The Big Bang

by Zvi Sahar / Itim Ensemble

This work of Zvi Sahar and PuppetCinema for young audiences is a collaboration between Itim Ensemble with the Lithuanian Klaipeda Puppet Theatre that was born just before and during the pandemic. The work has two sister productions, one based in Tel Aviv and one in Klaipeda (Lithuania) and is Zvi Sahar’s 5th work in the distinctive style of PuppetCinema. 

The piece is actually the prequel of Planet Egg; it set in a city made of electronic waste where each show opens with smashing of computers, creating little ‘Big Bang’s that will evolve into new lives and worlds: motherboards into cities, electric cables into underwater worlds, and electronic particles into living creatures.  

In this new-futuristic era we follow the rechargeable creatures -  a little robot and it’s dog - but as their society thrives, with busy cities and nonstop energy consumption, an event that never happened in their metal-plastic world threatens their lives - rain.

How will this metal-electronic world react to water? Will the robot and it’s dog survive? Could they have been more aware to the warnings?

The work raises questions we should all be concerned with, hyperconsumption, waste, global warming - and tries to be yet another wake up sign for humanity.

For booking performances in Europe, please contact Klaipėda Puppet Theatre
Agnė Pulokaitė at agne.magica@gmail.com or klaipedosleles@gmail.com