The Poltava theater has chosen to show in Kyiv some well-known productions from its repertoire for children and adults, which have already won a lot of awards at prestigious national and international festivals.
Little ones will find it interesting to see the fairytales Mr. Cat (staged by Serhii Bryzhan, designed by Vasyl Bezulia), Baby Tiger Petryk (staged by Dmytro Nuianzin, designed by Mykola Danko); the lyrical production Wings for Thumbelina by Andrii Usachov after a fairytale by Hans Christian Andersen (staged by Oksana Dmytriieva, designed by Svitlana Safronova, choreographed by Olena Matiunina); and the comic opera She-Goat Dereza by Mykola Lysenko (staged by Leonid Popov in association with the artist Valerii Kozub).
For adults, the guest performers will show a poetic and philosophical production, “A Portrait with a Flying Clock. Marc Chagall, ‘My Life in Illustrations.’” The producer is Oksana Dmytriieva, a stage director at the Kharkiv Puppet Theater. It is not her first production in Poltava. She staged such plays as Antigone and Wings for Thumbelina, which have repeatedly taken part in festivals, much to the pleasure of audiences and critics. The producer applies some interesting techniques in the scenery, and the puppets are characters of Chagall’s pictures, which revive on stage. The scenery features the prevailing black and white colors that symbolize the artist’s graphics (scenography by the Kharkiv-based artist Natalia Denysova. The production’s incidental music is based on works by the contemporary French composer Pascal Comelade. The artistic duet of Dmytriieva and Denysova has also put on the production Antigone after Sophocles (plastique by Ruslan Nikonenko). The production of this tragedy, so unusual for puppet theaters, is a gem in the touring theater’s repertoire (pictured).
The Poltava actors will be playing on the stage of the Kyiv Puppet Theater.
