Description of the attraction
The Children's Integration Theater "Dolls" is a young and not quite ordinary theater in St. Petersburg. He began his work in 2007. From 2007 to 2010 he worked on the road, and his first performance on his own stage took place on April 5, 2010.
Integration theater is a special project. Its main vocation is to overcome the boundaries between healthy children and children with disabilities, to integrate disabled children into their usual social life, to provide an opportunity for sick and healthy children to communicate on an equal footing. Therefore, the theater premises are suitable for all categories of children, both ordinary and children with disabilities. Everything necessary has been done here to make it comfortable for children with musculoskeletal disorders. The theater is designed in such a way that a person moving in a wheelchair could do here without the help of strangers. There are wide doorways, there are no steps, the toilet is specially equipped for wheelchair users. In a rather small auditorium, instead of ordinary chairs, there are multi-colored poufs that delight all young spectators and are especially convenient for children with musculoskeletal disorders.
The performances of the Kukly Theater are adapted for children with hearing impairments and are accompanied by sign language interpretation. And, for example, the plots of the performances "Black and White" and "The World of Silence" are generally told without words, only with the help of the plasticity of actors and puppets. Therefore, they are understandable to any viewer.
Children with visual impairments are also not ignored. For the first time in Russia for visually impaired children, a special performance was staged at the Kukly Theater, which premiered on February 26, 2011.
Ordinary and not quite ordinary children, being in the same space, empathizing with the heroes of the performances together, gaining general impressions, acquire a unique experience of communication and become more sensitive and tolerant of each other, expand their understanding of the world around them.
The project is headed by Olga Ellikovna Khokhlova, the artistic director of the theater is Tigran Vladimirovich Saakov, the director is Vladimir Gennadievich Zamorin.
The backbone of the theater troupe is made up of young artists who are graduates of the theater academy. Therefore, the performances of "Dolls" are always bold, bright, sometimes even hooligan, but invariably kind.
"Dolls" is a professional theater, in the performances of which elements of dramatic, puppetry, plastic and musical theater are used. To date, the repertoire of the integration theater includes six performances, and five performances are targeted at children under twelve years of age. The play "Who Made a Miracle" based on the play by W. Gibson is intended for an older audience: high school students and their parents. Now the theater troupe is working on two new productions: one based on the works of contemporary poets, the other based on the children's poems by Junna Moritz.
Despite its youth, the theater has twice become a laureate of the festival "Theaters of St. Petersburg for Children", took part in the world festival "KUKART", in the festivals "ArtOkraina-2010", "LIK-2010", "Christmas Parade-2010", ArtOkraina-2011, at the St. Petersburg Children's Charity Film Festival.
In May 2011, in the Mikhailovsky Garden, the theater held a city-wide celebration “We Speak with Hands”, which was held as part of the “Step Towards!” Festival. During the holiday, the actors of the "Dolls" theater helped the citizens of St. Petersburg to get acquainted with sign language.
In September 2011the integration theater took part in the city festive event "There is a contact!" It was also dedicated to hearing impaired people.
The Puppet Theater combines a high artistic level of performances and socially significant activities. All people with disabilities are provided with discounted tickets to performances; the theater regularly holds charity shows for children from boarding schools, orphanages and rehabilitation centers.
