The Fairy Tale Theater on Moscow. Fairy tale puppet theater in St. Petersburg

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The Fairy Tale Theater at 121 Moskovsky Prospekt staged its first performance back in 1944, on December 31, when the Great Patriotic War was still going on in Leningrad, recently liberated from the blockade. From now on, on New Year's Eve, the theater celebrates its birthday.

Three fairies

War-weary and unlearned to laugh children needed positive emotions and joy. Three Leningrad actresses who returned from the war understood and felt this with all their hearts, so in incredibly difficult conditions they organized a fairy tale puppet theater. These three sorceresses are: Ekaterina Chernyak - the first director and director of the theatre, Elena Gilodi and Olga Lyandzberg - actresses.

The theater gained strength and expanded in the years after the war, although it received state status 12 years later, but for now it lived only at the expense of the enthusiasm and creative potential of the creators. Only in 1956 he was given a rehearsal room at 12 Vladimirsky Prospekt, but without an auditorium,therefore, the fairy tale puppet theater continued to move from place to place, which is why its performances were known and were successful not only in the Leningrad region and the city itself, but also in other cities of the country.

A new stage in the life of the theater

In the early 1970s, the theater troupe was headed by an experienced puppet director Yuri Eliseev. Together with the artist Nelli Polyakova, whom he invited to cooperate, he created many interesting performances, they were successful and received recognition both in our country and abroad.

At the same time, Nikolai Borovkov began his directorial work at the theater. With his arrival, foreign tours of the theater are increasingly organized to show fairy tales to children from different countries, and productions also began to participate and win awards in festivals at the international level.

The Fairy Tale Theater on Moskovsky Prospekt

The main event in the life of the theater took place in November 1986 (on the 22nd), when he finally got his own house with a stage, rehearsal and auditoriums. And Georgy Nikolaevich Turaev, director of the theater from 1965 to 1987, organized and inspired the construction of the building. The architects and authors of the project were T. Ya. Razina, I. P. Kondratyeva, V. V. Ivanov.

And now, 12 years after the laying of the first stone, the Fairy Tale Theater on Moskovsky Prospekt opened its hospitable doors for little art lovers.

The theater troupe today

Artistic director and chief director of the theater today - Igor Ignatiev. The performances themselves have changed to a large extent.performances, from small "away" to large stationary, use modern artistic techniques with sound and light effects.

Artists of the theater - Nelly Polyakova, Anna Ignatieva - are the authors of puppets, costumes, set design. Possessing talent and creative individuality, complementing each other, they create and fill with wonders the fabulously beautiful world of theater.

The Fairy Tale Theater on Moskovsky Prospekt inspires and warms within its walls the troupe of the theater, consisting of 20 actors, almost all of them are diploma winners and laureates of theater awards and competitions. Among them are honored artists of Russia: Emilia Kulikova, Lyudmila Blagoeva, Polina Semenova, Valentin Morozov and others.

Awards

The aspiration of the theater to move forward and not stop there in staging interesting performances was noticed by critics. As a result of this attention, the theater was repeatedly nominated and won in competitions for theater awards. The performance "The Nutcracker and the Mouse King" became the winner of the "Golden Mask" award, and the State Prize of Russia was received by the director and production designer Igor and Anna Ignatiev.

The Fairy Tale Theater at the Moscow Gates has been on tour and at festivals in many countries: Finland, Spain, Turkey, Egypt, Germany, Kuwait and others. On its stage, he hosted puppet theaters in Germany, Bulgaria, Yugoslavia.

Festivals and tours do not distract storytellers and magic artists from creating new scenery and puppets. Theater every yearfairy tales (St. Petersburg) pleases its audience with premieres with an unusual interpretation of classic stories, new bright scenery, and fairy-tale characters of productions sow beauty and harmony, striving for goodness in the souls of little Petersburgers.

Lobby activities

Fabulous atmosphere envelops the viewer immediately, as soon as he has time to cross the threshold of the building. He is met by a kind fairy surrounded by fantastic animals.

The St. Petersburg Puppet Theatre, in addition to its main activities, organized various events in the foyer so that the audience would not get bored before the performances and during the intermission:

- Teachers College students teach kids the art of origami, beading, knitting on the fingers, making rag dolls, drawing. This is on Saturday before the show, which starts at 2 pm.

- On Sunday, at the same time, artists and actors come to a creative meeting with small spectators. They talk about themselves and their ideas, and showcase their own workshops.

- On weekends, everyone gets a magnificent face painting.

- Among other things, excursions are organized in the theater building after the performance, where all the secrets of the birth of the performance are revealed: the guys get acquainted with the work of make-up artists, decorators, props and all those without which the audience will not meet with the beautiful. The theater-goers talk about the process of creating a play, initiate the mystery of making scenery and puppets.

- During the intermission or after the performance, you canrefresh yourself by visiting the buffet, where you can also celebrate children's holidays - from birthday to graduation.

Ticket price

For those who attended the performance, the price of the tour is 150 rubles.

Repertoire

For decades, the troupe has perfected each of its productions, so it has a huge repertory baggage. It is designed for different age groups. Performances for the youngest art lovers (from 3-4 years old) are presented, for example, by the painting "The Cunning Fox", which tells about what can happen to cunning people. This is a kind and naive tale, and will surely be appreciated by a child, just like Masha and the Bear. These productions take no more than 50 minutes in time.

Children from 5 years old will enjoy "Thumbelina", "The Wizard of the Emerald City", the comedy "Cat and Mouse", the farce "The Little Humpbacked Horse". You can also watch productions of "Bluebeard" by Charles Perrault, "From Liverpool Harbor" by Rudyard Kipling, a fantastic production of "Green Blood", "The Tale of Ivan the Lazy Man" based on folklore.

Junior schoolchildren who need more serious performances will be able to see the "Black Hen" - a real Petersburg story, the play "Dwarf Nose" bybased on the tale of Gauf, "Crane Feathers" - a Japanese parable. Since 2013, the play "Elyon. Version 2.0" has entered the repertoire of the theater - this is a fascinating story about the adventures of a fifteen-year-old boy who saved the alien planet Elyon. It was inhabited by various creatures, such as elves, trolls, gnomes, orcs and others, they joined forces against evil monsters.

The musical "The King's Sandwich", which is based on poems by English poets, and "The Circus", a puppet show about the circus, stand apart.

The world of dolls, no doubt, is closest to children who fantasize on the basis of the smallest images and give clear outlines to the fictional characters of their fairy tales. But adults who come along with the children can feel like children for a moment and plunge into the magic of a fairy tale, watching with bated breath the fate of the heroes.