The Train Theater: Street Events

The Train Theater brings fun days and joyful events full of wonderful surprises to communities, festivals, parks and conferences. Street performances are in various styles, combining theater with dance, puppets and music, designed for the whole family.

Royal Street Theater Rosalé and Feivelé´s Wagon The Luft GeScheft Juggling Team A Forest Tale The Music Box Meeting a Make-Up Artist Storyteller One Man Band Magic Peep Show Jack and the Balloons Dragons: There is such a thing! Elvis Extra-Large The Dragon Women Grandma´s Stories

Royal Street Theater

Two actors with a throne and a music box tell stories about kings accompanied by well-loved children's songs as well as various large and small objects: "A Thousand Braids for the King", "The Balloon Tree", "The Enormous Pudding".
Performance: Naomi Pulver and Yonathan Ben Haim
Costume and Stage Design: Nathalia Rosenthal
Recommended for: children from the age of 3 and for the whole family

Rosalé and Feivelé´s Wagon

* Performed in Hebrew, English and French *
A story about two vagabonds who have lost their home and have been left destitute. They now live in a wagon in which they travel on their imaginary journeys to worlds of kings and shadows, skies and forests, mirrors and dreams, to places that are completely unlike the world in which they really live.
Performance: Naomi Pulver and Jonathan Ben Haim
Recommended for: children from the age of 5 and for the whole family

The Luft GeScheft Juggling Team

Performing the "The Joker Dolls"
The Luft GeScheft circus duo performs a laughter-until-tears show of clowning, juggling various objects and many more surprises.
Performance: Tal Ginat and Yuval Roth
Recommended for: the whole family
Time: 45 minutes

A Forest Tale

This is classical Italian legend as puppet theater. Young Maria is searching for the good fairy. On the way she meets heroes from well-known fairy tales; Puss in Boots, the fox from Pinocchio, a deaf horse, a witch and others. Each character leads her in a different direction until Maria finally meets the fairy who grants her one wish.
Performance and manipulation: Yitzhak Pecker
Recommended for: children from 4 years of age and for the whole family.
Time: 25 minutes. (performed twice)

The Music Box

This traveling music box is a colorfully painted organ playing classical music and familiar songs and manipulated by an actor.
Performance and manipulation: Jonathan Ben Haim
Time: 30 minutes, performed twice
Recommended for: the whole family

Meeting a Make-Up Artist

Sigal uncovers the true face of make-up while interacting with the audience. The children experience the process of choosing make-up and being made-up to create a character with moods and expressions, all with a touch of magic.
Make-up Artist: Sigal Nir
Recommended for: children ages 3 and up and for the whole family
Time: approximately 90 minutes

Storyteller

The storyteller relates various tales while developing a fascinating rapport with the audience. The stories are recommended for children of all ages.
Storyteller: Shai Schwartz / Noam Meiri

One Man Band

"I am alone, just one man, but I am whole orchestra; conductor, musicians and even cymbals. If I must, I can even be the audience!"
Musician and Puppeteer: Avi Cohen

Magic Peep Show

This is a magic box in the style of 19th century street theater in which fairy tales can be seen through a peephole, one viewer at a time.
Actress and Puppeteer: Naomi Pulver

Jack and the Balloons

A clown on stilts makes balloons into different shapes and distributes them.

Dragons: There is such a thing!

An outdoor event, that combines stories and songs, accompanied by a music box, a giant dragon puppet, and a variety of mini-dragons.
* may be combined with Dragons-Creation Workshop.
Performance and manipulation: Naomi Pulver and Jonathan Ben Haim
Recommended for: children from the age of 4 and for the whole family
Time: 45 minutes

Elvis Extra-Large

A huge puppet, 5 meters tall, in the image of "The King" - Elvis Presley. Elvis Extra-Large sings and dances for the audience. The amusing atmosphere and the thrilling music invite the audience for a free dance party.
Idea and manipulation: Jack Shvili, Elmar Saraf, Adam Yan Yakin
Recommended for: the whole family
Time: 90 minutes outdoors, with pauses

The Dragon Women

You may choose one of the 2 following performances, according to your event:
1. The Dragon Women - a street/stage performance combining clowning, acrobatics, juggling, drums and dances. The performance is spontaneous in character, with sharp humor, and applies to the happenings of here and now.
2. Illusions - a colorful and fascinating show in the dark, that combines light, fire, movement, and drumming music.
* performances may be combined with a juggling workshop.
Performance and manipulation: Vered Berkowitz and Liat Danon
Recommended for: the whole family
Time: 45 minutes

Grandma´s Stories

A grandma puppet creates a dialog with people passing by, especially children...
Idea, writing, performance and manipulation: Tsipor Frumkin
Directing: Myriam Salzberg
Grandma puppet design: Revital Ariely