Theatre for children
Here familiar stories become a space for co-creation, and the spectator is a creator and participant in their own unique story.
Wizard of OZ
A videocomic and storytelling combining the contexts of L.F. Baum's tale with the landscapes and mythology of a small provincial Russian town
The production consists of 13 scenes, each of which has been resolved by different visual language means: stop-motion and 3D animation, shadow theatre and light puppets, comics, online filming and broadcasting, video collage, tik-tok and others. The contexts of the fairy tale intersect with the contexts of Chita town (Russia) to reveal the effect of the world created by Dorothy's imagination. Two actresses accompany the visual narrative with storytelling based on the original fairy tale "The Amazing Wizard of Oz". In the process of creating the performance, the composer used the noises and sounds of the city to create the tracks.
Idea & diecting: Sasha Khromov
Stage design & costumes: Maria Matveeva
Playwriter: Aleksandr Khomov (Sr)
Composer: Anna Bulgakova
Animation: Andrey Sergeev
Zabaikalsky state puppet theatre "Tridevjatoe Tscarstvo". Chita, Russia
Idea & diecting: Sasha Khromov
Stage design & costumes: Maria Matveeva
Playwriter: Aleksandr Khomov (Sr)
Composer: Anna Bulgakova
Animation: Andrey Sergeev
Zabaikalsky state puppet theatre "Tridevjatoe Tscarstvo". Chita, Russia
Tales of the fairy tree
A musical-visual performance based on the rituals, myths, fairy tales and songs of ancient Russia.
At the centre of the world was a tree, and on that tree resided three birds of Paradise. Gamayun - the bird of prophecy, Alkonost - the bird of Joy, and Sirin - the bird of Sorrow. The tree has disappeared, and now we are left with only the memory of it in the wooden products that people made in past centuries. Paradise birds reassemble the tree from ancient items of country life, in the process creating a fairy tale. The music for the performance is written and performed on authentic musical instruments, using the sounds and noises of rustic items.
Idea, script & directing: Sasha Khromov
Stage design & costumes: Maria Matveeva
Composer: Anna Bulgakova
Perm state puppet theatre. Russia
Idea, script & directing: Sasha Khromov
Stage design & costumes: Maria Matveeva
Composer: Anna Bulgakova
Perm state puppet theatre. Russia
Theatre of the colored shadows
Ivan-Tscarevich and Grey Wolf
Fantasy based on a russian folk fairy tale
The performance has a long history. My father wrote the play and devised his own shadow theatre system using (at the time) modern materials and technology, based on Chinese traditional shadow theatre. My father's play has been performed at the Krasnoyarsk Puppet Theatre for 20 years, once I managed to participate in it as an actor. I staged this performance supplementing it with my own developments in the works of text presentation and puppetry
Once upon a time there was a king and he had three sons. He had an orchard with golden apples growing in it. He noticed that the apples were disappearing from the garden, so he ordered his sons to be on duty all night to catch the thief.
The older brothers fell asleep. The youngest brother volunteered to be the watchman, and he found a Firebird flying in at night, and he wanted to catch it, but all he had time to do was to take the feather from its tail.The king was charmed by the beauty of the feather and grieved, for he had lived his life and had not known Beauty. He sent his sons in search of the Firebird, and they went their separate ways.
The youngest son - Ivan got lost in the forest, fell asleep, and woke up as the Grey Wolf was eating his horse. The Grey Wolf, in the role of teacher, guide and magic helper, promises to help Ivan in his quest. During this journey the wolf provokes Ivan to commit crimes, but the boy prefers to act according to his conscience and honour.
The boy becomes a man, wins the Firebird, a golden-haired horse and a bride, and returns home
Idea, play, music & technology: Aleksandr Khromov (Sr)
Stage design and puppets: Elena Guselnikova
Directing:Sasha Khromov
Zabaikalsky state puppet theatre "Tridevjatoe Tscarstvo" Chita, Russia
Once upon a time there was a king and he had three sons. He had an orchard with golden apples growing in it. He noticed that the apples were disappearing from the garden, so he ordered his sons to be on duty all night to catch the thief.
The older brothers fell asleep. The youngest brother volunteered to be the watchman, and he found a Firebird flying in at night, and he wanted to catch it, but all he had time to do was to take the feather from its tail.The king was charmed by the beauty of the feather and grieved, for he had lived his life and had not known Beauty. He sent his sons in search of the Firebird, and they went their separate ways.
The youngest son - Ivan got lost in the forest, fell asleep, and woke up as the Grey Wolf was eating his horse. The Grey Wolf, in the role of teacher, guide and magic helper, promises to help Ivan in his quest. During this journey the wolf provokes Ivan to commit crimes, but the boy prefers to act according to his conscience and honour.
The boy becomes a man, wins the Firebird, a golden-haired horse and a bride, and returns home
Idea, play, music & technology: Aleksandr Khromov (Sr)
Stage design and puppets: Elena Guselnikova
Directing:Sasha Khromov
Zabaikalsky state puppet theatre "Tridevjatoe Tscarstvo" Chita, Russia
Chouckovsky's fairy tales
Process of making fairy tales or what's in a children's writer's head
Process of making fairy tales or what's in a children's writer's head
Korney Ivanovich Chukovsky has been one of the most popular children's writers for a hundred years. There is hardly a person in Russia who has not heard his poems and fairy tales for children. The popularity of the material does not always play to the play's advantage, but it always opens up a space of depth to the author himself.
The main image of this performance is the author's inner Garden, where, like fruit, fairy tales grow. And the inner gardeners unpack the ripe fruit and demonstrate its contents on the screen, while the musicians create the music and rhythms in which the poetry is revealed.
Idea, directing & craftmade musical instruments: Sasha Khromov
Stage design, puppets & costumes: Anastasia Goncharova
Composer & vocal teacher: Anna Bulgakova
Kirov state puppet theatre. Russia
The main image of this performance is the author's inner Garden, where, like fruit, fairy tales grow. And the inner gardeners unpack the ripe fruit and demonstrate its contents on the screen, while the musicians create the music and rhythms in which the poetry is revealed.
Idea, directing & craftmade musical instruments: Sasha Khromov
Stage design, puppets & costumes: Anastasia Goncharova
Composer & vocal teacher: Anna Bulgakova
Kirov state puppet theatre. Russia
Unplanned travel
Situational storytelling or no one knows what the story is going to be about
A performance for children over the age of 5. Before the performance, the performer shows the audience empty matchboxes and an aquarium with small objects.
He announces that no one knows what the play will be like now, and that we will all create it together.
The audience takes one object at a time and hides it in the matchboxes. The performer distributes the boxes in a random order on his table. The contents of some boxes will be characters, some events and some circumstances. The first box the performer takes out of his pocket. In the box is a leaf...
"There was a tree in the middle of the park. At the end of August, a small leaf was surprisingly born on it. The other leaves shielded him from the information that autumn was coming, and he would live so short and dull. He didn't care much about that. Because he dreamed of being there, outside the park. As the days went by, the leaf grew slowly, as opposed to his desire to break away from the tree branch. And then one day..." (the performer opens a random matchbox on the table)
Theatre "Cat William" St-Petersburg, Russia
He announces that no one knows what the play will be like now, and that we will all create it together.
The audience takes one object at a time and hides it in the matchboxes. The performer distributes the boxes in a random order on his table. The contents of some boxes will be characters, some events and some circumstances. The first box the performer takes out of his pocket. In the box is a leaf...
"There was a tree in the middle of the park. At the end of August, a small leaf was surprisingly born on it. The other leaves shielded him from the information that autumn was coming, and he would live so short and dull. He didn't care much about that. Because he dreamed of being there, outside the park. As the days went by, the leaf grew slowly, as opposed to his desire to break away from the tree branch. And then one day..." (the performer opens a random matchbox on the table)
Theatre "Cat William" St-Petersburg, Russia
Сhou-ko-ko
FairyPunk rhapsody based on the fairy tale "Fedorino grief" by K. I. Chukovsky
The performance Chou-ko-ko continues Chukovsky's universe, where things come to life and riot, where the author's inner space is revealed, where music and rhythms tell the story of the miracle of rebirth into a new quality.
The play was originally planned as part of a trilogy about Purity, Conscience and Freedom. All three performances were to take place in one evening and constitute a big family programme of 6 hours, between performances, the material for the next performance was created through interactive activities with the audience. In the end, only the first part, about purity, was included in the production
The first part, based on the fairy tale "The Fedorin's Grief", became the performance Chou-ko-ko. In the inner Lab, somewhere inside Chukovsky, fairy tales are unconsciously created, with the help of tireless lab assistants. But suddenly, through the fault of one of the workers, or rather his unrealised ambition, a catastrophe occurs in the Laboratory. Only Miracle can save the laboratory and thus Chukovsky himself. The protagonist, being deeply disillusioned with her own life, has brought her reality to the point where her own things are running away from her. Now she must create a Miracle - transform herself and change the space around her.
Idea & directing: Sasha Khromov
Stage design, puppets, costumes: Anastasia Goncharova
Composer and vocal teacher: Anna Bulgakova
Puppet theatre of the Fairy Tale, St-Petersburg, Russia
The play was originally planned as part of a trilogy about Purity, Conscience and Freedom. All three performances were to take place in one evening and constitute a big family programme of 6 hours, between performances, the material for the next performance was created through interactive activities with the audience. In the end, only the first part, about purity, was included in the production
The first part, based on the fairy tale "The Fedorin's Grief", became the performance Chou-ko-ko. In the inner Lab, somewhere inside Chukovsky, fairy tales are unconsciously created, with the help of tireless lab assistants. But suddenly, through the fault of one of the workers, or rather his unrealised ambition, a catastrophe occurs in the Laboratory. Only Miracle can save the laboratory and thus Chukovsky himself. The protagonist, being deeply disillusioned with her own life, has brought her reality to the point where her own things are running away from her. Now she must create a Miracle - transform herself and change the space around her.
Idea & directing: Sasha Khromov
Stage design, puppets, costumes: Anastasia Goncharova
Composer and vocal teacher: Anna Bulgakova
Puppet theatre of the Fairy Tale, St-Petersburg, Russia
Touching story
Sensitive performance about journey of the deep dreams to find yourself and your own family
A closed-eye performance immerses the spectator in the circumstances of a dream, where associations and situations revolve the spectator's attention around archetypes and bring about a profound awareness of self and presence
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