Bitolino

Bitolino is an annual children theater festival held in August in organization of the Babec Theater, every year professional chidren theaters from all over the world participate in the festival. The main prize is the Grand Prix for best performance. The attendance for this festival has exceeded 10,000.

Participating theaters

• Tiyatrotem Theater (Istanbul, Turkey) 2011,2012^[1]
• Theater Pan (Lugano, Switzerland) 2012
• Drama and Puppet Theatre (Vratsa, Bulgaria) 2012
• Children's theater at Narva Gate (St. Petersburg,Russia) 2012,2013
• Dodona Theater (Pristina, Kosovo) 2012,2013
• Ariel Theater (Sofia, Bulgaria) 2013
• David Zuazola Puppets Company (Santiago, Chile) 2013
• Bereze Theater (Istanbul, Turkey) 2013
• Youth Theater Sarajevo (Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina) 2013
• Puppet Theatre Shilo (Sofia, Bulgaria) 2011
• Mini Theater (Ljubljana, Slovenia) 2011
• Anton Panov Theater (Strumica, Macedonia) 2012
• The Key Theater (Tel Aviv, Israel) 2014
• Tandarica Animation Theater (Bucharest, Romania) 2014
• Mala Scena Theater (Zagreb, Croatia) 2011,2012,2013,2014

Jury members

• Bojana Artinovska-Trpcheska (Artist) 2014
• Valdet Rama (Director/Manager of Dodona Theater) 2014
• Boris Chorevski (Actor)-2014
• Sunchica Unevska (Journalist)-2013
• Şehsuvar Aktaş (Actor) – 2013
• Jasmina Vasileva (Actor)-2013
• Nada Kokotovich (Director) – 2012
• Petar Mirchevski (Actor) – 2012
• Aneta Blazevska (Journalist) – 2012

Grand Prix for the Best Performance

Grand Prix for Best Performance is the only award of the festival and is awarded to the best performance from of the official competition the award is decided by three-member international jury chosen from among world-renowned theatre artist and theoreticians. Laureates:

• 2012 – Tiyatrotem Theater (Istanbul, Turkey) for the performance We can't go on like this
• 2013 – David Zuazola Puppets Company (Santiago, Chile) for the performance Dirty Wing^[2]
• 2014 – Mala Scena Theater (Zagreb, Croatia) for the performance Funny Monster ^[3]

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