December, 5 th. The first night of the“Tempest” by Shakespeare!
October, 30th and 31st. Big poster advertisements are hung out all over the city: “The Gift of The Tsar of the Sea” – on a chamber stage of AMDT – Europe Theatre. First night!!!A performance is produced on the grant of Culture Committee within Saint Petersburg Government. This is an interactive play for family viewing. “Fairy-tale about fisherman and fish” by Pushkin and “Gift of a Sea King” by a Finnish classicist Sacarias Topelius underlie the play. It’s about a greedy old woman and nature which can’t be eternally generous as well as can’t allow people to showboat itself. When its patience is over it drops a greedy-guts with a broken wash-tub. Children should learn this since green years.
The play is devoted to a Russian literature’s great nurse Arina Rodionovna who has told legends of Finno-Ugric tribes to her nursling. That is to say that Pushkin’s fairy-tale about Russian old man and woman living by a blue sea is far and by a Finnish one. Students from Turku Art Academy who have done an internship at the “Kukolny format” are also involved into the project
Advisable age of young viewers is since 5 years.
October, 7th . We bring the “The Gift of the Tsar of the Sea” to Finland, namely to the Turku Art Academy.
October, – we make a scene at the festival in Espoo (Finland).
September, 26th «Rider CUPRUM» in Perm at the regional festival “Gold Mask”, “The Best Plays of Puppet-Shows”. The first night of the “The Gift of the Tsar of the Sea” at the ESOD.
20.06.08The work on a children performance based upon Pushkin’s and Topelius’ fairy-tales is started. It will be called a “Gift of a Sea King”. The project is produced on the grant of Culture Committee within Saint Petersburg Government. Students from Turku Art Academy take part in the performance. One of the first meeting in the workshop of the “Puppet format”. 24.05.08 «Robin» at the festival "Snail" in Penza.
24.05. 2008 We take part in the VIII PETERSBURG CARNIVAL devoted to the city’s birthday. Petrouchkas by Olya Donets participate in the program “People are dolls, dolls are people” at the Art Square.. (Picture-story by our theatre’s friend Irina Kochneva (>>>>)
14-15 .05.08 We play in Stockholm on the stage of the Central Swedish Dolls’ Theatre “Tittoot”... read more
22.04.08. Awarding Ceremony of Prize Winners of the XII Festival “Saint Petersburg Theatres to Children”. Diplomas and prizes were awarded to producer and artist Anna “For creation a scenic dolls’ area” as well as to actresses “For splendid feminine roles performance in a play”.
21.04.08 "Cat» takes part in the 5th All-Russian Festival of Theatre Arts for Children “Harlequin” (Saint Petersburg).
October 10.02.08. «Robin» is performed in a Jewish Community Center. After the performance process planners of the theatre give a master-class teaching children how to make a marionette.
2 -7.01.08 A new children play "Morozko".Poems, songs, riddles, New Year’s stories form the basis of the play and latterly a Russian folk story is performed about one kind girl, one not kind girl and about malicious stepmother punished for perfidy by the Jack Frost.
2008! Happy new year!
December, 20th – 23rd 2007“Puppet format” is in Palermo participating in the FESTIVAL DI MORGANA and performig "Crime and Punishment". "Delitto e Castigo" is Italian for.
October, 4 -11.2007 We go to the festival “Norilsk seasons” beyond the Arctic Circle. All-Russain show “The Crime and Punishment”.
26 – 31.10.2007 - a Festival devoted to the 5th anniversary of the “Puppet format” is conducted in its Auditorium. All the plays are intended to be performed. First night “The Crime and Punishment”..
September, 30.2007 “Robin” is performed at the festival “The Best Plays of the Dolls’ Theatres in Perm” held by the “Golden Mask”.
APRIL, 14 -2007. Moskow!!!!! The Golden Mask National Theatre Award and Festival ! WINNERS OF THE GOLDEN MASK AWARD IN 2007 – “Kukolny format” with “Robin Bobin”!!!!! ( Best Production and Best Designer Anna Viktorova). WOW!!!!!!!!!!
30/03/2007 “Puppet format” participates in “Days of Frankofony”. We await spectators from Switzerland, France, Canada, Africa…
09/02/2007Fedor Dostoevsky’s remembrance day. After the funeral service in a memorial flat we act out an episode from the play “Puppet Crime and Punishment”. There are great experts of Dostoevsky’s creative work in the audience hall. And their references are mostly benevolent.
07/01/2007 We arranged a children matinee for inmates of Children’s Homes. We presented our new work – a “Fairy Tale about Crocodiles” after Blez Sandrar’s “Negro Fairy Tales for Caucasian Children”... It’s an edifying story which Blez Sandrar has been probably told by African missionaries. The main characters of the fairy tale are a family of very perfidious crocodiles as they should be. However they are not very far-sighted. Basically stupidity often adjoins perfidy.
At first crocodiles have offended the birds - and birds have drunk water from crocodiles’ lake. Remained low water green reptiles have bitterly cried and persuaded a passing by hunter to carry them to water. (A doll of the hunter, a protagonist of a fairy tale, Anna Viktorova has made on a photo of Blez Sandrar - portrait similarity is obvious). In spite the hunter has suspected that didn’t need to trust crocodiles he nevertheless has agreed to help them. He has taken on his back five alligators - the daddy, mum, twin-brothers and their little sister - and brought them all to the next lake. And when crocodiles felt they were in secure, they have attacked the hunter. And all would end badly if not a faint-hearted but clever hare running by. It has rescued the hunter and crocodiles have been punished for the perfidy.
The fairy tale comes to the end with a sad song of crocodiles’ family.
That is, the good triumphs, and there is a topic for discussion with the younger generation on the way home. However the most important thing is that on an example of this history it is easy to explain to naive youth what crocodiles’ tears are...
2007 Farewell, 2006!
December, 5th 2006. The nominees of the National theatrical Award "Gold Mask" of 2007 have been declared today in Moscow. Among them there is our unpredictable food buff "Robin-Bobbin" - in a category "Artist’s work" and "Performance".
December, 4th 2006. We participate in the International charitable contribution "Smile" - together with our partners, the Swiss Center, the Centre "Helenika" and the Hotel "Helventsiya" we visit children from Children's sanatorium for consumptives "Baby" in Pushkin.>>>
November, 23rd 2006. Festival "Palaces of Saint Petersburg are for children". Our spectators are pupils from boarding schools and children's homes of Leningrad region. Employees of a Dostoevsky’s museum have demonstrated them a memorial apartment of the writer and “Puppet format” has played "Robin Bobbin". Charles Abbott has made a picture >>>
On October, 23rd 2006. 20.00, time Moscow. The Petersburg flood on a global scale!!! The Internet translation of the play "Horseman CUPRUM" begins worldwide from an auditorium of the Dostoevsky’s Museum. The festival "Theatrical spider’s web" is held with support of the Federal Agency on Culture and Cinematography. That is, our dolls are supported by the state and the Internet project "Kultu.Ru!".
The fourth theatrical season the “Puppet format” will start in a global format - we have been invited to participate in the Third Internet festival "THEATRICAL WEB". Check www.cultu.ru and www.kultu.ru for details. This is a unique theatrical project aimed at distribution of achievements of the Russian art and expansion of a spectator audience by means of modern high technologies.
September, 29th.Last day of the festival named after Sergey Obraztsov in Moscow. Our food buff "Robin-Bobbin" has not put in a spot. September, 17th-19th 2007. “Puppet format” is in a legendary Ural zone namely in Yekaterinburg at the Third International Festival "Great Petrouchka". We play "Robin Bobbin" and become winners in the category "The best author's performance for children" unforeseen in advance.
September, 13-14th 2007. We participate in the festival "Manifesti" in Turku. We have performed "Horseman" and "Robin Bobbin".
August, 22nd – 27th 2007. KUKFO with the "Circus on threads" by Victor Antonov is in a polar circle taking part in the International Doll Festival "7 + 7 Solos" in Lapland, in Rovaniemi. The festival purpose consists in presenting a special genre of doll representation "solo" when there is only one actor on a stage working with puppets and/or objects. Picture
On August, 22nd. “Puppet format” participates in the First Petersburg Modern Art Biennale 2006. A project presentation «It is played with Dostoevsky» is conducted in the Dostoevsky's Museum.
August, 3rd-4th. «Robin Bobbin» is performed at the festival "Hippalot" in Hameenlinne. It is a holiday which is annually arranged for children - except theatres of dolls, exhibitions, cinema and other traditional pleasures, there are every day master classes arranged and concerts non-stop passed on the central Market square. Even a heavy rock takes place there; it’s a special rock for kids, with texts based on kindergarten themes about Mummi-Trolls, Winnie-the-Pooh and other. It is easy to understand why a hot Finnish rock band “LORDI” has won Eurovision-2006. Photoreport.
June, 25th-28th. A «Cat which …» mews in Poland on a stage of Vrotslavsky Dolls’ Theatre. The II International Festival of Puppeteers’ Debuts takes place there (picture - S.Dorozhko, A.Zorin).
On June, 5th we play the "Horseman CUPRUM" at the FIFTH FESTIVAL "THEATRICAL ISLAND".
On May, 15th. A Festival “Theatres of Saint Petersburg to children” 2006 is summed up. Two diplomas for “Actor's Duet in the Episode” in the performance “House Which Was Constructed by Jack” have been granted to Irina Zimina and Peter Vasilyev. Such a wonderful category! We congratulate our heroes!
1.04.06. It looks like an April Fools' joke but it is only too true: Rezo Gabriadze has attended our performance "Rider CUPRUM". An armchair which our guru sat on is now being considered by us as a sight of auditorium.
March, 24th-28th. The III International Festival of Dolls’ Theatres Chamber Performances "Moscow vacation" has passed in Moscow. March, 1st. The "III Theatrical festival "A Director is a female profession" has been opened. We participate in it playing "Rider CUPRUM" in a Theatre Upstairs.
2006
December 5, 2006. The nominees of national Russian festival
of performing arts Golden Mask Awards 2007 have been announced in Moscow today.
Our unpredictable foodie “Robin-Bobin”
is among them, nominated for the Best Designer and the Best Puppet Production.
December
4, 2006. Together with our partners Swiss Center, International Center
of Cultural and Scientific Cooperation HELENIKA we take part in International
Charity Action SMILE. We visit children from sanatorium for consumptives in
Pushkin. (photo)
November 23, 2006. The Festival Palaces of St Petersburg
to Children. Our spectators are schoolchildren from orphanages of Leningrad
region
October 23, 2006. 20.00, Moscow time. Petersburg inundation
on a global basis!!! From the Dostoevsky Museum Theatre hall on Kuznechny Lane,
via Internet, the performance
"Rider CUPRUM" will be transmissed all over the world. The Festival "Theatre
Web" is conducted with the support of the Federal Agency of Culture and
Cinematography. Thus, our puppets are supported by the State and the Internet-project
" Cultu.Ru!"
September 29, 2006. “Robin the Bobbin” takes part in Sergey
Obraztsov’s festival in Moscow.
September
17-19, 2006. KUKFO participates in 3-d International Festival PETRUSHKA
THE GREAT in Yekaterinburg, the legendary “Ural zone”. We perform “Robin the
Bobbin” and get the prize for the best original show for kids, that was made
especially for us.
On
August, 22 -- 27 KUKFO with "Circus on strings" after Viktor Antonov in
International Solo Puppet Theatre Festival. Rovaniemi, Finland. Seven plus Seven
Solos festival introduces seven solo puppet theatre artsists from Finland and
seven from other countries. The The purpose of the festival is to present the
special genre of solo puppetry - one actor or actress alone on the stage creating
the performance together with puppets and/or objects and images.
On August, 22nd. " KUKFO " participates in the First Petersburg
biennial of the modern art ' 2006. There is the Presentation of the project
"Play with Dostoevsky " in Dostoevsky's Museum. We have shown puppets of the
future performance "Crime and punishment".
On
August, 3-4rd. " Robin the Bobbin " in Hameenlinna, Finland on "Hippalot"
- Arts Festival for Children. (photo)
25
- 28. 06.2006. KUKFO in Poland. " The Cat, That..." mews in Wroclaw Puppet
Theatre at the II International Puppet Artists Debuts Festival (photo).
March,
24 - 28th. The third International festival of chamber performances of theatres
of dolls " Moscow vacation " has passed in Moscow. We have shown " Robin the
Bobbin ".
On
November, 25th and 26. " Rider CUPRUM " at festival "Russian
seasons" in Helsinki. The Finnish public empathized our heroes - for this
many thanks to the employee of Institute of Finland in St.-Petersburg Saara
Ratilainen which has made translation of the play, and to Finnish film director
Maria Lappalajnen which conducted simultaneous interpretation in cultural center
STOA. Photo
On October, 5th and 6. The first night of "Robin the
Bobbin" took place in Dostoevsky museum. Photo
October, 30th. Birthday of a poem of Pushkin " The Copper
horseman ". Photo
September,
17th. Kukolny format participates
in The third International Sergey Obraztsov's festival of puppet theatres in
Moscow with "The Cat, That..."
On September, 7-9th. Vologda. "Kukolny format " participates
in the VI Russian-Finnish cultural forum -- Suomalais-venäläisen kulttuurifoorumitoimi.
18-22.08
"Kukolny format " acts in Slovenia. We show premiere "Robin
the Bobbin " on International festival for children " MINI SUMMER
2005 ", Ljubljana and International puppet festival Summer Puppet Pier
in Maribor. Robin-Bobin
(Delo, 20. 8. 2005). Prize of children's jury " 25 stars "
July 1-3, 2005. Kukolny Format theatre is concluding
its third season. A “Rider Cuprum” playbill is on the playbill of St. Petersburg’s
Academic Maly Drama Theatre - Theatre
of Europe . The play is performed on the theatre’s Chamber Stage.
June 22 - 28, 2005. Seventh International KukART
Festival of puppet theatre is held in St. Peterburg.“Rider Cuprum”is played. MINI-TEATER
from Ljubljana, Slovenia presents “A Tale of Tsar Saltan” (Pravljica
o Carju Saltanu) in the Marionette Theatre on Nevsky Prospect. This play,
based on A.S. Pushkin’s poem, was staged with the participation of Anna Victorova
as an artist. There is a great deal of dancing and music, and of Pushkin’s poetry
in Slovenian. Saltan received a special honourary KukART diploma “for the support
of Russia’s cultural heritage”.
The
night of April 11, 2005. Moscow. The ceremony of handing out Golden
Mask awards in Mossoviet Theatre. We, naturally, dreamt of receiving
at least one. But received two after all. One was given to Anna Victorova as
a director, the second one to “Rider Cuprum” as the best play in the puppet
nomination. Thank you, Moscow! Viva St. Petersburg!
April 9, 2005. Kukolny Format performs in Moscow at Golden
Mask festival. The performance takes place in an affiliate of the Pushkin Theatre
in Sytinsky pereulok, 3/25. At 11 p.m. there is a special night screening
of the “Night Watch” blockbuster for its creators and their friends and relatives.
December 14, 2005. Nominees for the Golden Mask 2005 award are named,
and Kukolny Format is among them!!! “Rider Cuprum” is in three different nominations.
As we know from Russian history, on December 14, 1825 (i.e. exactly 179 years
ago), the Decembrist Uprising took place in St. Petersburg’s Senate Square,
at the site of the Copper Horseman statue (one of the main characters of our
play).
2004
December 1, 2004. “A Boy at Christ’s Party” play is performed in Dostoevsky
Museum. Teenagers from a Kolpino colony for juvenile delinquents participate
in this staging. This is the continuation of “On the Way to Freedom” project,
begun by the Dostoevsky Museum, the White Theatre and the Kukolny Format theatre
in 2003.
November 21-30, 2004. “The Cat That…” play is presented
at the Thirteenth Annual “Palaces of St. Petersburg for Children” charity festival.
The spectators are children from children’s homes.
September 27 - October 2, 2004. Shadows begin to speak
Finnish. A performance of “The Cat That…” is held in Turku, Finland.
April 23, 2004. “Picnic” is shown in Wroclaw, Poland
at the First International Puppet Artists’ Debuts Festival.
March 23, 2004. “The Cat That…” is presented at “Moscow
Vacation”, the first international Festival of Chamber Puppet Theatres. It is
awarded a diploma as the festival’s “most touching play”.
March 7 and 15, 2005. Premiere of “Notes from the House
of the Dead” play, based on Dostoevsky’s novel, takes place at a club in Kolpino
colony for juvenile delinquents and in the Dostoevsky Museum. The uniqueness
of “On the Way to Freedom” project is in that sixteen kids from the colony participate
in it alongside with professional White Theatre and Kukolny Format actors. 250
inmates and their parents were spectators of the play. The preparation of the
premiere took up several months. Since autumn of 2003 till spring of 2004 we
went to Kolpino, working on “A Boy at Christ’s Party” puppet fragment, created
by stage artist Anna Viktorova and actors Peter Vasilyev and Roman Oushakov.
March - April, 2004. Participation in the 13th “St.
Petersburg Theatres for the Children” festival. "The Cat That … " is named the
“best performance for family viewing ". "Horseman Cuprum" received an incentive
diploma for the best treatment of the theme of St. Petersburg. Anna Viktorova
named "the best puppet theatre set designer"(for "Horseman Cuprum"),Victor Antonov received an award for technological solutions in performance
(for "Horseman Cuprum" as well). Four diplomas!
2003
2003. Premiere of “The Cat That…” play takes place in
Dostoevsky Museum. This is “a wild tale for kids and grownups” based on Rudyard
Kipling’s work.
October 30-31, November 1, 2003. Premiere of “Rider
Cuprum”, a play whose genre has been defined by its author as a St. Petersburg
legend about love. Exactly 170 years ago Alexander Pushkin finished writing
the final draft of the “first Petersburg novel”, his “Copper Horseman” poem.
We dedicate our premiere to this anniversary.
June, 2003. Participation in the internationalKukART Festival
in St. Petersburg. The theatre is awarded a diploma.
June, 2003. Participation in the Week of Norway in St. Petersburg.
May, 2003. Participation in the First St. Petersburg Clowns Festival.
May, 2003. Participation in the picnic dedicated to the 300th Anniversary
of St. Petersburg on Yelagin Island. The first performance of “The Cat That…”
May, 2003. Participation in the Dostoevsky Museum’s “Physiology of St.
Petersburg” anniversary performance. “Beta” version of “Rider Cuprum” is shown.
2002
Summer, 2002. Director Svetlana Ozerskaya and theatre artist Anna
Victorova hold a master class at the Theatre Island festival. Staging of the
“Teremok” (“Log Cabin”) play in the city’s specialized orphanage number 40.
Spring, 2002. An anti-war project is held in co-production with
the Soldiers' Mothers of St. Petersburg public organization. The performanceof “Picnic” is shown during a seminar with parents of young men drawn for
military service.
December
4, 2006. Together with our partners Swiss Center, International Center
of Cultural and Scientific Cooperation HELENIKA we take part in International
Charity Action SMILE. We visit children from sanatorium for consumptives in
Pushkin. (
March,
24 - 28th. The third International festival of chamber performances of theatres
of dolls " Moscow vacation " has passed in Moscow. We have shown " Robin the
Bobbin ".
