PUPPEN THEATER – FIGURE THEATER

  • 1977

  • Isaac, Salih: ORLANDO MALEROSO

  • Inspired by Marin Držić, conceived by Zlatko Bourek
  • Dubrovnik Summer Festival Drama Ensemble
  • Director, set and puppet design: Zlatko Bourek
  • Costume design: Diana Kosec – Bourek
  • Music: Davor Rocco
  • Premiere: 22 August 1977, Dubrovnik Summer Festival

  • Isaac, Salih: ORLANDO MALEROSO

  • Puppet play
  • &TD Theatre, Zagreb
  • Director, set and puppet design: Zlatko Bourek
  • Costume design: Diana Kosec – Bourek
  • Music: Davor Rocco
  • Premiere: 26 December 1977

1978

  • Puntar, Frane: THE SWING (GUGALNICA)
  • Puppet Theatre Ljubljana, Slovenia
  • Director: Edi Majaron
  • Set and puppet design: Zlatko Bourek
  • Music: Edi Majaron
  • Premiere: 4 April 1978, LGL — Marionete

1982

  • Shakespeare, William — Stoppard, Tom: A FIFTEEN MINUTE HAMLET

  • &TD Theatre, Zagreb
  • Translation and adaptation: Damir Munitić
  • Music: Neven Frangeš
  • Direction, set design, costume and puppet design: Zlatko Bourek
  • Premiere: 9 January 1982

  • Nazor, Vladimir: LITTLE RED RIDING HOOD (CRVENKAPICA)

  • Trešnja Theatre, Zagreb
  • Adapted by: Drago Britvić and Joško Juvančić
  • Director: Joško Juvančić
  • Set design, costume design and puppet animation: Zlatko Bourek
  • Choreography: Silvija Hercigonja
  • Puppets: Jaroslava Hoška
  • Music: Srećko Zubak
  • Preview: 17 April 1982 / Premiere: 24 September 1982

  • Štok, Izidor Vladimirovič: THE DIVINE COMEDY (BOŽESTVENNAJA KOMEDIJA)

  • Puppet Theatre Ljubljana, Slovenia
  • Translation: Milan Jesih
  • Dramatizacija i Dramaturgy: Matjaž Loboda
  • Direction, set design, costume and puppet design: Zlatko Bourek
  • Music: Bojan Adamič
  • Premiere: 13 November 1982

1983

  • Držić, Marin: THE MISER (SKUP)

  • Comedy
  • Zagrebačko gradsko kazalište Komedija i Festivalski dramski ansambl Dubrovačkih ljetnih
  • igara
  • Adapted from Marin Držić by Zlatko Bourek and Joško Juvančić
  • Directors: Zlatko Bourek and Joško Juvančić
  • Set design: Zlatko Bourek
  • Costume design: Diana Kosec – Bourek
  • Puppet design: Zlatko Bourek
  • Sculptor-puppet maker: Stjepan Gračan
  • Orchestration: Darko Kolar
  • Music: Jaroslav Kubiček
  • Premiere: 16 & 17 July 1983, Dubrovnik Summer Festival, Gundulićeva poljana

1984

  • Ford, John: ‘T IS PITY SHE’S A WHORE

  • Drama
  • Croatian National Theatre, Zagreb
  • Translation: Branka Kamenski and Zdenko Novački
  • Director: Georgij Paro
  • Dramaturgy: Sanja Ivić
  • Set design: Jozef Ciller
  • Costume design: Doris Kristić
  • Music: Neven Frangeš
  • Puppet design: Zlatko Bourek
  • Premiere: 29 March 1984

  • Grabowski, Jan: THE WOLF AND THE GOATLINGS (WIŁK I KOŹLĘTA)

  • Trešnja Theatre, Zagreb
  • Translation: Vladimir Gerić
  • Director: Edi Majaron
  • Set design, costume and puppet design: Zlatko Bourek
  • Choreography: Silvija Hercigonja
  • Music: Pero Gotovac
  • Preview: 30 October 1984 / Premiere: 2 November 1984

1986

  • Mrkšić, Borislav: THE GOLDEN APPLE (OD ZLATA JABUKA)

  • Puppet play in two parts based on motifs from folk tales
  • Zagreb Puppet Theatre
  • Dramatization: Borislav Mrkšić
  • Directors: Joško Juvančić and Zlatko Bourek
  • Set and puppet design: Zlatko Bourek
  • Music: Arsen Dedić
  • Pre-preview: 16 April 1986 / Preview: 17 April 1986

  • Hadžić, Fadil: THE GRAND SPECTACLE (GRAND SPEKTAKL)

  • Satirical Theatre Kerempuh, Zagreb
  • Direction, set design, costume design and puppets: Zlatko Bourek
  • Puppet animation: Đuro Roić
  •  Music: Zvonko Presečki
  • Preview: 23 January 1987, Noćna scena

1987

  • Theophrastus: NEWSMONGERING OR THE FAVOURITE JOB IN THE WORLD (OGOVARANJE ILITI NAJDRAŽI POSAO NA SVIJETU)

  • A play in one part
  • Based on Theophrastus’ ON MORAL CHARACTERS (ĒTHIKOI KHARAKTĒRES)
  • Zagreb Puppet Theatre
  • Translation: Mario Čečuk
  • Dramatization, direction and music selection: Edi Majaron
  • Performed by: Ivica Barišić
  • Set and puppet design: Zlatko Bourek
  • Premiere: 26 February 1987

  • Aristophanes: LYSISTRATA

  • Puppet Theatre Ljubljana, Slovenia
  • Translation: Fran Bradač
  • Direction and dramaturgy: Edi Majaron
  • Set and costume design, puppet and light design: Zlatko Bourek
  • Choreographer: Damir Zlatar Frey
  • Music: Edi Majaron
  • Premiere: 13 December 1987

  • Chekhov, Anton: A MARRIAGE PROPOSAL & ON THE HARMFUL EFFECTS OF TOBACCO (PREDLOŽENIE & O VREDE TABAKA)

  • Trešnja Theatre, Zagreb
  • Adapted by: Zlatko Bourek
  • Music: Arsen Dedić.
  • Direction, set and puppet design: Zlatko Bourek
  • Costume design: Diana Kosec – Bourek
  • Premiere: 17 December 1987

1988

  • Shakespeare, William: THE TEMPEST

  • Duško Radović Theatre, Belgrade
  • Director: Edi Majaron
  • Set, costume and puppet design: Zlatko Bourek and Gordana Krebelj
  • Music: Georg Friedrich Händel
  • Premiere: 2 September 1988

  • Unknown 13th century French author: MONASTIC PLEASURES (SAMOSTANSKI UŽICI)

  • Romantic comedy
  • &TD Theatre, Zagreb
  • Translation: Ivan Kušan
  • Dramaturgical editing: B. D., A. S., V. Z.
  • Adapted by: Božidar Violić
  • Director: Božidar Violić
  • Assistant director, set and costume design and puppets: Zlatko Bourek
  • Music: Igor Savin
  • Premiere: 19 & 20 November 1988, &TD

  • Krilić, Zlatko: LET’S PLAY WITH PUPPETS (ZAIGRAJMO Z LUTKAMI)

  • Puppet Theatre Ljubljana, Slovenia
  • Translation: Nina Skrbinšek
  • Dramaturgy: Milosav Marinović
  • Director: Ljubomir Draškić
  • Set, costume and puppet design: Zlatko Bourek
  • Music: Vojislav Kostić
  • Premiere: 9 December 1988

  • Šotola, Jiří: TODAY, THE FIRST AND ONLY TIME OR CHICKEN ON THE SPIT (DNES POPRVÉ A POUZE JEDENKRÁT ANEB KUŘE NA ROŽNI)

  • Trešnja Theatre, Zagreb
  • Translation: Dagmar Ruljančić
  • Director: Joško Juvančić
  • Dramaturgy: Dagmar Ruljančić
  • Set design: Persida Žutinić
  • Costume design: Ruta Knežević
  • Puppets: Zlatko Bourek
  • Choreography: Srđan Sorić
  • Music: Srđan Dedić
  • Premiere: 11 December 1988

1989

  • Kilian, Barbara: A QUARREL IN THE COURTYARD (STREIT IM HOF)

  • Play in one part
  • Zagreb Puppet Theatre, Zagreb
  • Translated and adapted by: Radovan Milanov
  • Directors: Siegfrid Heinzmann and Zlatko Bourek
  • Set and puppet design: Zlatko Bourek
  • Music: Dieter Reppenhagen
  • Preview: 18 June 1989 / Premiere: 20 June 1989

  • RIGOLETTO

  • Melodrama based on motifs from Victor Hugo and Francesco Maria Piave
  • Hans Wurst Nachfahren, Berlin
  • Director and puppet designer: Zlatko Bourek
  • Dramaturgy: Irena Vrkljan and Benno Meyer-Wehlack
  •  Costume design: Diana Kosec – Bourek
  • Music: Butze Fischer
  • Premiere: 11 November 1989

1990

  • Držić, Marin: DUNDO MAROJE

  • Comedy
  • Marin Držić Theatre, Dubrovnik
  • Adapted by: Dalibor Foretić
  • Epilogue by: Luko Paljetak
  • Direction, set and puppet design: Zlatko Bourek
  • Costume design: Diana Kosec – Bourek
  • Music: Paola Dražić-Zekić
  • Premiere: 14 July 1990, Dubrovnik Summer Festival, Music School park

  • Killian, Barbara: A QUARREL IN THE COURTYARD (STREIT IM HOF)

  • Puppet play in one part
  • Zagreb Puppet Theatre, Zagreb
  • Translation: Marija Katičić-Horvat
  • Epilogue by: Luko Paljetak.
  • Direction, set and puppet design: Zlatko Bourek
  • Music selection: Mirko Gruber
  • Premiere: 20 November 1990

1992

  • Unknown 15th century French author: THE FARCE OF MASTER PATHELIN (FARCE DE MAÎTRE PIERRE PATHELIN)

  • Farce
  • Zagreb Youth Theatre / Zlatko Bourek
  • Translation from Old French to Croatian: Vladimir Gerić
  • Translation from Croatian to German: Zvonimir Krkljuš
  • Adaptation of songs from Croatian to German: Maja Oršić
  • Direction, set and puppet design: Zlatko Bourek
  • Puppet costumes: Diana Kosec – Bourek
  • Music: Srećko Zubak
  • Premiere: 6 March 1992

1993

  • Shakespeare, William: THE TAMING OF THE SHREW

  • Hans Wurst Nachfahren, Berlin
  • Translation: Irena Vrkljan and Benno Meyer-Wehlack
  • Directors: Zlatko Bourek and Siegfried Heinzmann
  • Puppet design: Zlatko Bourek.
  • Costume design: Diana Kosec – Bourek
  • Music: Butze Fischer
  • Premiere: 9 October 1993

1994

  • Aralica, Ivan: THE FEAST OF THE GLOW-WORMS (PIR IVANJSKIH KRIJESNICA)

  • Drama
  • Croatian National Theatre, Zagreb
  • Directed and adapted by: Ozren Prohić
  • Dramaturgy: Lada Kaštelan
  • Set, costume and puppet design: Zlatko Bourek
  • Music: Igor Kuljerić
  • Light design: Vladimir Kazda
  • Preview: 14 January 1994, Home of the Croatian Army “Zvonimir,” Zagreb

  • Shakespeare, William: MACBETH

  • Production: Alpe Adria Puppet Festival in collaboration with Teatro Stabile del FVG
  • Adaptation, direction, set and puppet design: Zlatko Bourek
  • Performed by: Massimo Somaglino, Luisa Vermiglio, Luisa De Santi, Fernanda Hrelia
  • Chitarra and Giulio Chiandetti
  • Premiere: 20 July 1994, Gorizia, Castello di Gorizia

  • Bourek, Zlatko: SAINT GEORGE (SVETI JURAJ)

  • Drama
  • Croatian National Theatre, Zagreb
  • Synopsis, direction, masks and costume design: Zlatko Bourek
  • Dramaturgy: Sanja Ivić
  • Set design: Dinka Jeričević
  • Music: Arsen Dedić
  • Orchestration: Sonja Kastl
  • Preview: 29 July 1994, Split Summer Festival

  • Chekhov, Anton: GROTESQUE ONE-ACT PLAYS: THE BEAR, ON THE HARMFUL EFFECTS OF TOBACCO, THE MARRIAGE PROPOSAL (GROTESKE EINAKTER: DER BÄR, ÜBER DIE SCHÄDLICHKEIT DES TABAKS, DER HEIRATSANTRAG)

  • Hans Wurst Nachfahren, Berlin
  • Translation: Elena Gram
  • Direction and puppet design: Zlatko Bourek
  • Costume design: Siegfried Heinzmann.
  • Dramaturgy: Irena Vrkljan and Benno Meyer-Wehlack
  • Music: Rainer Rubbert
  • Premiere: 30 September 1994

1995

  • Calvino, Italo: THE BARON IN THE TREES (BARONE RAMPANTE)
  • Production: Teatro Stabile del FVG in collaboration with Associazione per la Prosa di Pordenone and ERT Ente Regionale Teatrale del FVG
  • Dramaturgy: Antonella Caruzzi
  • Director: Roberto Piaggio
  • Set, costume and puppet design: Zlako Bourek
  • Performed by: Massimo Somaglino, Luisa Vermiglio, Luisa De Santi, Cristina Nadrah
  • Premiere: 3 April 1995, Pordenone, Rosmini Elementary School
  • Shakespeare, William – Kljakovič, Vanča: THE TAMING OF THE SHREW
  • Puppet Theatre Split
  • Direction, costume, set and puppet design: Zlatko Bourek
  • Assistant director and choreographer: Olga Glavina
  • Composer: Bojan Beladović
  • Speech pedagogue: Neva Bulić
  • Preview: 6 October 1995
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  • Vujec, Grga (Dragutin Domjanić) / Hitrec, Hrvoje: PETRICA KEREMPUH AND THE SMART ASS (PETRICA KEREMPUH I SPAMETNI OSEL)
  • Zagreb Puppet Theatre
  • Direction, set and puppet design: Zlatko Bourek
  • Music: Tomica Simović
  • Premiere: 17 June 1995

1996

  • Bourek, Zlatko / Paljetak, Luko: THE RETURN OF THE SOLDIER (POVRATAK VOJAKA)

  • Zagreb Youth Theatre / Theatre troupe “David”
  • Director and puppet designer: Zlatko Bourek
  • Light design: Saša Fistrić
  • Preview: 20 December 1996

Somaglino, Massimo and Gabrielli, Renato: ZITTO MENOCCHIO

  • Director: Renato Gabrielli
  • Set design: Gigi Mattiazzi
  • Puppets: Zlatko Bourek
  • Play: Massimo Somaglino
  • Premiere: Cividale del Friuli, Duomo Courtyard, 1996

1998

  • Molière, Jean-Baptiste Poquelin: THE HYPOHONDRIAC (LE MALADE IMAGINAIRE)

  • Puppet Theatre Ljubljana, Slovenia
  • Translation: Janko Moder
  • Prologue, interplay and epilogue: Boris A. Novak
  • Direction, dramaturgy, set design, costume design and puppets: Zlatko Bourek
  • Music: Gregor Strniša
  • Light design: Zlatko Bourek and Miran Udovič
  • Premiere: 22 April 1998

1999

  • Dekleva, Milan / Bourek, Zlatko: FROM ONE TO ZERO (OD ENA DO NIČ)

  • Puppet Theatre Ljubljana, Slovenia
  • Director and puppet designer: Zlatko Bourek
  • Music: Noni de Gleria
  • Premiere: 6 December 1999

2000

  • Nezāmī di Ganjè: THE SEVEN PRICNESSES (LE SETTE PRINCIPESSE)

  • Production: Festival Marionette e Burattini nelle Valli del Natisone” / Mittelfest
  • Mittelfest – Cividale del Friuli 2000
  • Director: Roberto Piaggio
  • Set, costume and puppet design: Zlako Bourek
  • Premiere: 2000, Cividale del Friuli, Chiesa di S. Maria in Corte. Seven stories (one each night 24 – 30 July 2000)

2001

  • Unknown 14th century author: FLORIO AND BIANCOFIORE (FLORIO E BIANCIFIORE)

  • Production: Festival Marionette e Burattini nelle Valli del Natisone” / Mittelfest
  • Cividale del Friuli
  • Dramaturgy: Antonella Caruzzi
  • Director: Roberto Piaggio
  • Performed by: Serena Di Blasio, Anna Di Lena, Laura Pigozzo, Marcela Serli, Maja Štromar
  • Set and costume design: Zlatko Bourek
  •   Premiere: Cividale del Friuli, Arco Medioevale, 26 July 2001

  • Rozman, Andrej: JOAN OF THE JAMA CASTLE (JAMSKA IVANKA)

  • Puppet Theatre Ljubljana, Slovenia
  • Director: Matjaž Loboda
  • Set, costume and puppet design: Zlatko Bourek
  • Music: Vitja Avsec
  • Premiere 31 March 2001

2005

  • Jarry, Alfred: UBU ROI

  • Croatian National Theatre Split
  • Translation and dramatization: Vladimir Gerić
  • Direction, set and costume design: Zlatko Bourek
  • Orchestration: Olga Glavina
  • Light design: Miroslav Mamić
  • Sound design: Tomislav Marković
  • Premiere: 25 July 2005, Split Summer Festival, Carska poljana

  • Chekhov, Anton / Bourek, Zlatko: THE PROPOSAL (PROSIDBA ILI NE ZOV’ VRAGA)

  • Drama
  • Croatian National Theatre, Zagreb
  • Author and director: Zlatko Bourek
  • Adapted to the Šokac dialect by Dušan Gojić based on Božidar Škritek’s translation
  • Premiere: 20 April 2005

2006

  • Domjanić, Dragutin / Hitrec, Hrvoje: PETRICA KEREMPUH AND THE SMART ASS (PETRICA KEREMPUH I SPAMETNI OSEL)

  • Children’s and puppet stage of the Croatian National Theatre, Varaždin
  • Direction, set and pupet design: Zlatko Bourek
  • Adapted by: Vesna Kosec-Torjanac
  • Premiere: 3 September 2006

  • Paljetak, Luko / Bourek, Zlatko: SAINT BLAISE (SVETI VLAHO, BLASIUS, BLAŽ)

  • Comedy / folk theatre
  • Dubrovnik Summer Festival Drama Ensemble / Marin Držić Theatre, Dubrovnik / Matica hrvatska, Mostar
  • Direction, set and figure design: Zlatko Bourek
  • Verses: Luko Paljetak
  • Music: Paola Dražić Zekić
  • Preview: 15 July 2006, Dani Matice hrvatske, Mostar, BiH
  • Premiere: 24 June 2006, Dubrovnik Summer Festival, Sponza Palace

2007

  • Kosec-Torjanac, Vesna: SAINT NICHOLAS (SVETI MIKULA)

  • Children’s and puppet stage of the Croatian National Theatre, Varaždin
  • Direction, set and puppet design: Zlatko Bourek
  • Costume design: Diana Kosec – Bourek
  • Music: Dragutin Novaković Šarli
  • Premiere: 1 December 2007

2008

  • Vicić, Natalija: REJOICE! (RADUJTE SE)

  • “Licem u lice” Theatre, Split
  • Director: Ratko Glavina
  • Puppets: Zlatko Bourek
  • Premiere: 24 November 2008

2009

  • Based on motifs from Grimm‘s fairy tales: TELL A TALE (PRIČAM TI PRIČU )

  • Children’s Theatre Smješko, Zagreb
  • Director: Swy Skup
  • Dramaturgy: Sanja Ivić
  • Set and costume design: Zlatko Bourek
  • Music: Mario Mirković
  • Premiere: 20 March 2009

  • Bourek, Zlatko / Tonković Dolenčić, Ana: BALTHAZAR AND KOKO THE TENOR (BALTAZAR I TENOR KOKO)

  • Branko Mihaljević Children’s Theatre in Osijek
  • Direction, set and puppet design: Zlatko Bourek
  • Premiere: 10 July 2009, Osijek Summer of Culture

2010

  • Tabori, George: THE SOLE FAILURE OF ADOLF H. (JEDINI NEUSPJEH ADOLFA H.)

  • Based on motifs from George Taborio’s MEIN KAMPF
  • Zagreb Puppet Theatre
  • Translation: Nikica Petrak
  • Adapted for the theatre of freaks by: Zlatko Bourek
  • Direction, figure and head design: Zlatko Bourek
  • Set design: Miljenko Sekulić
  • Figures made by: Gordana Krebelj
  • Music: Davor Rocco
  • Premiere: 6 May 2010

2015

  • Bourek, Zlatko: KEREMPUH AND DEATH (KEREMPUH I SMRT)

  • A play based on Miroslav Krleža’s THE BALLAD OF PETRICA KEREMPUH performed by Bourek’s theatre of figures/theatre of freaks
  • Adapted for the theatre of freaks by: Zlatko Bourek
  • Direction, figure and set design: Zlatko Bourek
  • Preview: 6 July 2015