Moscow Puppet Theater
Moscow Puppet Theater
(originally the Children’s Book Theater), a theater that opened in 1930 with the staging of Punch and the Hedgehog. Its first director was A. M. Vitman. The theater was renamed the First Moscow Puppet Theater in 1937 and the Moscow Puppet Theater in 1954. The most widely acclaimed performances have included Tales of Pushkin (1957), an adaptation of Gaidar’s Mal’chish-Kibal’chish (1964), Anouilh’s The Lark (1966), Grebennikov’s Ballad of the Granite Monument (1972), and Moliére’s Les Fourberies de Scapin (1972). The principal stage directors have been N. M. Savin (1939–53), Honored Art Worker of the RSFSR V. A. Gromov (1953–62), B. I. Ablynin (1962–67), and Honored Art Worker of the Georgian SSR A. A. Gamsakhurdiia (1967–70). Performances for adults have been included in the Moscow Puppet Theater’s repertoire since 1963.