[4][5] In 1996, the first Croatian president Franjo Tuđman awarded the founders Vitomir Lončar and Ivica Šimić with the Order of Danica with the figure of Marko Marulić for special merits to culture.

[1][11][3] The couple's first show - Pričalo i Malena (Blumen der Phantasie – Storyman and Tina) played in Munich, at the invitation of Jürgen Flugge, director of the Schauburg theatre, in April 1987.

[12][3] The Mala Scena Theatre officially opened in December 1989, with the play Kraljevna na zrnu graška (The Princess and the Pea).

Professor Habunek gave great impetus to the theatre with the staging of two plays: Dvostruka nevjera in 1990 and Letice & Ljublist in 1992.

Its shows treat such themes as the "history of friendship between a man and a musical instrument,"[13] crying in children and the problems they go through at school.