cast: Andrej Danyilov, Oleg Zverev, Ilja Arhipov

stage design: Igor Szemenov

music: Tatyjána Bobrova

directed by: Nagyezsda Alekszejeva

The puppet theatre performance is based on motives and themes from Scottish fairy tales. Paper puppets made with meticulous precision tell the story of a cunning giant, a brave prince and a beautiful lady. As it usually happens in fairy tales, the prince proves to be cleverer than the giant in the end and wins the lady’s hand. The beautifully-dressed characters are born out of/from crumpled paper, sweet wrappers and silver foil in the front of the audience’s eyes.

Last October they received the special jury award in the Bananikkalla International Theatre Festival in Tallin for the inventiveness and expressiveness of the performance.

The ‘Theatre for Children and Youth “Maly”’ was founded 15 years ago. They have staged theatre performances in several genres since, from puppet theatre plays to adaptations of classic playwrights. They have won awards on a number of Russian and international festivals. Since 1992, they have organised a biennial international festival themselves in Velikiy Novgorod which focuses on the genre of the fairy tale.

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