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 drink 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 Limenka Teatar Fest.

The mission of this festival is to be held in a different city each year and to support local community efforts 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 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 raise 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, which 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" by the Kruševac Theater brings a puppet adaptation of the popular Andersen fairy tale.
• "The Rabbit and the Dog" by the Puppet Theater "Pinocchio" tells how friendship and a lesson are born from a race.
• In the Macedonian performance "The Bremen Town Musicians", we follow the famous story of the Bremen musicians – exiled animals searching for a new home.
• In the performance from Montenegro "Fairy Mountain", we watch a Dragon that has ruled the village and Zduhač who will overthrow him.
• The National Theater in Priština, in cooperation with the Faculty of Arts of the University and the Cultural Center "Gračanica", will present the performance "Cinderella" which brings us back to fundamental values – faith and love.
• "Guardians of Nature" by the Kraljevo Theater speaks about the struggle of good fairies to save the last tree on the planet.
• The performance "Plimplim" from Hungary illustrates 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 wondrous 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 drink cans that will be sent for recycling.

In exchange for the brought aluminum packaging, one ALU COIN is received, the first ecological currency in the world, made of aluminum, with which the ticket is purchased.

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

(KomuniArt)