Cat, Mouse and Potato

Do you know what happens when a hungry cat meets a hungry mouse and they team up to hunt down a mischievous potato? Who is Chef Peter? Who stole the Sea Queen’s treasure? You’ll learn all this and more, in our original puppet adventure.

Cat, Mouse and Potato is the result of a creative collaboration between social service provider Koniklec Suchomasty and the theatre companies Puppets Beyond Borders and Vzhůru nohama.

Koniklec Suchomasty organises a variety of cultural activities for its clients with mental disabilities, including art workshops, theatre, new circus, etc. Vzhůru nohama has a long track record of theatre-making with mentally disabled performers. Puppets Beyond Borders likes to take on creative challenges that transcend the traditional boundaries of puppet theatre in every possible way. These three organisations joined forces to create a small theatre group in Suchomasty in January 2020. The original puppet production Cat, Mouse and Potato is their first production.

About the company

An independent professional theatre group, Puppets Without Borders began its puppetry adventures during studies at DAMU-KALD (Department of Alternative and Puppet Theater at the Theater Faculty of the Academy of Performing Arts in Prague). PWB started in Mexico in 2001 and today continues everywhere (Prague, Chrudim, Aš, Pilsen and Svitavy but also Slovakia, Germany, Poland, Denmark, Cuba and the United States). PWB has no permanent venue and performs wherever it is invited. In addition to puppet shows, they also organise art and creative puppetry workshops and social theatre projects. Interested in puppets from different points of view, they create for audiences of all ages, social groups nationalities, religions and other categories.