New Youth Theatre, Nizhny Tagil
Director: Rinat Kiyakov
Production designer: Anastasia Kopylova
Director of Puppetry: Roman Boklanov
Actor:
“The Sugar Child” is a family-friendly play about the life of a child based on the story of contemporary writer Olga Gromova. It is based on the real events of Stella Nudolskaya's life.
The main character is five-year-old Stella, who, after her father is declared an “enemy of the people”, is taken from her warm, cozy, loving, and safe world into the realities of camp life in the 1930s and 1940s. In order to preserve her child's childhood and prevent her from falling into despair, her mother turns the hardships and deprivation into a kaleidoscope of the most unexpected and exciting stories from world literature, religion, music, mythology, etc.
This is a story about the true power of the human spirit, inner freedom, and human dignity told through object theater. On stage, audiences will meet not only the main characters of the play: mother, father, and daughter, but also 18 suitcases. Each of them contains whole worlds, made up of beloved objects, toys, old photographs…
Nominations, awards:
🏆Special prize "For the artistic embodiment of historical memory in the play for children" of the Sverdlovsk regional competition of theatrical works and awards "Bravo - 2022”
🏆 V All-Russian Youth Theater Festival named V.S. Zolotukhin, laureate diploma “For an important artistic statement”
