Spejbl and Hurvínek Theatre () is a

puppet theatre Puppetry is a form of theatre or performance that involves the manipulation of puppets – inanimate objects, often resembling some type of human or animal figure, that are animated or manipulated by a human called a puppeteer. Such a performan ...

located in

Prague Prague ( ; ) is the capital and List of cities and towns in the Czech Republic, largest city of the Czech Republic and the historical capital of Bohemia. Prague, located on the Vltava River, has a population of about 1.4 million, while its P ...

, Czechia. Founded in 1930 by puppeteer Josef Skupa, it was the first professional puppeteer's stage in

Czechoslovakia Czechoslovakia ( ; Czech language, Czech and , ''Česko-Slovensko'') was a landlocked country in Central Europe, created in 1918, when it declared its independence from Austria-Hungary. In 1938, after the Munich Agreement, the Sudetenland beca ...

. It was named after the puppets Hurvínek and Spejbl.

Helena Štáchová Helena Štáchová (18 November 1944, Prague – 22 March 2017, Prague) was a Czech puppeteer, voice actress and playwright. Štáchová served as the head and director of the Spejbl and Hurvínek Theatre (S+H), which opened in 1930 as former C ...

, a puppeteer who played the roles of and in the company, served as the head of Spejbl and Hurvínek Theatre from 1996 until her death, in 2017, following (1956/1966–1996) and Skupa himself (1930–1956). In 2008, a court awarded Štáchová the right to use the theatre's namesake puppets after an eight-year legal dispute, which allowed the establishment to continue its programs.

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* Theatres in Prague Puppet theaters Puppetry in the Czech Republic Theatre of the Czech Republic Theatres completed in 1930 1930 establishments in Czechoslovakia 20th-century architecture in the Czech Republic {{europe-theat-stub