Once upon a time there was a theater

Recently I received a message from a young friend of mine. She wrote me: “I haven’t seen you update your blog for a long time. I’m worried about you.” Indeed, I didn’t write anything new for a long time. Honestly, I lack the inspiration and motivation for writing, specially about theater. The time we live…Read more »

e-Childhood

The way of life enforced during the pandemic of Corona-19 virus with quarantine, self-isolation, social distancing, excessive usage of computers and gadgets including online learning and teaching etc. intensified addiction of children to IT and accelerated the process of change of the paradigm of childhood itself.  The Paradigms of Childhood In the history of humans,…Read more »

“Live without pretending, Love without depending, Listen without defending, Speak without offending.”

Recently I came across these words that I have already heard before but they somehow disappeared from my memory. Now they caught my attention. Is it because of my present occupation with thinking about the future life and human relationships after this pandemic time is over (that I wrote about in my last post)? Is…Read more »

Living on a Seesaw

Allow me to write one personal and intimate reflection on this dramatic moment we all live in. While the epidemic in China is officially over, and while the life in China is slowly recovering and assuming its previous character and shape, Europe is only at the very beginning of the epidemic. I left China on…Read more »

World Day of Theatre for Children and Young People 2020

Today, March 20, we are celebrating The World Day of Theater for Children!  Artists and theaters for children around the globe usually spend this special day in theaters with their audience, performing and celebrating theatre art for children together. The World Day was established and is maintained by ASSITEJ, a global association of theaters for…Read more »

Life in the Time of Quarantine

It seams as if the life has stopped. In only few days the virus has changed our lives. Like every really dangerous enemy it is invisible, inaudible, it cannot be identified, it cannot be fought… So we did what we had to do — we went into isolation, into quarantine, to protect ourselves from the…Read more »

Happy New Year of the Rat

The year 2019 is behind us and the new 2020 is still young. The year of the Pig is slowly flowing away and the year of the Rat is coming with good perspectives and promises. Isn’t this a perfect moment to make a summary of the last year?! Theater Once Upon a Chaos The highlight…Read more »

“How can I play? Where and when can I play?”

Recently I was performing my solo storytelling performance “Palle Alone In the World” in Beijing. I have made this performance many years ago and I performed it more than 2000 times in many different countries and in different languages. All around the world children react on the performance in the same way — with laughter,…Read more »

The World Day of Theater for Children 2019

Every year on March 20, all the artists, theater practitioners, children and everybody who love children’s theater celebrate The World Day of Theater for young audiences! Each year ASSITEJ Centres and Networks, theaters for children and artists around the globe, deliver activities ranging from conferences, performances, workshops and special media events in order not only…Read more »

Children need stories, stories need storytellers!

In the time of visual communications and artificial intelligence that is sucking the imagination out from the mind of our children, we, professionals in the field, have a fundamental mission and task to reaffirm the importance of the spoken word and stories and build up the environment for rebirth of storytelling. We must urgently educate…Read more »