• Shows last about an hour, 60 to 70 minutes, a good length for preschoolers
• Performed in Czech, with well-known tales like Hansel and Gretel that kids can follow from the puppets alone
• Box office opens an hour before each show, or buy ahead from the ticket links on the theater's program page

Říše loutek is a marionette theater founded in 1920, playing in the City Library building on Žatecká street since 1928. Its own company stages classic Czech fairy tales, such as Hansel and Gretel (Perníková chaloupka), Dášeňka and Kašpárek in Hell, with string puppets on a traditional stage.

UNIMA, the international puppetry union, was founded here in 1929. Shows are performed in Czech, so the puppets carry the story.