INTERNATIONAL PUPPET FESTIVAL TO BE HELD ON SEPTEMBER 6-10 IN DSEGH

Noyan Tapan
Sep 6, 2007

YEREVAN, SEPTEMBER 6, NOYAN TAPAN. International Puppet Festival under
the title Tale Day will be held on September 6-10 in the village
of Dsegh, Lori region, on the initiative of the Armenian Center of
the Union Internationale de la Marionette (UNIMA). Armen Safarian,
the Chairman of the Center, said this in his interview to Noyan
Tapan correspondent.

According to him, this year puppet theaters’ creative groups from
Armenia, Javakhk, the Ukraine, Lithuania, and Russia will take part in
the festival being held for already the second year. 18 performances
created on the basis of tales created by various peoples will be shown
in the native village of great Armenian poet Hovhannes Tumanian within
the framework of the festival.

A. Safarian said that the festival also gives newly created puppet
theaters the possibility to take part in it and to present their
performances. "One of festival’s goals is to help newly created and
young puppet theaters’ creative groups to get acquainted with the
rich experience of professional theaters and to establish immediate
contacts with them," he said.

Among Armenian regions, theater groups of Ijevan, Metsamor, Gyumri,
and Charentsavan, as well as the theater group of Khnko Aper National
Children’s Library will take part in the festival.

As the Chairman of the UNIMA Armenian Center said, the Armenian
delegation represented by the UNIMA Armenian Center’s Karapet puppet
theater will also take part in the Puppet Theaters’ International
Congress to be held next year in Australia.