Stavropol Puppet Theatre

As a child, it’s always fun to watch dolls come alive. The puppet theater is a place of magic where puppet men become alive. Dolls glove, cane, puppets, so touching, defenseless and at the same time with surprisingly strong characters. You know, to tell your child about what is good or what is bad, what is friendship and what is a lie, be sure to take him to the Stavropol Regional Puppet Theater.

Good old fairy tales about Kolobka, Emelya and Pike and many others will give your child unforgettable impressions. Bright scenery, unique dolls, kind plots are just a great alternative to Western cartoons. By the way, cartoons are just drawing pictures, but you can touch the doll, you can talk to it. Even an adult after five minutes forgets that it is just a doll, and begins to empathize with her, thereby immersing himself in the atmosphere of a miracle.

For the first time the decree on the opening of the puppet theater of Stavropol, then still in the city of Voroshilovsk, dated 1936. The director and artistic director was T. Grigorovich in those years.

The first productions of the children’s theater were “Kashtanka”, “Ivan Tsarevich”, “Merry tailor”, “The Tale of the Dead Princess”, “Terem-Teremok”.

During the Great Patriotic War, the theater does not cease its activity, speaking to soldiers in military hospitals and at the front in between battles.

Since 2001, in the Stavropol Regional Puppet Theater, G. Goldman became the main director. In recent years, he has performed the following productions at the theater: “Cat House”, “Kitten named Gav”, “Almost Red Riding Hood”, “Three Pigs”, “Cherry Orchard”, “Jumping Princess”, “Sambo”, “How to become a princess”. With the play “Living Water”, the theater went to the IV International Festival of Puppet Theaters named after S. V. Obraztsov. Stavropol Regional Puppet Theater is a repeated participant in theater festivals.

At the moment, three honored artists of the Russian Federation work in the theater: M. Mikhailov, T. Stukacheva, L. Shcherbakova. The director of the theater V. Gubsky is an honored worker of culture.