11,00 am „The Unborn girl” Theatre Ako /Bulgaria/

DIRECTOR: Hristina Arsenova
STAGE IDEA AND DRAMATURGY: Simona Nanova
STAGE DESIGN: Desislava Petkova
PUPPETS: Emiliya Kovacheva
MUSIC: “Orphika”
CAST: Simona Nanova

Diving in the Bulgarian folklore fairytale is akin to diving in a lake of aqua vita - you feel reborn. This is what The Unborn Girl is all about - from the top of the apple tree to the bottom of the deep well, you will find yourself in a wonderful world, woven with love and harmony, radiating justice and morality, which all good hearts yearn for. Come and dream with us! The Performance is a coproduction between Arte Viva Foundation, Ako theater and State Puppet Theatre Stara Zagora.

06 SEPTEMBER 2014, 11.00 am
DURATION OF THE PERFORMANCE: 50 MIN
RECOMMENDED AGE OF THE AUDIENCE: 4 YEARS AND UP
LANGUAGE – BULGARIAN

3:00 pm „The Real Musicians from Bremen” Tomsk puppet theatre/Russia/

AUTHOR: Proklov
DIRECTOR: Sergey Stolyarov
STAGE DESIGN: Alexander Alekseev
COSTUMES: Alena Shafer
CAST: Natalia Pavlenko, Mikhail Miterev, Mikhail Selischev, and Mikhail Lebedev

The Real Musicians of Bremen is a story about four youngsters who choose to gain some money by singing and playing on streets. They are enthusiastic and full of creative ideas. What can come out of this and how is it connected with the donkey, the dog, the cat and the rooster, who were all sent away by their owners and who wanted to become street musicians in Bremen? Our four friends are not performers, they can’t sew suits, and cannot make puppets, or is it otherwise? Are we completely wrong in our first judgement of them? The clothes they gather they turn into magnificent costumes, the useless staff become beautiful puppets, and the old tale bursts into a new reggae-styled story.

"SKOMOROKH" THEATRE EXPRESSES SINCERE APPRECIATION AND HEARTFELT THANKS TO MR. DUKHANIN SERGEY, A HEAD OF THE COMPANY "SIBTRANSSTROY" (TOMSK, RUSSIA), FOR PROVIDING FINANCIAL SUPPORT AND LONG-TERM FRUITFUL COOPERATION.

06 SEPTEMBER 2014, 3:00 pm
DURATION OF THE PERFORMANCE: 60 MIN
RECOMMENDED AGE OF THE AUDIENCE: 10 YEARS AND UP
LANGUAGE – WITH LITTLE TEXT IN RUSSIAN AND BUGARIAN

9:00 pm „Escorial” Hand theatre /Bulgaria/

AUTHOR: Michel Del Gelderod
DIRECTOR: Vesselin Boydev
COMPOSER: Peter Tzankov
STAGE DESIGN AND PUPPETS: Iva Gikova and Ivaylo Nikolov
CAST: Dimitar Nikolov, Dobrin Dobrev - Dodo, Mariya Dimitrova and Ivaylo Ivanov

Every one of us can find himself in the position of a king, a court jester, an executioner or a monk. Sometimes simultaneously. Sometimes, driven by the consequences or by their very own and uncontrollable desires, people can decide to change the costume, their image, the part they play; to change their social roles and thus to articulate long kept secrets. But when the spiritual has been long destroyed, and the perennial values like love and friendship has lost their significance, the only thing left is horrifying and destructive zest. Sometimes when a person falls entrapped by his lower passions, along comes the joy of humiliating and mocking the others. It is the humiliation as a refined form of revenge... And it's always against the people this person loves the most.

06 SEPTEMBER 2014, 9:00 pm
DURATION OF THE PERFORMANCE: 60 MIN
RECOMMENDED AGE OF THE AUDIENCE: 16 YEARS AND UP
LANGUAGE – BULGARIAN