Puppet Show: Chatungla
Chatungla is a wordless puppet show featuring a small circus of animals made entirely from scrap metal and discarded objects. Designed for all ages, it brings recycled materials to life through movement, humor, and visual storytelling.
CHATUNGLA is a puppet theatre performance with no spoken language. The show presents a miniature circus populated by animals built from scrap metal and abandoned everyday objects, transformed into moving sculptures on stage.
Audiences will meet a cast of imaginative creatures, including a friendly penguin made from a can, a dancing giraffe built from a ladder, a playful dog fashioned from a stool, a powerful lion assembled from furniture, and an elegant gazelle formed from a chair. Through movement and visual expression, the animals perform their acts, creating moments that are playful, touching, and sometimes musical.
At a time when daily life revolves around use and disposal, the show highlights the poetic possibilities of recycling and reuse, inviting audiences into the world of CHATUNGLA.
This is a visual, language-free performance that works equally well for children and adults. Its imaginative use of recycled materials turns everyday waste into expressive characters, offering a gentle and engaging way to experience puppetry, movement, and creative storytelling together.
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