The Key Theatre

"The Boy who had no Fear"

"Baron Munchausen"

The Key Theatre is an Israeli visual children's theatre established in 1998.

The Theatre is a collaboration between theatre actor Avi Zlicha, who previously played in Haifa Theatre and throughout the years specialized in physical theatre by Jacques Lecoq`s method, and Dikla Katz, a playwright and puppeteer, who wrote for Arutz HaYeladim (the Israeli "Children Channel"). Both Zlicha and Katz are graduates of Tel Aviv University, of the Theater department and the Film and TV department respectively. Combining film and theater has led to the creation of a company that employs different theatrical languages for each show.

Throughout the years, the Key Theatre has collaborated on projects with the Israeli Chamber Orchestra, the Renaissance Festival, Haifa Festival, the National Maritime Museum, the Tel-Aviv Museum of Art and many more. It is a member of ASSITEJ and UNIMA. In 2015 Dikla Katz was nominated as the official representative of UNIMA in Israel.^[1]

The Key Theatre also performs around the world. It has performed in Vietnam, Kazakhstan (2012), Macedonia,^[2] Senegal, South Korea,^[3] Bulgaria (won the "Golden Dolphin" Award for worthy debuting)^[4] (2014), Armenia,^[5] Italy (EXPO),^[6] Taiwan, Slovenia, Japan, Kosovo,^[7][8] Norway^[9] and Poland (won the Children's Jury Award) (2015).

Plays

• 1998 - "Treasure Island" - Object Theatre based on R. L. Stevenson`s Book^[10]
• 2000 - "The Orange Shoe" - A Commedia dell'arte musical show
• 2002 - "The Boy who had no Fear" – A tale inspired by the Grimm Brothers using puppetry and paper pop-up
• 2005 - "Baron Munchausen" - A cabaret for two actors and puppets
• 2007 - "El BeBE" - Vaudeville on wheels for two actors and sock puppets
• 2009 - "The Gigantic Turnip" - A Toy Theatre Russian folktale
• 2012 - "When all was Green" - A puppetry play without words inspired by "The Giving Tree" and "The Lorax"

External links

• The Key Theatre website
• Boutique children's theater celebrates 10 years, The Jerusalem Post, 12.5.2007
• Dikla Katz, at the Playwrights Database
• The Key Theatre channel on YouTube
• Dikla Katz in an interview to the Vietnamese TV channel NetViet – VTC 10, on YouTube, 17.9.12
• !CultureBuzz Converses with the key people behind The Key Theatre – about "When all was Green", on YouTube, 2012

References

1. UNIMA Israel, at the UNIMA website
2. Performances from Israel and Romania Bitolino, Tera TV Macedonia 2014
3. When all was Green, Gyeonggi Puppet Festival
4. Golden Dolphin, State Puppet Theatre Varna
5. The Key Theatre in the "Puppets for Peace and Intercultural Dialogue March" - TV article, Shoghakat TV company
6. The Key Theatre Presents: “When all was Green”, Israel @ EXPO Milano
7. The Key Theatre in the Festival in Pristina, Gazeta Tribuna, September 26, 2015
8. Dodona - The Key Teatre, "When All Was Green" - 25 shtator 2015, Dodona Theatre
9. Nina Abrahamsen, Pia and Nora: - We need trees, Budstikka, October 12, 2015.
10. The Key Theatre in the stage versions list of "Treasure Island", in The Robert Louis Stevenson Archive