Liepāja Puppet Theater will delight young spectators with two premieres / Article

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Although the small Liepāja Puppet Theater does not have a separate Russian troupe, the theater regularly offers performances in Russian to its Russian-speaking audience. Alexander Jonov, author and director of the show, points out that First Advent is the right time to recall an important truth in life – whether you are a child or a pragmatic adult, everyone needs the power of faith and hope: “Faith and hope have great power to guide our lifes. The pragmatism of an adult steals without inheriting and stifles the energy of our lives. It is very difficult for an adult to achieve this elevation from a pragmatic position to radiance in the eyes. “The show is an attempt to keep the glow in the eyes of children as long as possible and to create a chain reaction from children to parents, making it sticky to them as well,” explains Jonovs.

The show is designed as a box of surprises – artist Kristīne Martinova has created a bright, colorful and detailed Advent calendar-like scenography, where the opening of each small window offers a new world and an unexpected surprise, while the author’s performance by composer Rustama Bagirova.

Equally confident in the ability to change the usual order of things is given to the unusual elf Eumumilla. Most of us can imagine lovely, gentle and winged elves who can work wonders with a single swipe. But what is the power of a small, naughty fairy with horns? The “horned” character of the brisk creature is vividly revealed by the puppet sketches and delicate parterre dolls created by the artist Gita Peta. Accidentally caught in the Baigai thicket, Ežumilla causes a great deal of confusion and a series of unusual events that change life in the Baigaja thicket forever.

Laila Kirmuška’s production “Mežlaumiņa Baigajā buszninī” is the first reading of the story of the Slovenian writer Jana Bauere mežlaumiņa on the stage of a puppet theater in the Baltics.

The performances are included in the offer of the program “Latvian school bag”.

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