The Naive Theatre Liberec was founded in 1949 as one of the first professional Czech puppet theatres. In 2009-2019, its productions received the prestigious Erik Puppetry Award, awarded for the best Czech puppet production of the past season, five times. The Naive Theatre organizes the international festival Mateřinka, which focuses on puppet productions for preschool children every two years.
The Naive Theatre places a deliberate emphasis on original devised work and consistently strives to produce puppet theatre performances, regardless of whether the term “puppet” encompasses figurative, object-based, or any other form of visual theatre.
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