The
traditional charity performance for children from large
families, boarding schools, orphanages and rehabilitation social
centres of Vologda and the Vologda Region was held in Puppet
Theatre “Teremok” on the 1st of June. All the guests
took part in the fascinating playing programme “Meet the
Puppets”, watched the performance “Tale of The Golden
Fish” (A. S. Pushkin; Director – A. Knyazkov, the Honoured
Artist of Russia; Painter – A. Kardash; Composer – V. Antipin)
and got wonderful presents. The show was organized together with
The Department of Labour and Social Development of the Vologda
Region.
May,
24th is Day of the Slavonic Written Language
and Culture when we remember St. Cyrill and Methodius who
created the Russian alphabet also called “The Cyrillic
alphabet”. This year within the Puppet Festival we’ve organized
the educational interactive theatrical class “Meeting
Letter-Eater (Bukvoezhka)” where children and their
parents got acquainted with the history of the Slavonic Written
Language and even did some unusual letter-exercises!
On May,
8th we arranged the
Holiday for “those who like sweets”. The winners
of Children’s Creative Work Competition “My Favourite Teremok”
were invited there. The children met some charming characters
such as Dunyasha, Manyasha and Slastyona (The Sweet Tooth) and
saw “Tale of The Golden Fish” (A. S. Pushkin; Director –
A. Knyazkov, the Honoured Artist of Russia; Painter – A.
Kardash; Composer – V. Antipin). All the winners got different
awards and prizes. Besides, the children got sweet presents from
the Vologda Confectionery Factory, the regular partner of the
Puppet Festival.
On
the 28-29th of April, 2010,
The Third Children’s Amateur Puppet Theatres’ Festival “The Puppet Land” was held in which children’s
theatrical groups from Vologda, Cherepovets, Arkhangelsk,
Severodvinsk, the settlement of Nikolskoye (The Kostroma
Region), Sosnovyi Bor (The Leningradskaya Region) participated.
The programme of the Festival was saturated and interesting:
puppet shows of different kinds with puppets of different
systems from glove and marionettes to masks were represented
there. All in all there were 8 main categories. Then a
round-table discussion for the leaders of children’s groups was
organized where adults got an opportunity to talk and share
their experience. There also was a theatrical discotheque with
great cheer leaders for the participants of the Festival as well
as an excursion to the Vologda Kremlin and round the ancient
city.
The next
Festival “The Puppet Land” will take place in 2012 and will be
devoted to the theme “My Dear Motherland”. You can apply from
September, 1st, 2011 till March, 31st,
2012.
According
to the programme of exchanging tours Vologda Regional Puppet
theatre “Teremok” visited the city of Arkhangelsk in April.
Three performances were given: a vaudeville-comedy for adults
called “Hanuma” (A.Tsagareli), a tale about a
naughty bear-cub “Mishuk” (A.Knyazkov, K.
Cherkasskaya; based on V. Belov’s book) and “Teremok” (S. Marshak). A week later Puppet Theatre “Teremok” welcomed the
Arkhangelsk Regional Puppet theatre in Vologda. The guests also
brought three shows: for adults “Puppet Show-booth”, “Don
Juan in Venice” (D. Lohov, S. Loginova), for children –
the buffo-story “Bear-cub Rim-tim-ti” (Y.
Vilkovskii) and an interactive game based on the fairy-tale “Hare, Fox and Cockerel” (N. Shuvalov).
On the 16 – 21 March, 2010 Vologda Regional Puppet theatre “Teremok” took part in the VIII
International Puppet Theatres’ Festival “Ant-hill” (“Muraveinik”)
(The city of Ivanovo). This Festival is held every two years. It
is one of the most interesting Puppet Theatres’ festivals in
Russia. “Ant-hill” gives the participants and guests a unique
opportunity to see the best Puppet Shows not only from Russia
but also from foreign countries. The puppeteers from Vologda
showed “Mishuk or Tale of The Naughty Bear-cub”,
based on V. Belov’s book, to the audience and colleagues in
Ivanovo. (Playwrights - A. Knyazkov, the Honoured Artist
of Russia and Kira Cherkasskaya; Director – Andrei
Knyazkov, Painter – Aleksandr Alekseev, the Honoured Art Worker
of Republic Hakasia; Composer – Vladimir Antipin). The
performance was a great success. Taking part in this Festival
has already become a good tradition for Vologda Regional Puppet
theatre “Teremok”.
On
the 22nd of March, 2010 Vologda Regional Puppet theatre “Teremok”
participated in the International Festival of Puppet Shows
“Moscow Holidays” with the mono-performance “Dyuimovochka”
(“Thumbelina”) based on the tale of H.-Ch. Andersen (Director –
Igor Ignatiev, the Honoured Art Worker of Russia; Painter – Anna
Ignatieva, the Honoured Art Worker of Russia; Composer – Mikhail
Bebrish). The performer was Elena Tadlova, the Honoured Artist
of Russia.
The
theatrical Prize “The Working Horse” was given on
the 21st of March, the International Day of
Puppeteers, on the stage of Vologda Regional Puppet theatre
“Teremok”. The actor who has played the biggest number of
performances during the year gets this prize. Valentin
Ovsyannikov, Laureate of the Professional Theatrical
Prize named after A. V. Badaev, was the winner. He took part in
155 shows in 2009.
Some actors of Vologda Regional
Puppet theatre “Teremok” were awarded with different prizes on
the 27th of March, the International Day of Theatre.
The ceremony took place in the Drama Theatre. Tatyana
Suhanova, the actress of “Teremok”, Laureate of the
Theatrical Prize named after K. P. Osipova, became the
prize-winner for “Many years of brilliant and devoted work
for children”.
Marina
Mizina, Laureate of the
Professional Theatrical Prize “The Brilliant Hand”, got the
prize for the role of Hanuma in the play of A. Tsagareli as “the best role of the year”. This prize is established
by the Puppet Theatre.
Pinocchio
from the show “Pinocchio” (N. Shuvalov), played by Natalia
Burlova, became the prize-winner as “Children’s
Favourite”. Little children usually choose the winner
when they vote for their favourite fairy-tale character after
each performance.
There
was a first-night show “Tale of The Golden Fish” (A. S. Pushkin;
Director – A. Knyazkov, the Honoured Artist of Russia; Painter –
A. Kardash; Composer – V. Antipin) on the 7th of
March, 2010 in Vologda Regional Puppet theatre “Teremok”.
Vologda
Regional Puppet theatre “Teremok” took part in the XVII
All-Russian Theatrical Festival named after A. S. Pushkin which
was organized from the10th till the 15th of February, 2010 in
the city of Pskov. The Puppet Show was included in the programme
of the Festival for the first time in its 16-year history. The
puppeteers from Vologda were invited with the performance “Tale of Tsar Saltan” (A. S. Pushkin; Director – Igor
Ignatiev, the Honoured Art Worker of Russia; Painter – Anna
Ignatieva, the Honoured Art Worker of Russia; Composer – Dmitrii
Gusev; Choreographer – Natalia Petrova-Rudaya). This performance
has already become the Prize Winner of different International
Festivals.
On March, 7 there was a premier for adult
spectators in the Vologda Regional Puppet theatre "Teremok".
"CONCERTO GROSSO" is one of the biggest projects of the
puppet theatre.
The performance's author and producer is Alexander Borok,
Honoured Artist of Russia. He defines the play's style
as "a merry holiday for adults with puppets". Almost all
the actors' group is engaged in the performance. Our
actors play new unexpected roles. Besides numerous
rehearsals they studied to dance step (ballet master -
Valery Kuznetsov) and sing (vocal teacher - Tatyana
Selyanina).
"ÑONCERTO GROSSO" translated from Italian means "A big
concert".
Various mysterious events happen on the stage: Charlie
Chaplin meet Faust, little swam dance step, Motsart,
Betkhoven and Chaikovsky play chansons, and merry
Russian matreshka dolls greet spectators with an unusual
dance. And these are not all surprises!
More than 80 puppets including trick ones were created
for the performance. A whole team of talented artists
worked on their creation. The performance's design was
made by Valery Bakharev (Yekaterinberg), the puppets'
sculptors - Maria Ivanova (St. Petersburg, marionettes
were created by a legend of puppet theatres - Nikolay
Borovkov, Honoured Worker of Art (St. Petersburg).
The concert for adults in the puppet theatre is very
rare and complicated but required by everyone. The
premier of the Vologda puppetees is a great event in the
theatrical life and not only for our region: the Vologda
theatre with "ÑONCERTO GROSSO" is invited to perform in
the Moscow International Music House this autumn.
In October the Vologda Regional Puppet Theatre “Teremok”
participated in the International festival of puppet
theatres “Interlyalka” in Uzhgorod (Ukraine). The Puppet
theatres of Russia, Belorussia, Bulgaria, Poland,
Rumania, Serbia, Slovakia, China, Ukraine, and
Montenegro took part in the festival. The Vologda
puppeteers represented the performance “The Fairytale
about Tsar Saltan” staged by Igor Ignatiev, Honoured Art
Worker of Russia. The performance was very successful.
The jury and spectators of the festival highly
appreciated our actors’ professionalism and talents. The
Vologda Regional Puppet Theatre “Teremok” became the
winner in nomination “Actor group”.
In September the Vologda Regional Puppet Theatre “Teremok” took part
in the International festival of puppet theatres “Petrushka
the Great” in Yekaterinburg. Twenty-three theatres from
six countries - Russia, Ukraine, Poland, Portugal,
Spain, Japan- came to the festival. Our theatre showed
the performance “The Fairytale about Tsar Saltan” by A.
Pushkin (producer – I. Ignatiev, Honoured Art Worker of
RF, artist – A. Ignatieva, Honoured Art Worker of RF).
The Vologda puppeteers represented their native town
properly and got acquainted with creative works of
Russian and foreign colleagues
On May 3 there was the traditional Sweet tooth’s Party devoted to
the end of the 71st theatrical season. The
performance “Mishuk” was shown for our little spectators
who also got sweets and cakes. There was a rewarding
ceremony of the winners “My Favorite “Teremok” – a
competition of children drawings and creative works.
On
April 28-30 the 2nd festival of children amateur puppet
theatres “The Puppet Country” took place in “Teremok”.
Various talented troupes from Vologda, the Vologda
region and from other regions participated in the
festival. The organizers wanted to make it bright and
unforgettable for children. Little actors had an
opportunity to play on the professional stage of the
Puppet Theatre “Teremok”, made friends with each other.
The new prize “A Working Horse” has been
established in “Teremok” this year. This prize is given
to an actor who has played the biggest quantity of parts
during the year. In 2007 the possessor of the prize “A
Working Horse” became Natalia Savenkova who played in
more than 200 performances.
The winner of the competition “The Children’s
Favorite Actor” became Elena Tadlova, the
Honoured Artist of Russia, for the part of Nafa in the
performance “Three Piglets Twenty Years Later” (S.
Makeev, producer – Y. Mer, artist – O. Sidorenko). We
are very grateful to everyone who has taken part in
voting.
The actor
Anton Diev who plays Gvidon in the performance “The
Fairytale about Tsar Saltan” by A. S. Pushkin became the
laureate of the prize “The Diamond Hand” for the best part of 2007.
The
laureate of the theatrical Reward named after A. V.
Badaev became the actor Valentin Ovsyannikov for the
part of Mikitch in “Hanuma” (Tsagareli,producer – Y. Mer,
artist – Z. Davydov).
The
laureate of the theatrical Reward named after K. P.
Osipova became the Honoured Artist of Russia Vladimir
Datsenko “For long, bright and uncompromised serving to
the young spectator”.
Wonderful news for adult amateurs of the Puppet Theatre!
The new performance “ÊONCHERTO
GROSSO” is being
prepared nowadays. Its producer A. Borok is well-known
for spectators by the remarkable performance “Several
Days from Fen’ka’s Life”. The work is not small and
easy: it’s necessary to make 60 puppets for the
performance including trick puppets.
On March 14-20 our theatre participated in the International Festival
of Puppet Theatres “Muraveynik” in Ivanovo. The Vologda Puppet Theatre “Teremok” showed the
performance “Several Days from Fen’ka’s Life” (producer
– A. Borok, artist – A. Kardash). The spectators gave us
a warm welcome and were glad to get acquainted with
Fen’ka and her friends. |
In December Vologda celebrates the 70th anniversary of
the Puppet Theatre “Teremok”. Our theatre prepared for
the celebration for long. A very interesting program of
this festive occasion includes showing of our premieres:
“Hanuma”, “The Teremok”, “The Fairytale about Tsar
Saltan”, a party and meeting with critics, excursions to
the Vologda museums, and a fascinating fire show.
Theatrical workers from Moscow, Saint Petersburg,
Yaroslavl, Ivanovo, Ryazan, Murmansk, Pertozavodsk were
invited to the party. The holiday became a meeting of
friends, where congratulations and jokes could be heard. |
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