Performance Program
Indoor Performances
A special stage for world puppetry unfolding all across Chuncheon!
Experience globally acclaimed productions right here in Chuncheon.
5.23.(Fri) - 5.25.(Sun)
Chuncheon Puppet COCO Theater
[Spain] VIDA
Javier Aranda
Is this magic? No, it's theater! A story about life unfolding from just Javier Aranda's two hands. [VIDA] fills the theater with comedy and emotion for 55 minutes. We promise you won't be able to take your eyes off his hands for even a single minute.
- Dates
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5.23.(Fri) 10:30 | 19:30 (55mins)
5.24.(Sat) 12:00 | 15:00 (55mins)
5.25.(Sun) 11:00 | 14:00 (55mins)
- Ages
- 8 +
5.23.(Fri)
Chuncheon Puppet BAU Theater
[Italy] Duck Death Tulip
La Capra Ballerina
Duck Death and Tulip draws on simplicity to explore life’s profound themes. In a room without walls, a floating bed and minimal props create a poetic stage where a duck meets Death. Through ethereal visuals and fluid puppetry, the show reflects on mortality with tenderness and grace.
- Dates
- 5.23.(Fri) 13:00 | 16:00 (45mins)
- Ages
- 15 +
5.23.(Fri), 5.24.(Sat)
Chuncheon Culture and Arts Center
[USA&Norway] Dead as a Dodo
Wakka Wakka Productions
"Dead as a Dodo” is an original puppet show with the underground world as background. The story asks the audience a question about the possibilities of life and the reason behind it, unfolding fantasies bringing the audience back to the past and peeking into the future. The show is
intended to entertain and touch the hearts of every age and generation.
- Dates
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5.23.(Fri) 10:30 | 19:30 (75mins)
5.24.(Sat) 13:00 (75mins)
- Ages
- 4 +
5.24.(Sat), 5.25.(Sun)
Hybrid Arts Business Center B1
[Uruguay] TRAPOS
Coriolis teatro de objetos
Coriolis teatro de objetos presents a poignant wordless performance about three old men and a dog sharing a year around a city bench. Using puppets and objects, the show portrays changing seasons and daily moments. Death, a peculiar character, stalks them. They strive to evade, confront, and ignore Death to continue living. This touching play explores human fragility and the power of companionship—all without words.
- Dates
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5.24.(Sat) 11:30 | 16:00 (45mins)
5.25.(Sun) 11:30 | 15:00 (45mins)
- Ages
- 4 +
5.25.(Sun), 5.26.(Mon)
Chuncheon Puppet Theater
[Indonesia] A Bucket of Beetles
Papermoon Puppet Theatre
A story of beetles that began in the tales of a 4-year-old child. Puppets born from the drawings of that very child. And the child himself appears in A Bucket of Beetles. A tale of a 4-year-old's imagination and innocence, highlighting the friendship between nature and humans.
- Dates
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5.25.(Sun) 19:30 (50mins)
5.26.(Mon) 10:30 | 14:30 (50mins)
- Ages
- All
5.26.(Mon), 5.27.(Tue)
Festival Theater Momzit
[France] KAZU dans la nuit
Cie SINGE DIESEL
'KAZU dans la nuit' invites you into the world of Juan Perez Escala, director of Cie Singe Diesel, by faithfully recreating his puppet-making workshop on stage. A heartwarming performance that portrays Kazu's love story through puppetry, music, and live drawing.
- Dates
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5.26.(Mon) 16:00 | 19:30 (60mins)
5.27.(Tue) 10:30 (60mins)
- Ages
- 6 +
5.27.(Tue)
Chuncheon City Hall, 1F Confernce Room
[Canada] Epidermis Circus
SNAFU
A playful puppet cabaret unfolds live on stage!
More than just a puppet show, Epidermis Circus is a wildly original performance that transforms traditional puppetry into a live puppet film—created in real time onstage using only a camera, bare hands, a face, and everyday objects.
More than just a puppet show, Epidermis Circus is a wildly original performance that transforms traditional puppetry into a live puppet film—created in real time onstage using only a camera, bare hands, a face, and everyday objects.
- Dates
- 5.27.(Tue) 17:00 | 19:30 (75mins)
- Ages
- 19 +
5.27.(Tue), 5.28.(Wed)
Chuncheon Puppet COCO Theater
[France] Don't wait for me...
Snow on the eyelashes Company
A world of imagination where puppetry and animation merge.
A lovely, fairy-tale-like story where the imagined world takes shape on stage, intertwining the realms of imagination and reality through animated puppets and puppetry.
A lovely, fairy-tale-like story where the imagined world takes shape on stage, intertwining the realms of imagination and reality through animated puppets and puppetry.
- Dates
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5.27.(Tue) 13:30 | 16:00 (40mins)
5.28.(Wed) 12:00 | 17:00 (40mins)
- Ages
- 6 +
5.28.(Wed), 5.29.(Thu)
Festival theater MOMZIT
[KoreaXJapan] Puppet of blue
ArtstageSAN & ACO Okinawa
'Blue Hair' is a story of a mysterious being meeting
a human picturing life, death and hope. Staged on the ocean and nature, the story delivers the philosophic message bringing the originator, Old female diver, the occupation forces and the Guardian Figure 'Blue Hair' back and forth between reality and fantasy.
- Dates
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5.28.(Wed) 13:00 | 19:30 (50mins)
5.29.(Thu) 13:00 (50mins)
- Ages
- 6 +
5.28.(Wed), 5.29.(Thu)
Chuncheon Culture and Arts Center
[France] ASCENSION
SITIO
Ascension portrays a man living at the foot of the highest tower. Once successful on the 88th floor, he has fallen due to insider misconduct. Haunted by guilt, longing for redemption and Barbara's love, he's accompanied by Horace—an imaginary elephant providing comfort. Through puppetry, physical theater, and New Magic, Ascension explores ambition, spirituality, and the power of imagination.
- Dates
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5.28.(Wed) 19:30 (65mins)
5.29.(Thu) 19:30 (65mins)
- Ages
- 14 +
5.31.(Sat), 6.1.(Sun)
Chuncheon Puppet Theater
[KoreaXCroatia] Floral Coma
KOREATIA
The story of Marie, a girl who falls into a deep sleep to escape her shattered everyday life during the chaos of war.
A Co-Production by Korea and Croatia, a 14-Month Journey!
Against the backdrop of Resignation Syndrome, a coma state seen in refugee children and adolescents. KOREATIA presents the puppet show 'Floral Coma' to all those living through daily battles in a war-torn world
A Co-Production by Korea and Croatia, a 14-Month Journey!
Against the backdrop of Resignation Syndrome, a coma state seen in refugee children and adolescents. KOREATIA presents the puppet show 'Floral Coma' to all those living through daily battles in a war-torn world
- Dates
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5.31.(Sat) 19:30 (60mins)
6.1.(Sat) 13:00 | 16:00 (60mins)
- Ages
- 7 +
5.24.(Sat), 5.25.(Sun)
Festival Theater Momzit
[KoreaXMongolia] When we bite AARUUL
Project YEON
The moment you bite into AARUUL, the distant past of Mongolia unfolds before your eyes! A heartwarming tale of children who share their loneliness and discover courage!
- Dates
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5.24.(Sat) 12:00 | 16:00 (60mins)
5.25.(Sun) 13:00 (60mins)
- Ages
- 5 +