Program of the State Puppet Theater - Plovdiv
September 2022

10.09, 10:30 a.m. - Aladdin - Haskovo State Puppet Theater visits
10.09, 11:45 a.m. - Aladdin - Haskovo State Puppet Theater visits
Aladdin is a favorite story from Scheherazade's One Thousand and One Nights fairy tale. Everyone loves the adventures of the orphan who flies on a magic carpet, meets a powerful genie and falls in love with a princess.

11.09, 10:30 a.m. - Chuk and Puk
11.09, 11:45 a.m. - Chuk and Puk
A fun educational show that will help children discover various important secrets about teeth!

15.09, 19:00 - The Invisible Tonino
"Invisible Tonino" is a story about a child's lie. The most ordinary, the most expected, the most repeated, but this time it has unexpected consequences. "No homework, no lessons!" Tonino replies to his mother, and the Lie appears next to him. She is a character, a participant, an instigator. Tonino, who doesn't lie, starts using her, and she grows stronger and manages to fulfill the innermost wish of every child who hasn't done their homework - to become invisible. "An invisible child cannot be tested!" And from here Tonino's great adventure begins. How many times have we thought what we would do if we were invisible. How great would that be? How inventive will we be? And how happily invisible! And this is where the big question comes in: Is there an invisible happiness?

17.09, 10:30 a.m. - The Three Brothers and the Golden Apple
17.09, 11:45 a.m. - The Three Brothers and the Golden Apple
The performance "The Three Brothers and the Golden Apple" tells an old Bulgarian folk tale. Three brothers receive an inheritance from their father, a golden apple. Unfortunately, every year a Lamia flies in and steals her. Only the Youngest of the brothers takes the long way after the Llama to return his golden apple. Along the way, he imperceptibly grows up and discovers that the strength of a person lies in the heart. Discovers forgotten values ​​such as faith, hope, love. Discovers friendship and wisdom. He manages to defeat the Llama and get his golden apple back. So that it can once again shine on top of the tree woven by the hands of storytellers. This is a show about the roots and the legacy left to us by our ancestors. For the preservation and protection of national dignity and identity. A performance in which Bulgarian folk music, folk creativity and needlework, Bulgarian dances and rituals are intertwined in a magical, magical tale.

18.09, 10:30 a.m. - The Princess and the Pea
18.09, 11:45 a.m. - The Princess and the Pea
A show with many princesses, many advices, many questions, one prince, one pea and one true ... love! All this conveyed through the magic of the unity of puppet and actor.

24.09, 10:30 a.m. - The wild swans
24.09, 11:45 a.m. - The wild swans
H.K. Andersen's old fairy tale "The Wild Swans" flies to us, carried on the wings of love, dreams, self-sacrifice. She leads us into magical worlds full of secrets and riddles that the little princess Eliza will try to uncover. Fragile as a feather, Eliza withstands all trials to remind us that love is the power that conquers all. And when you see swans in the sea, think - are they not enchanted princes looking for their sister.

25.09, 10:30 a.m. - Dunno in the Sunny City
25.09, 11:45 a.m. - Dunno in the Sunny City
"A Stranger in Sunny City" is a story about a child's strong desire to be good, but only to get his reward. Namely, your magic wand! The fulfillment of his wish involves him in an adventure that entails great consequences for which he is not yet ready. Without looking back, Neznaiko boldly waves the magic wand before our eyes until he reaches the greatest magic of which a person is capable - to be good because you want to be!

29.09, 19:00 - Hamlet
It is a different and attractive performance that presents the serious Shakespearean plot with humor and lightness. The text is based on both Shakespeare's original and the ironic commentary of the American Shakespearean scholar Richard Armor - Shakespeare in a crooked mirror. The four actors who will benefit from these texts will look at their own complexes in the crooked mirror of the stage. These complexes will be dictated by a purely human fear - the fear of death. This fear turns the characters of Shakespeare's revenge tragedy into victims. And when you are a victim and when you realize it, it becomes even scarier. And you try to escape from that role. You are actually running away from yourself. These are the metamorphoses we want to trace with our performance. And with the help of dolls. Here the dolls are divided into two types. The innocent puppets - these are the "young hopes" of Elsinore - Hamlet, Ophelia, Laertes, Cloak, Fortinbras. The rest of the characters are related in some way to the patinated environment in the palace. They seem to crawl out of some niches and return there again.

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