Story About a Homeless Man and His Dog

At the Travno Stage of the Zagreb Puppet Theater the performance of Timbuktu will be showing from the beginning of October. This is a touching story about the relationship between two homeless creatures, a man and his dog. If you happen to come to the performance alone, it doesn't mean you will leave alone. At this show you have the chance to get two things – artistic enjoyment and man's best friend.

Have you ever wondered what it would be like if dogs could talk, especially stray dogs?! What would they have to say about this world? Timbuktu is a performance produced by Montažstroj based on the book by the same name written by Paul Auster. It is an unusual love story about the relationship between a homeless man and a dog. In reality, it is a story about all social outcasts that are at the edge of the social order. At the same time it tells the story about people who have been abandoned and the neglect for those who live near us but we are indifferent toward them because they are not from our social circles.
 Stories about these types of current topics cannot finish with happy endings, but they can have a happy result for the leading actors, and those are 12 dogs from the animal shelter. That is to say that the members of the audience are invited to adopt the dogs and in that way contribute to that picture of a happy world and get themselves a true friend.
The performance is an international co-production with the DasArts Art Academy in the Netherlands and is supported by the City Office for Education, Culture and Sports, the City Office for Agriculture and Forestry and the City Office for Health, Labor, Social Protection and War Veterans.
The performances will be held until October 19th.