“Crescent Moon Bear” by ParaMana Puppet Theatre

“There are things that can be seen only through the eyes of a soldier. It is only he that knows how it is like…he and his loved ones who long for his return”

The show is based on the Japanese story Tsuki no Waguma, – The Crescent Moon Bear.
By using three dimensional shadow theatre techniques, an originally hand-made projector, live narration and live electronic music we travel back in time to the Trench War and to its irreversible consequences.  “The Crescent Moon Bear” is a dark fairy tale for teenagers that talks about courage and persistence, loss and pain, life and death, sensibility and love, and moreover it talks about a little child’s adventurous journey trying to save her father’s soul.

ParaMana Puppet Theatre
ParaMana Puppet Theatre is composed by six individuals that derive from various artistic backgrounds: creative writing, painting, theatre, arts, music and poetry. All of us have the common purpose to share our artistic knowledge and our sensibilities for the experimentation and expansion of Puppet Theatre in Greece. Our main motif is the love that each of us nourishes for his art and the instinctive interest to share with the public our thoughts, and concerns through this unique medium that is the Puppet.

We experiment, we discover, we learn and enrich our techniques every day. But above all we travel! This is our way to escape from the repetitive reality of every day life in a city: by drifting away from the unconsciousness of dreams, to the realism and reality of life. What a beautiful and interesting game that is: to be alert!

From 2007 ParaMana Puppet Theatre organises workshops of construction and animation for adults and children and builds puppets, masks and set design for other theatre companies in Greece. ParaMana Puppet Theatre performs in theatres and in the streets and until now, it has created three shows: Femme Squelette, 02-02, and The Crescent Moon Bear.
ParaMana Puppet Theatre is experimenting on various puppet techniques: Bunraku, Human Size Puppets, Three dimensional Shadow Theatre, rod puppets and table top puppets.
The company has performed in various venues and festivals in Greece and abroad:
International Puppet and Mime Festival in Kilkis – Greece, Imagini dell’interno in Pinerolo – Italy, Cultural Festival of demos Kazantzakis – Crete, MCF Michael Cacoyannis Foundation – Athens, Epi Kolono Theatre – Athens and in the streets of Thessaloniki, Crete, Patras, Athens etc.