Novosibirsk Puppet Theatre

In 1933, a children’s theater appeared in our city. Soon, at the Youth Theatre, a puppetry studio was organized and on May 1, 1934, the opening of the first theatrical season was held with the premiere of the play "Petrushka visiting schoolchildren". During the Great Patriotic War, the State Central Puppet Theater was evacuated to Novosibirsk. The famous team had a huge impact on Novosibirsk. From July 1942 to August 1945, Novosibirsk Puppet Theater was a branch of the Moscow Puppet Theater, the theater not only worked hard in Siberia, but also went on long tours to the frontline areas with performances and concerts. Currently, in the work of the theater there is a lot of experiment, search, trial of forces, creative processing of accumulated experience. The collective lives by the desire to bring to the world of performances real human, not "puppet" feelings, to express their understanding of the purpose of man.