Based on the fairytales of Hans Christian Andersen

Director: Dragoslav Todorovich

Set design and puppets: Boris Chakshiran

Music: Vladimir Peykovich

 

Featuring: Ventsislava Asenova, Silvia Petrova, Elena Rusalieva, Todor Dimitrov, Zdravko Dimitrov, Hristo Dimitrov

 

One Christmas Eve in a fairytale kitchen there was the buzz of a party atmosphere. The chefs were busy preparing the Christmas feasts. Everyone was chopping, mixing, cutting, peeling or grilling different treats. Christmas carols were playing. Then at the height of the preparations one of the chefs came in carrying a big book of Andersen’s fairytales. The chefs opened the book of fairytales and embarked on a magical journey through Andersen’s recipes……..

 

By Anastasia Yankova and based on an idea by Zornitsa Nikolova

Director: Anastasia Yankova

Set design and puppets: Natalia Gocheva

 

Featuring: Zdravko Dimitrov, Georgi Georgiev, Hristo Dimitrov, Elza Laleva, Tsvetoslava Simeonova, Mimi Yordanova

 

One beautiful night, white as snow,

Everyone anxiously awaited the carnival show

Perhaps a Christmas party

Without the Snowman, not very hearty?

Maybe they’ve passed, the festive games so fast,

Without old friends, the type that last….?

 

On Christmas night everyone celebrates and makes merry. On Christmas night miracles happen. Christmas night means festivities full of warm smiles and merriment… 

 

 

By Milan Pavlik

Translation: Yana Tsankova

Director: Anastasia Yankova

Set design and puppets: Stefka Kyuvlieva

Music: Metodi Ivanov

 

Featuring: Rumen Ugrinski, Georgi Stoyanov, Stanimir Gamov, Svobodomira Kalinkova

 

The stage is piled with boxes and presents. What is inside them? Hiding in the first box there is a little snowy city, and out from the others jump three snowmen who are constantly arguing. Then out there pops a little puppy looking for new friends.

Snow, the glow of street lamps, cold….and laughter on one unforgettable winter night.

 

 

Stage adaptation: Katya Petrova and Ina Bozhidarova, based on Luis Sepulveda’s novel The Story of a Seagull and the Cat Who Taught Her to Fly

Staging: Katya Petrova

Set design: Maya Petrova

Music: Stoyan  Royanov - Ya-Ya

Sound design and video editing: Svetlozar Georgiev

Visual effects: Sotir Gelev

 

Featuring: Marieta Petrova, Maya Bezhanska, Rumen Gavanozov, Stanimir Gamov, Rumen Ugrinski, Stoyan "Ya-Ya" Royanov

 

We are all part of Planet Earth. This is our home. It treats us with love and understanding. Its warming soul is both beautiful and eternal. It befriends us and gives us shelter. With open arms it provides us with everything we need. And all we do is trample over it, turn it into a big rubbish heap and destroy it. How do you think it feels?

Our daily negligence harms the oceans, forests, plants, animals… and one little seagull who gets stuck in an oil spill. With her last breaths she gives birth and leaves behind a solitary egg…

The play is a stage adaptation of Luis Sepulveda’s novel and draws us into the adventure of a gang of tomcats who find themselves with the unusual task of looking after the baby seagull and... teaching it to fly.

 

This play is suitable for children over four years of age

 

By Maria Stankova

Director: Veselka Kuncheva

Set design: Marieta Golomehova

Music: Hristo Namliev

 

Featuring: Maya Bezhanska, Rumen Gavanozov and Marieta Petrova

 

Are we setting out to find Don Quixote? Does anybody ever set out to find anything at all in this time of "advertisements and news"? Doesn't this turn our communication into one big quixotic jumble?
You won't find Don Quixote anywhere in this story. And as we all know, every empty space gets filled with something. What do we fill our souls with? How do we replace our childhood, our dreams, our fantasies, the petty rebellions in our personalities…? Are we even personalities at all?
Where are our giants, our windmills, our olive groves? Where are the sunrises? Is everything really behind our backs? Is it really true that after all this quixotic jumble we can't see our faces in the mirror? Are we crying? Are those tears?
Don Quixote will make you laugh til you cry. Go ahead and sniffle a little…

 

The play is superb with awards for leading male and female roles, scenography, music, direction and new dramatic text. The play also won the main ‘Golden Dolphin’ award for the best play at the 14th Golden Dolphin International Festival, Varna 2008.

 

 

A children's musical based on a fairytale by Alexander Pushkin

Translation: Petar Kovachev

Adaptation and directing: Professor Bonyo Lungov

Music: Lyupcho Mirkovski

Set design: Hannah Schwartz

Assistant director and choreograph: Konstantin Karakostov

 

Featuring: Stanimir Gamov, Rumen Ugrinski, Elena Rusalieva, Galina Savova, Marieta Petrova, Georgi Stoyanov, Silvia Petrova

 

The Tale of the Priest at His Servant Glupan contains typical Russian splendor and harmony. The priest is looking for servant who is simultaneously a "horseman, cook and worker." But he should also be "hard-working, cheap and obedient." One day at the market he comes across Glupan, who agrees to become his servant, but only under the condition that one day "instead of receiving a salary, Glupan will hit the priest on the head." The priest sets impossible tasks for his new worker. With skill, cleverness and agility Glupan manages to overcome every challenge.  

 

 

By Valeri Petrov

Staging: Petar Pashov

Set design: Silva Bachvarova

Music: Petar Tsankov

 

Featuring: Zdravko Dimitrov, Kamen Asenov, Hristo Dimitrov, Yavor Gigov

 

Little Rosy is on holidays. When the other children are playing, however, she has to practice hard on the piano. Rosy misses a bit of excitement and enthusiasm. She gets very bored and feels very lonely. To fill her time she often thinks up different games. One of her favourites is to call the fire station and to pull the duty officer’s leg.

One day however her piano comes to life and out pour rays from the moon that perform their very own magical concert.

 

 

Based on M. Mashatova

Dramatization and staging: Kiryakos Argriropulos

Set design: Ani Lulieva

Music: Petar Tsankov

 

Featuring: Georgi Stoyanov, Tsvetoslava Simeonova, Mimi Yordanova, Bozhidar Alexsandrov

 

The dragon decides to find himself a wife. So he begins to explore all the kingdoms looking for a princess for his own home. The first one he chose was so fussy that he just had to eat her. The second was so jealous that she scared everyone else off. In the third kingdom the dragon was very fond of the princess, but she was already engaged. Her fiancé challenged the dragon to a duel.

Defeated and expelled from the lands of the third kingdom the dragon set off for the fourth kingdom. There he started dating the very clever and extremely well-educated princess and learned all about how to…?

 

 

A stage adaptation of the fairytale by the Brothers Grimm

Directing and music: Elza Laleva

Set design: Svila Velichkova

 

Featuring: Anelia Nicheva, Marieta Petrova, Hristo Dimitrov

 

People have always been fascinated by beauty. It is unexplainable and mysterious....

There are so many different meanings of the word “beauty” to be found in old classical fairytales…equally intriguing to both young and old..........

One of the beautiful explanations of the word in Snow White is that the most important form of beauty is that of the soul, because it gives rise to goodness…

 

This play is suitable for children over three years of age

 

An original monodrama by Dimitar Todorov.

Set design and puppets: Diana Uzunova, Dimitar Todorov

 

The play is based on the fairytale by the same name from A Thousand and One Nights. This is one of Scheherazade’s best fairytales, but this time around the storyteller is not the beautiful princess but the genie from the lamp.

Leading us through the fairytale and introducing us to the characters the genie is in fact telling us his own story. He helps Aladin and the princess not only because it is his job to introduce them both, but also because he knows how it feels to be alone

On completing his hardest but most rewarding task of uniting these two lovers, the genie wins his freedom from the solitude of the lamp. But is this what he actually wants? Will this be enough for him to be able to find some friends to tell his story to?

 

 

 

Based on motives from Langeskjold Hofman

By Slavcho Malenov

Director – Emilia Malenova

Set design and puppets – Silva Buchvarova

Music – Petur Tsankov

 

Featuring: Marietta Petrova, Elena Rusalieva, Kamen Asenov, Nadia Tosheva, Georgi Georgiev

 

-Have you seen elves?

-And have you seen elves?

-And have you all seen elves?

 

Each person has to discover for himself the unseen in this world! Using their hearts, people can see elves.

This play tells the story of Maya’s unforgettable encounter with the little elf and the invisible world of magical creatures – elves, dwarves, trolls…

 

 

 

Screenplay and staging – Kiriakos Argiropoulos

Set design – Stefka Kyuvlieva

Music – Vladimir Dzhambazov

Song lyrics – Nikolaj Andrekov

 

Featuring: Ventsislava Asenova, Maya Bezhanska, Silvia Petrova, Rumen Ugrinski, Stanimir Gumov/Ivan Hristov

 

In the city of puppets, everything is just like it is in our city.  There are colorful houses, friendly dogs, grumbling neighbors, and happy children. Annie, Fanny, Ivo and Nasko also love games, jokes and vacations.  Without meaning to, however, in the course of fun and games the kids pop Nasko’s balloon. And not just any balloon, but his favorite balloon.  And half as a joke, half for revenge, Nasko begins to do some not-so-pleasant things. Sounds familiar, doesn’t it? But just how far can lighthearted revenge go?

 

 

 

By Slavcho Malenov

Director – Slavcho Malenov

Set design and puppets – Silva Buchvarova

Music – Vladimir Dzhambazov

Puppetmaster – Marian Sejkov

 

Featuring: Elena Rusalieva, Nella Hadzhieva, Anelia Nicheva, Stanimir Gumov, Zdravko Dimitrov, Todor Dimitrov

 

Young Slavejko and the beautiful maiden Lula pledge to get married, but the Dragon comes and carries off the girl.  After many turns of fortune, the young hero Slavejko manages to return from the forest.  This magical and amusing story ends with the marriage of not just one, but two couples.

 

 

 

By Rudyard Kipling

Stage adaptation and staging – Todor Vulov

Set design – Stefka Kyuleva

Music – Elena Metodieva

 

Featuring: Maya Bezhanska, Galina Savova, Elena Rusalieva, Marietta Petrova, Atanas Bonchev-Nakata, Kamen Asenov, Georgi Stoyanov

 

A long, long time ago, all elephants had itty-bitty noses…but that was changed once and for all by the curious little elephant: “Why is this like this, big brother? Why is that like that, mother?  Why, why, why…” the little elephant asked the crocodile, and since then all elephants have had long noses: trunks.

 

Winner of the Grand Prix at the Fifth International Festival “The Golden Spark” in Kraguevac, Serbia and Monte Negro, 2003.

Received awards for puppetry set design and for acting by Maya Bezhanska at the Eleventh Theater Festival in Kotor, Serbia and Montenegro, 2003.

 

 

 

By M. Minkov

Adapted for stage and directed by Todor Vulov

Set design – Stefka Kyuvlieva

Music – Elena Metodieva

 

Featuring: Tsvetoslava Simeonova, Georgi Stoyanov, Rumen Ugrinski

 

One tiny and very lonely town is searching for its residents.  The fairytale heroes are everywhere around us – we need only believe in imagination to discover them.

 

 

 

By the Brothers Grimm

Stage adaptation and staging – Venelin Kyosev

Set design – Maya Petrova

Music – Petur Tsankov

 

Featuring: Mira Kalinkova, Anelia Nicheva, Elena Rusalieva, Rumelia Znamenova, Todor Dimitrov, Georgi Stoyanov

 

The plot of this classic fairytale is once again brought to life and leads the young viewer into a labyrinth of secret experiences and adventures. He, along with Hansel and Gretel, despises the evil stepmother, fears the wicked witch, and worries about the helpless father…and crosses his fingers that everything will work out fine in the end.

 

 

 

By Hans Christian Anderson

Stage adaptation and staging – Professor Atanas Ilkov

Set design – Kliment Denchev, Ivan Milev

Puppets – Eva Hadzhieva

 

Featuring: Tsvetoslava Simeonova, Georgi Stoyanov

 

The magic of theater again and again breathes life into a well-known folktale.

 

 

 

Author and director – Venelin Kyosev

Set design – Maya Petrova

Music – Hajgashod Agasyan

 

Featuring: Nella Hadzhieva, Elena Rusalieva, Mira Kalinkova, Todor Dimitrov, Anelia Nicheva

 

This amusing play is filled with laughter and ups and downs.  It is a meeting with new friends, who, though a bit naïve, are ver-r-r-r-r-y goodhearted.

 

 

By Philip Moran

Director – Biserka Kolevska

Set design – Svila Velichkova

 

Featuring: Maya Bezhanska, Yavor Gigov, Georgi Stoyanov, Mimi Yordanova, Stanimir Gumov, and Ventsislava Asenova

 

One evening little Maya is left home alone with her teddy bear, Futone. The teddy bear comes to life, and the two of them enter the world of her imagination, where they are entranced by beautiful phantoms, met with huge monsters, and chased by ghosts…The return of her parents cuts short this magical dream.  But perhaps it was not a dream?...

 

 

 

Based on the novel by Rudyard Kipling

Adapted by Petur Kovachev and Professor Bonyo Lungov

Staging and musical arrangement - Professor Bonyo Lungov

Set design and puppets – Hannah Schwartz

 

Featuring: Marietta Petrova, Elena Rusalieva, Alexander Karamanov, Zdravko Dimitrov, Stanimir Gumov, Nella Hadzhieva, Galina Savova, Rumen Ugrinski

 

This play concerns the fairytale that is life and the long road each person must travel in his search for truth and in his quest to discover the correct way to live.  Maugli is the little child in each of us: weak, naked, trusting, lacking the fear and cruelty of civilization, symbolizing the purity of a child’s soul.  Maugli holds an open dialogue with the wild, with life and death, learns the laws of the jungle, and unexpectedly finds himself at a crossroads: he must decide whether to stay in the jungle and obey its laws or to embark on his human quest. Which will prevail—the laws of human civilization or those of eternally living and changing nature?

 

 

 

By Jordan Radichkov

Stage adaptation and production – Katya Petrova

Sets and puppets – Kolya Karamfilov

Costumes – Desislava Andonova

Sound design – Svetlozar Georgiev

 

Featuring: Doriana Gulubova, Marietta Petrova, Maya Bezhanska, Rumen Gavanazov, Rumen Ugrinski, Stanimir Gumov

 

Barely having learned to fly and to find their own food, the sparrows are ready to give up the free world of birds and to abandon the sky…they become flightless pedestrians, striving toward the dream of a better life in CIVILIZATION.

 

2002 – Rumen Ugrinski received an acting award at the international Golden Dolphin Festival.

 

 

 

Based on the English fairytale

Staging: Petar Pashov and Zheni Pashova

Set design: Lolina Hristova, Ivelina Koleva, Dimitar Stefanov

 

Featuring: Dimitar Stefanov, Lolina Hristova, Ivelina Koleva, Dimitar Ivanov, Silvia Nikolova, Georgi Tenev

 

Three magic bean seeds guarding the secret of true happiness are lost. Join the search through the Wild West where you’ll find adventure, friends and maybe even true happiness.

 

 

 

 

By Wilhelm Hauff

Director: Prof. Slavcho Malenov

Set design: Silva Bachvarova

Music: Petar Tsankov

Featuring: Dimitar Stefanov, Georgi Tenev, Vasil Spasov, Polina Hristova, Ivelina Koleva

 

An adaptation of Wilhelm Hauff's fairytale. The adventure of a young caliph, who along with his companion and vizier Mansor, is spellbound by the magician Kashnur and turned into a stork.