INTERNATIONAL FESTIVAL OF PUPPET AND CHILDREN’S THEATER TO BE HELD FOR FIRST TIME IN ARMENIA
Noyan Tapan News Agency, Armenia
Sept 28 2005
YEREVAN, SEPTEMBER 28, NOYAN TAPAN – ARMENIANS TODAY. An International
Festival of Puppet and Children’s Theater will be organized for the
first time in Armenia within the framework of the “Hayfest” third
international festival to be held from September 28 through October
6 in Yerevan. This year 6 Armenian and 3 foreign theaters will
participate in the Puppet Festival, including Novokuznetsk “Skaz”
theater, Czechia’s “Ludem” theater and London Theater of Academy
of Arts.
As Ruben Babayan, Art Director of Hovhannes Tumanian Puppet Theater,
mentioned in his interview to Noyan Tapan’s correspondent, the
organization of the International Festival of Puppet Theater is
an unprecedented fenomenon in Armenia. According to him, the first
Yerevan Puppet Festival will be registered in the information center
of “Yunima” (international organization of puppet theaters) where
all festivals of the kind held in the world are registered.
Ruben Babayan also said that after this festival, in the second half
of October, the All-Armenian Puppet Festival will start in Armenia.