Theater of a fairy tale on Moscow. Puppet theater of fairy tales in St. Petersburg

Theater fairy tale on Moscow Avenue, 121, put the first play in the distant 1944, December 31, when the Great Patriotic War was still in the newly liberated from the blockade of Leningrad. Since that time on the eve of the New Year the theater celebrates its birthday.

Three Fairies

Exhausted by the war and forgotten to laugh, the children needed positive emotions and joy. Three Leningrad actresses, who returned from the war, understood and felt it with all their heart, so under incredibly difficult conditions they organized a puppet show Theater of a fairy tale. These three sorceresses: Chernyak Catherine - the first director and director of the theater, Elena Gilodi and Olga Lyandzberg - actresses.

The theater gained strength and expanded in the years after the war, although he received the status of the state after 12 years, but for the time being he lived only at the expense of the enthusiasm and creativity of the creators. Only in 1956 he was given a rehearsal room on Vladimirsky Prospekt, 12, but without an auditorium, so the puppet theater of the fairy tale continued to move from place to place, making his performances known and successful not only in the Leningrad region and the city itself, but also in the Other cities of the country.

A new stage in the life of the theater

In the early 1970s, the theater troupe was headed by the experienced puppeteer Yuri Yeliseyev. Together with the artist Nelly 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 began his directorial work in the theater Nikolai Borovkov. With his arrival, foreign tours of the theater are increasingly being organized to show fairy tales to children of different countries, as well as performances began to participate and win awards in festivals on an international level.

Theater fairy tale on Moscow Avenue

The main event in the life of the theater occurred in November 1986 (22 numbers), when he finally had his own house with a stage, rehearsal and auditoriums. And Georgy Nikolaevich Turaev, the director of the theater from 1965 to 1987, organized and inspired the building of the building. The architects and authors of the project were T. Ya. Razin, I. P. Kondratieva, V. V. Ivanov.

And now, 12 years after the laying of the first stone, the Fairytale Theater on Moskovsky Prospect opened its hospitable doors for small art lovers.

Theater troupe today

The artistic director and chief director of the theater today is Igor Ignatiev. The performances of the plays themselves have changed, from small "exit" to large stationary ones, modern art techniques with sound and light effects are used.

Artists of the theater - Polyakova Nelli, Ignatieva Anna - are the authors of dolls, costumes, scenography. Possessing talent and creative individuality, complementing each other, they create and fill with miracles the fantastically beautiful world of the theater.

The fairy tale theater on Moscow Avenue inspires and warms the theater company consisting of 20 actors, almost all of them are students and winners of theater awards and competitions. There are among them well-deserved artists of Russia: Emilia Kulikova, Lyudmila Blagoeva, Polina Semenova, Valentin Morozov and others.

Awards

The theater's desire to move forward and not stop at what has been achieved in staging interesting performances was noted by critics. As a result of this attention, the theater was repeatedly nominated and won victories in competitions for theater awards. The play "The Nutcracker and the Mouse King" won the "Golden Mask" award, and the State Prize of Russia was given to the director and artist of the production Igor and Anna Ignatieva.

The fairy tale theater at the Moscow gates has toured with festivals in many countries: Finland, Spain, Turkey, Egypt, Germany, Kuwait and others. On his stage he took puppet theaters in Germany, Bulgaria, Yugoslavia.

Festivals and tours do not distract storytellers and wizard artists from creating new sets and dolls. Every year the fairy tale theater (St. Petersburg) pleases Their viewers with premieres with an unusual interpretation of classical subjects, new bright decorations, and the fairy-tale characters of productions sow beauty and harmony in the hearts of small Petersburgers, striving for good.

Events in the foyer

The fabulous atmosphere envelops the spectator at once, as soon as he crosses the threshold of the building. He meets a good fairy, surrounded by fantastic animals. The St. Petersburg Puppet Theater, apart from its main activity, organized various events in the foyer so that the viewer would not be bored before the performances and during the intermission:

- Students of the Pedagogical College teach kids the art of origami, beadwork, knitting on their fingers, the craftsmanship of making rag dolls, drawing. This is on Saturday before the play, which starts at 14 o'clock.

- On Sunday at the same time artists and actors come to a creative meeting for small viewers. They talk about themselves and their ideas, and also demonstrate their own master classes.

- On weekends, everyone wins a magnificent aquagrim.

- Among other things, excursions after the performance are organized in the theater building, where all the secrets of the play's birth are revealed: the children get acquainted with the work of make-up artists, decorators, props and all those without whom the audience will not meet with the beautiful. The theatrists talk about the process of creating the play, they are dedicated to the mystery of making scenery and dolls.

- In the intermission or after the presentation, you can refresh yourself by visiting the buffet, there you can celebrate children's holidays - from birthdays to graduation.

Ticket prices

You can buy tickets to the puppet theater for a play on a weekday for 250 rubles, and on weekends - from 300. Excursions around the museum cost 250 rubles, they need to register on the phone in advance. For those who attended the performance, the price of the tour is 150 rubles.

Repertoire

For decades, the troupe honed each of its productions, so it has a huge repertory baggage. It is designed for different age categories. Performances for the smallest art lovers (from 3-4 years old) are represented, for example, by the painting "The Little Leaf-cheat", which tells about what can happen to the cunning. This is a kind and naive fairy tale, and certainly will be appreciated by the child, as well as "Masha and the Bear." These statements take no more than 50 minutes.

Children from 5 years will appreciate the "Thumbelina", "The Wizard of the Emerald City", the comedy "Cats and Mice", the buffoonery "The Humpbacked Horse". You can also watch the productions of "Bluebeard" by Charles Perrault, "From the Liverpool harbor" by Rudyard Kipling, the fantastic production of "The Green Blood", "The Tale of Ivan the Lazy" based on folklore.

Younger schoolchildren, who need more serious performances, will be able to see the "Black Chicken" - a true Petersburg story, the play "Dwarf Nose" based on the fairy tale of Hauf, "Cranes feathers" - a Japanese parable. Since 2013, the repertoire of the theater included the play "Elyon: Version 2.0" is an exciting story about the adventures of a fifteen-year-old boy who rescued someone else's 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 Royal Sandwich", which is based on the poems of English poets, and the "Circus" - a puppet show about the circus, stands 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 heroes of their fairy tales. But adults who come with the children can feel like children for a moment and plunge into the magic of a fairy tale, watching, holding their breath, for the fate of the heroes.