Budapest Puppet Theatre

The Budapest Puppet Theater has been open since 1949, with its primary venue currently situated at 69 Andrássy út, Budapest. Since then, both children and adults are warmly welcome to their performances, because they have a motto that “the puppet is not the matter of age, but a genre.”

The Budapest Puppet Theater is the biggest institution of its kind in Central-Europe and the oldest professional puppet theater in Hungary. It is open since 1949 and has been performing for its audience with the motto, “the puppet is not the matter of age, but a genre.” The theater's main tasks are to introduce children to the theater and also to make experiments besides keeping the well-established traditions. One can play with puppets in a thousand ways. Since the theatre has been established, they performed with hand and rod puppets hiding behind the screen, dressed up in black velvet to create the perfect illusion with the puppets held out in the light. They have manipulated marionette figures from above, shadow figures from behind, bunraku puppets on the table and giant puppets from inside masks. Fashion changes, traditions are being born and forgotten, but one thing has never changed, the spell of magic of revival of a lifeless animated object for children and adults.

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