The puppet show “Ivica and Marica” – Novi Sad Youth Theater will be performed on the stage of the Park Hall on Tuesday, April 7, starting at 6 p.m., as part of the program of this year’s HAPSić.

Author of the text: Teodora Marković
Directed by: Slobodan Ninković
Overall design: Milica Grbić Komazec
Composer: Petar Bursać
Lighting designer: Ratko Jerković

Playing:
Ivica – Aleksa Ilić
Marica – Slavica Vučetić
Mother and Witch – Neda Danilović
The Father and the Black Raven – Saša Latinović

The premiere of the play was on October 17, 2025, and the play has already received its first awards.

“Writing the story of Ivica and Marica, Jakob and Wilhelm Grimm talked about poverty and hunger, the main problem of many families in the 19th century, when it was not unusual for parents to abandon their children, because they could not support them. For many, this fairy tale was very scary, often on the genre border between fairy tale and horror. Although at first glance it is a story about two lost children and an evil witch, in fact it is a story about family, love, fear, temptation and courage.

Courage, which has grown on the foundations of togetherness and empathy, makes it easier to overcome temptations and fear – this is what many old stories teach us, and one of them, the one about Ivica and Marica, is especially instructive in this sense, and it arrives in mid-October in a new guise. The fairy tale “Ivica and Marica” by the Brothers Grimm inspired the actor Slobodan Ninković to create a play of the same name in our theater.” (www.pozoristemladih.co.rs)

Entertaining and artistically sumptuous, the show, which is intended for viewers aged 4 and up, is also attractive for much older theatergoers, like any good show.

You can buy tickets at the price of 5 euros at the ticket office of the Park Hall, as well as online: hercegfestulaznice.me