Programme of the State Puppet Theatre Plovdiv
November 2022

03.11, 19:00  - BEYOND THE WALL
"Beyond the Wall" is an exciting theatrical adventure that deaf and hearing children can embark on and experience together. The performance is an extraordinary journey through a personal inner world, a world through which we will be guided by two wonderful actresses - the hearing Julia Kolarova and the deaf actress Rositsa Karadzhova.

05.11, 10:30  - THE GRIDDLE BREAD
05.11, 11:45  - THE GRIDDLE BREAD
You'll see history exactly as you've heard, read or been told it. And if you don't know what "nocvi" are, what the "yeast" is for, where the flour comes from... in general, how to knead a delicious pie, you will learn from our show. A familiar tale told by two travelling bakers. Their sacks, stirrers, ladles, jugs and colanders become the characters of the tale.

06.11, 10:30  - DON'T GET YOURSELF IN TROUBLE
06.11, 11:45  - DON'T GET YOURSELF IN TROUBLE
"Don't Look for Trouble" is a story about insects.
Pipo, a little spider, breaks away from his thread and goes through a lot until he finds a friend, Joro the ant. The Bees, the Fireflies, the Beetle, the Baby Ladybug, Kiro the Cricket and Clara the Butterfly invite you to have fun with them. Your guide in the world of insects will be Ignat the Elf.

08.11, 10:30  - RAINBOW
A visual discovery show for the little ones. The child gets to know the world through play! Theatre provides us with the wonderful opportunity to give knowledge through play! A different, fun and playful performance that introduces us to the seasons. Your child will recognize the season through the way they dress, the weather changing, nature changing and fun magic tricks. A performance without words that provokes the child's curiosity. Wonderful music combined with a fun vision and wonderful acting!

09.11, 19:00  - PLAY
"Every water bridge needs to have its feet trampled on, to come and go about their business." For the bridge to remain unbreakable and everlasting a sacrifice must be laid in its foundation. Master Manol embeds the love of his life - Neda. How far can the egoism of the artist go? How far can he go to perpetuate his creation? Where is the line that must not be crossed?

11.11, 19:00  - THE HIT OF THE SEASON
"The Hit of the Season" introduces us to the world of writer Ziva Kamenarska.She is facing a hysterical deadline to write a play, and her life is invaded by characters mad with ambition and unfulfilled dreams.
They are all on the edge and in urgent need of being in this very play.
How far will the writer be led by the manipulations of these characters and how great is the price she must pay to create a true Hit?

12.11, 10:30  - THE THREE PIGLETS
12.11, 11:45  - THE THREE PIGLETS
Two families of equal-skilled Woodlanders with vendettas ancient are before you. And the grandchildren will inherit the war, what Grandfather Wolf and Grandfather Pig bequeath. But the pigs have their own problem: "We three in a house will not get together!" They build with straw, sticks, and stone Each builds his own castle And Grandfather Wolf trains the wolf, Trains his recruit expertly, Good is the recruit's initial training, alas - a vegetarian. And how will the eternal vendetta end - the war between wolves and pigs? The story here will tell us, but if it's not so good, hopefully our game will help.
A beloved tale told with much humor and fun.

13.11, 10:30  - THE PRINCESS AND THE PIG-TENDER
13.11, 11:45  - THE PRINCESS AND THE PIG-TENDER
"...Now I have to make her love not only me, but everything real..." All the reasons for this spectacle to happen are summed up in those words. It is drilled into the pure childish mind of the princess that "she loves nothing real". This is the reason why the child sees things around her not with her own eyes but with the eyes of others. The beautiful cage in which the princess lives is another reason why she does not see the real world and the real things of life. But as in every fairy tale, the handsome prince comes to save a misguided heart. Through love, the princess discovers not only true human feelings, but also the real world around her.

15.11, 10:30  - DRAW ME A MAN
"DRAW ME A MAN" is a show for children at a young age that stimulates their creativity and develops their sense of aesthetics. An artist paints in front of the audience and provokes them to transform one picture into another with their imagination. A face, a person, a family and a host of other images emerge under the artist's imaginative brush, and the familiar poem "Dot, dot, comma..." is his starting point.

17.11, 19:00  - THE LITTLE PRINCE
A performance for adults with children. We call the show "For Adults with Children". i.e. we invite the grown-ups to come to the lounge with their children and try to tell them about all the things that happen on stage. When the child asks the adults what friendship is, the love of a rose and what it is to tame a fox - we will have to answer. This is what we would like to provoke - so that the request "Draw me a sheep", is the most genuine and natural thing that can happen to us in life.

19.11, 10:30  -  MONKEY ADVENTURES
19.11, 11:40  -  MONKEY ADVENTURES
For all the little spectators and their parents who can laugh their hearts out, who love to clap their hands, is our show - an adventure big, in which the Elephant and the Parrot, two rescue the heartiest Monkey in the green and unknown jungle. Come with us on an adventure to learn if the words well-mannered, good have meaning! And then we'll get into some fun games!

19.11, 19:00  -  HAMLET
This is a different and engaging show that presents the serious Shakespearean plot with fun and lightness. It uses both Shakespeare's original and American Shakespearean scholar Richard Armer's ironic commentary, Shakespeare in a Crooked Mirror, as the basis for the text. The four actors who will use these texts will look at their own complexities in the crooked mirror on stage. These complexes will be driven by a purely human fear - the fear of death. This fear turns the heroes of Shakespeare's revenge tragedy into victims. And once you are a victim, and when you realize it, you become even more frightening. And you try to escape that role. You're actually running away from yourself. These are the metamorphoses we want to follow with our performance. And it's with the help of the puppets. Here the puppets are divided into two types. The innocent puppets - these are the "young hopes" of Elsinore - Hamlet, Ophelia, Laertes, Halata, Fortinbras. The other characters are connected in some way with the patinated environment of the palace. They seem to crawl out of some niche and go back in again.

20.11, 10:30  -  KOSSE BOSSE
20.11, 11:45  -  KOSSE BOSSE
The beloved actors will tell the classic tale of Cosetto, Fox and Sharo under the direction of Marietta Angelova and set design by Anna Pulieva and Krasimir Vassilev.
The tree with the nest, the cunning Fox, the little Hair and the friend Sharo - they will all be waiting for you to bring the messages and ideas to life and together we will look at them from today's perspective.

22.11, 10:30  -  WHO AM I? - BABY THEATRE
The show is a walk into the world of the animals that children see in books. But our books are different - everything comes to life in them. A little caterpillar learns about the world and its inhabitants, until finally, now grown up and learning many new things, she becomes a beautiful butterfly. An emotional close encounter with the puppets and actors, full of tenderness and warmth. And at the end, the little spectators can examine the puppets, walk (or crawl) among the scenery.

24.11, 19:00  -  THE QUEEN OF SPADES
The game of cards or the game of fate. The game in which we crave to win and get happiness, love, fulfillment, power. This game swirls desires within us. This is the theme that the team of the show explores. The desires that slowly swell, overwhelm us, subjugate us and finally suck us into their element to spit us back out - disfigured and deformed semblances of human beings. Or the desires repressed, stagnant, silenced by fear and insecurity, which leave us chewing the routine of our grey everyday life waiting for a mystical salvation. What is the man crucified between the forces of darkness and light?
"The Lady of Spades is a play about salvation and damnation, wrenching passion and false humility.

26.11, 10:30  -  THE GLOVE OF GRANDPA
26.11, 11:45  -  THE GLOVE OF GRANDPA
Favorite actors tell the beloved tale of animals that find a home in a... glove!

27.11, 10:30  -  THE DOG THAT COULDN'T BARK
27.11, 11:45  -  THE DOG THAT COULDN'T BARK
A musical, sad and funny tale about a very small puppy left in a bag in the middle of the big and unknown world. With no one to teach him how to bark, he sets off on his own path. So many encounters, adventures, games, dangers and surprises await him before he "sings" his joyful song with his own, canine bark.

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