Staging and directing: Iroslav Petkov
Stage design and puppets: Iva Gikova, Ivaylo Nikolov
Music: Iroslav Petkov
Cast: Gergana Vasileva, Kaloyan Georgiev, Bilyana Raynova

Who hasn't heard this story?
The title - proverb!
The message - wise saw!
On the stage - folklore magic!
The puppets - wonderfull!
The actors - masters!

by Charles Perrault

Staging and directing: Elza Laleva

Stage design: Svila Velichkova

Music: Konstantin Tsekov

Cast: Vanya Kamyanska, Gergana Vasileva, Bilyana Raynova, Elitsa Stoyanova, Delyan Kyosev, Kaloyan Georgiev, Yancho Ivanov

Cinderella! Who hasn’t dream about her destiny? Who hasn’t wander “what could make me happy?” When bird lands on someone’s shoulder and why? ... No one knows. Still, we could learn from Cinderella’s story that luck goes to those who are ready for it. That goodness, sympathy and patience are always rewarded. And the greatest happiness comes when you find your soul mate, when you recognize him and fall in love … when you find your Prince. The old fairytale has lots of lessons. When it brings inspiration to a puppet performance that’s when the real magic comes. Messages become beautiful and powerful art. Only Theatre could do that and everyone who can feel it is blessed.


Elza Laleva - director

by Wilhelm Hauff
staging: Borislav Velichkovu
directed by: Ivan Raykov
stage design: Emil Ivanov
music: Danko Yordanov

Cats: Gergana Vasileva, Bilyana Raynova, Yancho Ivanov, Kaloyan Georgiev

Is it possible for a stupid, little gibe to change your life forever?!?

Wilm will pass from a carefree childhood, through the life of a hunchbacked dwarf to feel the ups and downs of life, people's contempt, respect and love...

Bulgarian Folk tale

Staging and directing: Vera Stoykova

Stage design: Kosta Ortodoksov

Music: Svetla Vasileva

Author: The Brothers Grimm

Staging: Ruben Garabedyan

Stage design and puppets: Elena Tsonkova

Cast: Georgi Spasov

It's a story about a poor tailor who gets one day a jar of marmalade from his neighbour. And just when he takes a bite a couple of flies come over. Tailor kills “seven of them with one shot”, decides that he is a hero and ventures out into the world to look for his fortune…

By L. Hofmann 
Dramatic version and direction – Slavcho Malenov
Stage design – Vasil Rokomanov
Music – Petar Tsankov

Marionette puppet performance, full with beauty and magic. Maya is a curious girl who falls into the world of elves and trolls. She experiences nice and difficult moments there and she finds a real friend of her – the Little Elf. The performance had a real success at the Fifth International Puppet Theatre Festival – Prague 2001.

PERFORMANCE FOR ADULTS

Staging: Yancho Ivanov
Scenography: Elitsa Stoyanova, Desislava Ilcheva
Music: Plamen Petkov

Cast: Elitsa Stoyanova, Desislava Ilcheva, Delyan Kyosev, Kaloyan Georgiev, Stanislav Matev

I look at myself
...a deadly rotation of monotony, counting moments of live with no colour

I think to myself
...the dreams that raise me and the illusions that eat me up...

"The Other" - the sincere story of the Man and his shadow
or the Shadow and it's chains - The Man...

Improvisations for adults

Production of the VIth International Art Laboratory

Staging: Ishtvan Nagi
Assistant: Gabiela Hadzhikostova
Music: Gabriela Vasileva
Masks: Nikolay Demerov, Zhivko Kanev

Commedia Dell'Arte is an improvised stage art born in the middle of XVI century in Italy. As it's  belived, the commedia has been based on the traditional ancient games influenced by the satires at that time.

The first written scenario is dated at 1568. Since 1570 the best troupes fascinate France and Italy with their plays. Commedia Dell'Arte still have its presence and influence on the modern dramaturgy and stage arts.

The improvisations are essential for the Commedia dell'Arte style, typical also for the street theatre at that time. Improvisation is the basic element of the performances of Stanislavski, Jerzy Grotowski, Giorgio Streler and Peter Brooks in XX century.

By Karel Capek
Playwright: Evelina Kyosovska
Staging: Evelina Kyosovska
Stage design: Krum Krumov
Puppets: Katina Peeva
Music: Petar Tsankov

There's nothing easier for a postman than delivering a letter. From one address to another, from one P.O.B to another. But what happens when there's no address on the envelope but so much love inside? When the postman called Callbaba meets the post-dwarfs? You'll find answers to all these questions in "The post story" on the stage of State Puppet Theatre - Stara Zagora!

  

Script and staging - Kiryakos Argilopulos
Stage design - Stefka Kyuvlieva
Music - Vladimir Dzhambazov
Song lyrics - Nikolay Andrekov

Everything in the puppets' village looks just like in an ordinary village with coloured houses, nice dogs, grumbling neigbours and laughing kids. Ani, Fani, Ivo and Nasko are four kids who love games, jokes and holidays. Until one day, by accident, they  puncture Nasko's balloon. Not just an ordinary balloon, but his favourite one. And as if in fun and as if in revenge, Nasko starts doings things ... not so good. Does it sound familiar to you? But how far an innocent revenge could go?

PERFORMANCE FOR ADULTS
/familly tragedy and farce based on the myths for Oedipus and the Sophocles tragedy "Oedipus The King"

Adaptation: Ruslan Kudashov - guest

Staging and direction: Ruslan Kudashov - guest

Stage design and puppets: Andrey Zaporozhski - guest

Musical settings: Vladimir Bichkovski - guest

"Sophocles has turned the blindness of Oedipus into a striking symbol. Taking out his own eyes, Oedipus makes the ignorance of men visible."

                                                                                     Andree Bonar

Author – Vesela Stoykova
Director – Darin Petkov
Stage design – Tsveta Koeva
Composer – Ivan Dragolov

The world is much more funnier and different when a the clever Mitra joins the clever Peter. An entertaining story, full with swordplay, about the adventures of the clever Peter from the Bulgarian folklore.

Dramaturgy and staging – Vera Stoykova
Stage design – Diana Uzunova
Music – Gergana Vasileva

Can you hear the bells? Is this….?
Santa Claus always feels when someone loves him. In our story, the characters encounter many obstacles, but the goodness and the songs will spoil the icy magic.