Hello, we are Š.E.M. company.
We are an puppet theater company group addressing socio-cultural themes through contemporary forms of puppetry, physical, and visual theater for both children and adult audiences across three platforms: street performances, stage productions, and touring productions. Our goal is to create a safe and peaceful space for audience sensitivity, the development of aesthetic feelings, and critical thinking through our unique poetics, visual language, and building relationships with audiences of all age groups.
We focus on themes that shape the psychological development and functioning of individuals in society or the world that surrounds them. These themes are present in our work for children, youth, and adults. We approach these topics with our specific poetics in both narrative and visual presentation. In our productions, we work with all components equally and playfully.
director, screenwriter, author
MICHAELA ZAJAČKOVÁ
scenographer, graphic designer, pedagouge
MICHAELA DZAMKOVÁ
RENÉ SORÁD
ĽUBOS JANÁK
performer
performer, musician, claun doctor
performer, musician
PATRICIA STEHELOVA
performer
ALŽBETA PALANOVÁ
performer, claun doctor
Where we were..
Festival Atmosféra SK (2019, 2022, 2023, 2024)
Kremnické gags SK (2020, 2022)
SK Living Sculpture Festival (2022)
Slovak Heating Plant SK (2022)
Bratislava City Days SK (2023)
Brak SK (2023)
Mičinský pitvor SK (2022, 2023)
Bratislava Cultural Summer SK (2023)
Spectaculo Interesse CZ (2023)
Blacksphere CZ (2024)
Touches and Connections SK (2024)
Arctic snow CZ (2024)
Bratislava Puppet Theatre
Empire Theatre, Hlohovec
CNK garden, Banská Bystrica
Teatro Colorato, Bratislava
P*AKT Cultural Center, Bratislava
KC Kláštor, Rožňava
A hole in the world, Liptovský Mikuláš
Karol Spišák's old theater in Nitra
T3 Cultural resource
BIBIANA, International House of Art for Children
Piešťany City Library
Bratislava Old Town Library
KC Hviezdne noci, Bytča
Acropolis Cinema, Kremnica
ARTA, Piešťany