H. TUMANIAN PUPPET THEATER TO MARK ITS 70th ANNIVERSARY WITH ITS PERMANENT AND BELOVED SPECTATORS
Noyan Tapan News Agency, Armenia
Sept 28 2005
YEREVAN, SEPTEMBER 28, NOYAN TAPAN. Hovhannes Tumanian Puppet Theater
will celebrate its 70th anniversary in the first decade of October.
Theater’s executives decided to celebrate the anniversary in a
non-traditional way. As Noyan Tapan’s correspondent was informed by
Ruben Babayan, theater’s Art Director, theater’s collective will spend
the jubilee with their permanent and beloved spectators, children. In
October the theater will have 4 benevolent performances for parentless
children and those attending special schools.
“For a theatrical figure the greatest occasion is pleasing the
spectators and when they are glad this is the greatest occasion. I
think that marking the jubilee with the spectators is the most
efficient way,” Ruben Babayan mentioned.
Derenik Martirosian, an actor of the Puppet Theater who has worked
there for many years, has written a book about theater’s history on
the occasion of the jubilee. He is a great connoisseur of theater
and is now teaching History of Puppet Art at the State Institute of
Cinema and Theater. According to R.Babayan, the book consisting of
several parts has been already translated into English, too, but they
aren’t able to publish it because of absence of funds. Besides, as
the theater has been a member of “Yunima” (international organization
of puppet theaters) for already 30 years, the book is likely to have
its online variant, as well.