‘KuklArt’ Magazine

Issue 8/2014

Dear reader,

This issue, which we made together with the young colleague Mihail Baykov, is the result of the constant ambition of KuklArt to attract young fellow theatre critics to the cause of puppet theatre. That is why we have dedicated this issue to the young. Practically, their texts fill the pages of the magazine. At the same time, we wanted as many of them as possible to be translated into English, so that their names would become recognizable abroad as well. Among the authors there are those who write their first texts in general, and not only for puppet theater. We are convinced that this ‘investment’ is productive, that it portends a better future for our puppet theater critics.

The discussion pathos of most of the texts is also sought. They continue the controversy about the relationship between the actor and the doll, about the actor in front of the screen, who increasingly displacing the doll, etc. This controversy is old, but with constant relevance. Is it possible for the puppet theatre to exist in its hitherto defined field, or is ‘this’ theatre dying to give birth to a new one? Is the sinusoid the curve of the rebirth and ‘dying’ of the familiar puppet theatre? Or is a descending line – a sign of doom…

The third ace in our hand is the expanded volume of information from abroad – theory, conversations, information. The efforts of our class lose some of their meaning if they are not comparable to the efforts of our colleagues around the world.

The fourth ace is you, reader…

 

Nikola Vandov
Editor-in-chief

ArticlesContents

Festivals and Forums

A letter to my absent friend

— Katerina Georgieva

Festivals and Forums

Tremendous Joy and Silent Melancholy in Varna

— Nikola Vandov

Festivals and Forums

Theater and the Street

— Stanislava Kirilova

Festivals and Forums

The Flying Classroom

— Katerina Georgieva

Reviews

The Dream of the Conductor

— Mihail Baykov

Reviews

To Fly Means to Believe

— Elena Angelova

Reviews

A Play upon Words

— Katerina Georgieva

Reviews

The Lighthouse of Subconsciousness

— Viliya Monovska

Contents

Dear Readers… – Nikola Vandov

Theory, History, Experience, Polemics

Panta Rhei – Henryk Jurkowski

The Theater of Materials and How Does It Refer to Puppet Art – a Book with Great Variety of Topics – Milena Milanova

The Puppet Is a Soldier who Needs to Take a Rest – Mihail Baykov Talks to Nina Màlikova

Educative and Therapeutic Puppet Theater – Directions and Opportunities – Mihaela Tyuleva

Water Puppet Theater – Bina Angelova Talks to Miroslav Tzvetanov and Roza Nikolova

About Children and Puppet Theater – Albena Tagareva

A Theater Without Stairs – Sophia Kozich

Profiles

About Something Else which is True – Mihail Baykov Talks to Prof. Nikolina Georgieva

I love the shows that I perform in. Every time I play as if it were my first time – Boyan Zhelyazkov Talks to the Actress Maya Bezhanska

Festivals and Forums

XV Internation Festival of Children’s Performances ‘The Magic Curtain’, Targovishte, Bulgaria

Festival’s Passport

Behind the Magic Curtain – Gergana Pirozova, Yoana Spasova-Dikova

XXI International Puppet Theatre Festival ‘Three Are Too Many – Two Not Enough’ and TheatAir, Plovdiv, Bulgaria

Festival’s Passport

A letter to my absent friend – Katerina Georgieva

Conversations from Plovdiv – Boryana Georgieva Talks to Participants in the Festival and Members of the Jury

XVI International Puppet Festival ‘The Golden Dolphin’, Varna, Bulgaria

Festival’s Passport

Tremendous Joy and Silent Melancholy in Varna – Nikola Vandov

Тhe Puppets Can Do Anything – Milena Mincheva

Conversations from Varna – Milena Mincheva Talks to Participants in the Festival and Members of the Jury

8th International Festival for Street and Puppet Theatre ‘Puppet Fair’, Sofia, Bulgaria

Festival’s Passport

Fair of Hope – Emiliya Ilieva

Theater and the Street – Stanislava Kirilova

The Magic of Drak Theater – Emiliya Ilieva

An Unusual Meeting between the Street and ‘Macbeth’ – Viliya Monovska

A Conference for the Full Face of Street Theatre – Emiliya Ilieva

Tradition and Present of the Czech Puppet

Conversations from Sofia – Boris Zafirov Talks to Participants in ‘Puppet Fair 2014’

III International Festival for Children and Youth Audience ‘Adults Forbidden’, Smolyan, Bulgaria

Festival’s Passport

The Flying Classroom – Katerina Georgieva

The Art Hayal – Boryana Georgieva Talks to Haluk Yüce from Shadow Theater ‘Tempo’, Ankara, Turkey

Reviews

The Dream of the Conductor – Mihail Baykov

Semiotic Signs and Polyphonic Imagery in ‘The Tempest’ – Patricia Nikolova

About the Advantages of the Authors’ Text – Patricia Nikolova

To Fly Means to Believe – Elena Angelova

The Playful Beginning in Theater – Useful and Enjoyable for the Smallest Viewers of Puppet Theater – Elena Angelova

A Play upon Words – Katerina Georgieva

The Lighhouse of Subconsciousness – Viliya Monovska

From Kipling to the Old Testament – Sophia Kozich

Art on the Wall – Katerina Georgieva

A swirling world of coloured imagination – Maria Carneiro

Information

In memoriam

Elena Vladova (2.2.1945 – 14.10.2014)

Binka Miteva (1924 – 2014)

Kosta Dimitrov (1952 – 2014)

Valeri Petrov (22.4.1920 – 27.8.2014)