Krasnoyarsk Theatre troupe is to perform in VI International Puppet Theatre Festival “Petrushka the Great” in Yekaterinburg .

In the competitive programme of the festival Krasnoyarsk Theatre will present the performance “Kashtanka”. The opening night of the performance by the director Vladimir Gusarov is planned to be on September, 17.

The performance “Petrushka the Great” is timed to the eightieth anniversary of the Yekaterinburg Puppet Theatre. The theme of the current festival is “Puppet Theatre – from a child’s naivety to a philosopher’s wisdom”. The providers of the festival have tried to gather all the performances of the major directors of Russian and foreign puppet theatres.