31st International Festival of Children's Theatres Subotica Program for Monday, September 23

On Monday, September 23 - the second day of the 31st International Festival of Children's Theatres Subotica - the audience will be able to watch two theatrical plays as part of the competition program: Play with Me! by Subotica Children's Theatre (12 p.m. at Subotica Children’s Theatre) and The Prehistoric People by Divadla Kladnos Theatre from the Czech Republic (5:00 p.m. at Subotica National Theatre’s Jadran stage).

Subotica Children’s Theatre will perform the play Play with Me! (written by Tamaš Olah, Marta Bereš, Andrej Boka and directed by Andrej Boka) with a following premise: in their desire to provide everything for their children, parents sometimes forget to offer what they truly need the most - attention and time. This play serves as a little reminder and an invitation to play.

The Czech Divadla Kladnos Theatre will perform a play titled The Prehistoric People (written and directed by Jiří Šponar). In the beginning, the houses were not wind-proof and roofs couldn’t hold back the rain. When the merciless winter came, the heat of the stove was lacking. In short, when man was still pre-human, many things were still not self-evident. See the show and witness how the little man gradually won his place amidst mighty nature.

On Monday, September 23 at 11:30 a.m. an exhibition of festival posters designed by the students of Belgrade’s Faculty of Applied Arts will be opened at The Danilo Kiš Foundation for Youth Culture and Creativity. The posters were designed by 3rd year students of the Applied Graphics Dept. (study modules: Graphics, Book, Animation;subject: Illustration) under supervision of the professor Boban Savić Geto.

On the same day at 1:00 p.m. an exhibition honoring the winners of 2024 The Little Prince Lifetime Achievement Award for the dedication and outstanding contribution of Luka Kecman and Jaroslaw Antoniuk to theatre for children and young people will be opened at the Gallery of Open University.

As part of the Festival’s accompanying program, book promotions for A Doll from Kindergarten to School Group: a Puppetry Handbook and a Collection of Plays by Branka Rudman and 65 Years of Puppet Theatre of Niš are scheduled for Monday September 23 at 3:00 p.m. at Hotel Patria. At the same venue, a discussion session with Luka Kecman (this year's winners of The Little Prince award) will be held on Monday, September 23 at 4:00 p.m.

As part of the festival’s film program, Subotica’s Eurocinema will host a screening of a French feature film The Last Jaguar at 11:15 a.m.

Admission to all events is free!