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Dear ladies and gentlemen!

Welcome to Cherkasy Academic Puppet Theatre!

Please note:
1. Choose the performance in advance, according to the age of your child.
2. Do not be late. Please come 15-20 minutes before the beginning of the performance in order to have enough time to buy tickets and take the best places))
3. Performances begin every Saturday and every Sunday at 10.30 and 12.00. Summertime - at 11.00. The beginning of adult performances is 19.00.
4. Please come neatly dressed to the theatre, behave yourself well and quietly.
5. Our address is Nebesna Sotnia, 4 St. (bus stop "Trade House", the theatre is on the corner of Khreshchatyk street and Nebesna Sotnia street).
6. Have a nice watching!

Calendar

Performances for children:

Premiere 2022 Hello, see you!
Premiere 2021 Thumbelina
Premiere 2021 Harry Potter is you!
Premiere 2020 I want to be an adult
Premiere 2020 Nightingale of the dark grove

Performances for adults:

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About Cherkasy Puppet Theatre

1965 – the premiere of the first performance "The Rose of the Carpathians" by Pierre Gamarra.

1970 - the theatre becomes regional.
1980 – the premiere of the performance "Mary Poppins", which was significant for the Ukrainian puppet theatre as a whole.

2006 - providing academic status to the theatre (director of the theatre - Liubov Velychko, artistic director - Yaroslav Hrushetskyi).

2012 - XXI World Congress of UNIMA and The World Festival of Puppet Theatres (Chengdu, China, "The Adventures of Merry Pedestrians").

2013 – 28th International Theatre Festival for children (Nabul, Tunisia, performance "The Dog was crossing the bridge").

2014 – 36th International Festival of Puppet Theatres (Mistelbach, Austria, performances " One Day in Auntie Maryna's Life”, «The Fox, the Cat, and the Cock", a venerable performance "Cossak").

2017 – **The 2 nd International Art Week of the Puppet Theatre of the Pacific region countries ** (Nanchong, China, performance "The Fox, the Cat, and the Cock").

2017 – 39th International Festival of Puppet Theatres (Mistelbach, Austria, performance "The Grandmother and the Bear").

Today the artistic originality of the theatre is determined by the work of the chief director - the Honored Art Worker of Ukraine, the Doctor of Philosophy Yaroslav Hrushetskyi, the chief artist of the theatre - laureate of the Cabinet of Ministers of Ukraine Prize named after Lesia Ukraiinka, Honored Artist of Ukraine Karina Chepurna, composer Serhii Kulynych, artists: Serhii and Vitalina Martynenko, Nadiia Pliachenko, Tatiana Pererva, Olena Barannyk, Oleksandra Lukianova and others; and actors: Honored Artist of Ukraine Maria Rebiakova, Olha Melnyk, Olena Novachenko, Antonina Kashner, Nataliia Fisenko, Anna Panova, Daryna Kharchenko, Vasyl Zavhorodnii, Oleksandr Shvydkyi, Mykola Korol, Yurii Miaus, Serhii Tabashniuk.
Director - artistic director of the theatre is Honored Culture Worker of Ukraine Liubov Velychko..

shows

Thumbelina

based on Andersen's tale

Text and staging - Yaroslav Hrushetskyi
scenography and theatrical puppets - Karina Chepurna
The music: Eugene Pustovoit
Actors: Antonina Kashner, Darina Kharchenko, Mikola Korol
Premiere 2021


-"Inch!" - and you are not in this world yet ...
-"Inch!" - and you already are!
-And what is an "inch"?
-By inches determine the height of little girls...
Many questions, all important, all main... And the answers to them depend on whether your wings will grow...

Harry Potter is you!

A fairy tale for everyone

A. Kashner, M. Korol, Y. Hrushetskyi
Director: Yaroslav Hrushetskyi
Stage designer: Karina Chepurna
The music: Eugene Pustovoit
Premiere 2021


-What should I do? I don't know ... Maybe we should call someone who knows ... And who? I don't know ... And who knows? Yes I know!
We can lose. We can be afraid. But it is worthless, the main thing is that we will fight. Harry Potter, you and I are all together!

Nightingale of the dark grove

A fairy tale from a poet.

TARAS SHEVCHENKO
Director: Yaroslav Hrushetskyi
Stage designer: Karina Chepurna
choirmaster: Elena Belkina
Premiere 2020


We were flipping through the pages of a book of poetry ... And we came across a miracle ... This miracle blossomed with colors and miracle birds ... And songs, and poems ... And poetic sorrow ... And a new fairy tale ...