Flow of giant puppets at Móra Park

Kövér Béla Puppet Theater invites everyone interested to meet in front of the Móra Ferenc Museum on Sunday, April 7 at 4 p.m., to meet new, never-before-seen giant puppets.

In the first week of April, the Kövér Béla Puppet Theater hosts puppet makers and puppet designers from all the country's puppet theaters, who create giant puppets within the framework of a four-day work process, based on legends about the origin of the Tisza River.

The puppet theater invites Szeged families and everyone interested to a playful, community event, where the puppeteers will create the Tisza with the completed puppets and the audience's participation.

The river, created jointly, will be changed by the appearance of the giant puppets: a donkey arrives and marks the line of the Tisza river bed, which makes it really winding. Two beautiful, tearful girls, the Blonde Tisza and the Black Tisza enter, but even giant bears appear, shaking the river's flow.

The participation of the audience will be essential, as they will create the river Tisza, which, at the appearance of the giant puppets becomes sometimes wild, sometimes quiet.

Sketches provided by Kövér Béla Puppet Theater

The arrival of the puppets will be accompanied by Ámos Gajda on the saxophone. Brass players of the Szeged Symphony Orchestra, conducted by Gergely Dubóczky, will provide the background music of the Tisza.

The event is to be held on Sunday, April 7, at 4 p.m., at Móra Park (in front of the Móra Ferenc Museum). Entry is free.

Featured image only for illustration. Giant puppets at the 2023 Children's Day event of Kövér Béla Puppet Theater at Móra Park. Photo: Szilvia Molnar / Szegedify