main character will take us through the streets of ancient Košice with live music.
• The Bulgarian performance "Daughter of the Samurai" is an educational performance for children and adults through the lens of Japanese culture.
• "Four Wonderful Accidents" from Croatia presents four stories of strange and wonderful heroes, where actors and puppets are together on stage.

Tickets

Tickets for festival performances cannot be purchased with money. To watch the performance, it is necessary to bring at least five used beverage cans that will be sent for recycling.

In exchange for the brought aluminum packaging, one ALU COIN, the first ecological currency in the world made of aluminum, is received, which is used to buy a ticket.

Children and their parents who bring more used beverage cans will receive additional alu-coins, which they can use at the LIMENKA BAZAAR, where a wide selection of school supplies awaits them.

(KomuniArt)