‘KuklArt’ Magazine
Issue 6/2012
Dear reader,
Miracles are possible not only in fairy tales, so obsessed with our puppet theatre. They, rare but constantly expected, also happen on your weekdays. For example, the sixth issue of your puppetry magazine KuklArt is coming out.
It so happened that this issue is more captivated than ever by the element of street theater. Without wondering if he is always a puppet – let’s not be pedants! – let’s look at the manifestations of this Theatre, which is beginning to enter our streets, squares and gardens. With his apparent unpretentiousness and sincere poverty, he won us. And he is hardly to blame for the fact that, as things have started with our theatrical changes, maybe this will be the future of our theater at all. I would like to be here in brackets to write: Joke! But it’s not funny.
It is a miracle that, in spite of everything, performances are born in our puppet theater that honor our culture. In a year, ‘A Tale of the Wanderer-King’ and ‘World’ about the Sofia Puppet Theatre, and ‘The Lost Key’ will be published in Puppet Theatre – Vidin, and ‘Embedding’ in Puppet Theatre – Plovdiv… I must miss a show that deserves to be in this amazing series.
This is what the current issue of KuklArt tells about your days, about the holidays you, for what makes your efforts meaningful, for your life.
Let me end with the wonderful words of Kristin Dimitrova from the poem ‘We’:
Seen from afar, we look alike
A pile of dolls.
Or a merry circus.
Through the darkness of their bodies,
under the bars of the wooden limbs,
I like talking to people.
Sometimes they hear me.
Nikola Vandov
Editor-in-chief
Articles Contents
Festivals and Forums
Theater for children or the admissible capacity of dealing in the temple
— Dimitar Chernev
Festivals and Forums
Monologue for Street Theater
— Boryana Georgieva recorded the monologue of the scenographer prof. Maya Petrova
Contents
Dear Readers… – Nikola Vandov
Theory, History, Experience, Polemics
Standpoint of AKT-UNIMA and the state puppet theaters
A Triple Anniversary – Slavcho Malenov
‘Hot Spots’ in Puppet Theater – Velimir Velev
About life and profession choices, about the truth and everything else – A conversation of Silvia Hristova with the actor Stanimir Gumov
A portrait attempt of the artist Svila Velichkova – Elsa Laleva
Festivals and Forums
ХIII International Festival of Children’s Performances ‘The Magic Curtain’, Targovishte, Bulgaria
Theater for children or the admissible capacity of dealing in the temple – Dimitar Chernev
‘The Magic Curtain’ – …(mani)Fest(ival) of children – Katerina Georgieva
On the edge of drama or Conversation about the children of the new age and their poor theater. – Mihail Baykov talks to the jury members – Yoana Spasova, Elsa Laleva and Katerina Georgieva
ХХ International Puppet Theatre Festival ‘Three Are Too Many – Two Not Enough’, Plovdiv, Bulgaria
Festival’s Passport
Three Are Too Many – Two Not Enough – Bogdana Kosturkova
Playing with wonders – Stanislava Kirilova
Notes from Plovdiv 2012 – Nikola Vandov
Conversations from Plovdiv – Boryana Georgieva talks to Veselka Kuncheva, Hristina Arsenova, Pavlina Trifonova, Adelina Ilieva, Krasimir Kolev and Victor Boychev
20 years of ‘Three are too many – Two not enough’ – Patrizia Nikolova talks to Victor Boychev and Leo Capon
VII International Festival For Street And Puppet Theatre ‘Puppet Fair’, Sofia, Bulgaria
Festival’s Passport
The Ephemeral Pass of Happiness – Svetla Beneva
VII edition – Bogdana Kosturkova
High points in ‘Puppet Fair’, 2012 – Patrizia Nikolova
Music and clowns – Vilia Monovska
Notes from Sofia 2012 – Nikola Vandov
Sincerely for ‘Holy’. The article includes also a conversation among the director Duda Paiva and the actresses Marieta Petrova and Tzvetoslava Simeonova – Silvia Hristova
Monologue for Street Theater – Boryana Georgieva recorded the monologue of the scenographer prof. Maya Petrova
We do not let the crowd carry us along – Katerina Georgieva talks to the actors from Atom Theater
‘Adults Forbidden’. 1st International Performing Arts Festival for Children and Youth Audience, Smolyan, Bulgaria
Travelling free of bans – Vilia Monovska
Conversations from Smolyan – Boryana Georgieva talks to Petar Todorov, Tom Greder and Kalina Vagenshtain
Reviews
‘Immurement’ or the Prostrated Master Manol – Mitko Novkov
The Tale of the Tramp King – Patrizia Nikolova
Tale of the Wandering of Kindness – Vilia Monovska
Pumpkin Jam – Mihail Baykov
Shuli Belo and the little big viewer – Patrizia Nikolova
Information
‘The Mousy King’ after the guest performance in China – Patrizia Nikolova talks to Katya Petrova and Konstantin Iliev
‘Sivina’ Award 2012 – Silvia Hristova
Shiroka Luka Theater Academy