“Let's... let's open a bookstore on wheels and go to the ocean like we dreamed of!!! I don't want to stay at the shelter at all. I want to be with you…Mom!”
Rock-history for those who are not "normal"
A nine-year-old girl named Yunna was adopted by a large black gorilla with shaggy paws and crooked teeth. Yunna dreamed of having a different mother - one who was beautiful and smelled good. However, she had to figure out what to do now that she had been adopted by this gorilla. This orphanage story turns into a series of adventures in a performance by Roman Boklanov, and at the end, it becomes clear that appearance or other "ideal" circumstances are not the most important thing when it comes to relationships.
The play is filled with childish mischief, music, and lots of objects - these, made in different scales, convey the wide range of emotions of the characters as they find their way to each other.
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Trailer:
Director: Roman Boklanov
Art director: Ogannes Ayrapetyan
Lighting Designer: Anastasia Kuznetsova
Actors:
Victoria Voynich-Slutskaya / Julia Cherbadzhy - Junna
Lidia Klirikova - Ape
Natalia Sizova - Gerda, modeler 1, restaurant visitor, GPS navigator
Maxim Morozov - Turd, Aaron, modeler 2, waiter
Vassa Bokova / Kseniya Pavlova - the ape Star
For the performance, in cooperation with the "Parents' Bridge" Foundation, a workshop was opened, during which 10 artists met with children recently adopted into the family and then, together with them, created extraordinary books.
Nominations, awards
🏆 The highest theater award of St. Petersburg "Golden Soffit" 2020-2021, nomination "The best director's work in the puppet theater"
🏆 International Theater Audience Award "Theatregoer's Star 2021", nomination "Best Performance for Children and Youth", Moscow
🏆 March 20, 2021, participant of the program of the Russian National Theater Award Golden Mask "Children's WEEKEND", Moscow
🏆 Long list 2022 of the Highest Russian National Theater Award "Golden Mask"
🏆 October 3, 2022, 13th St. Petersburg theater award for young people "Breakthrough", nominee-laureate in the nomination "Best Director”
🏆 October 3, 2022, 13th St. Petersburg theater award for young people "Breakthrough", actress of the play Lidia Klirikova, nominee-laureate in the nomination "Best Actress"
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