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The Classic fairytale of Cinderella: a young girl, mistreated by her step-mother and step-sisters, who finds out that dreams really can come true.

The Classic Fairytale Story of Snow White with a Modern Twist: Who is the “fair”est of them all? Snow White of course!

A Bedtime Story of Honesty, Courage and Truth. If Pinocchio is to become a Real boy he needs to learn how to be honest, brave and true.

A Grimm’s Brother Tale: A miller tells a tale that his daughter can turn straw into gold. A strange little man is willing to help…for a price. Guess his name and he will be gone…but what is his name?

Goldilocks and the Three Bears ~ Bedtime Stories for Kids. Goldilocks finds the three bears cottage in the woods. Should she make herself comfortable?

Hansel and Gretel Bedtime Stories for Kids. When Hansel and Gretel go in search of food, they find a gingerbread house. But who is inside?

A Story of Friendship, Love and Courage. Rapunzel’s Story ~ A Brothers Grimm Fairy Tale. An evil witch has trapped Rapunzel in a tower. Can her long hair or love save her?

A Story of Courage, Justice and Self-Awareness. Merlin the Magician places a magic sword in a stone…whomever can pull it out is the rightful king.

A Bedtime Story of Acceptance and Self-Awareness. A Mama Duck is proud when her six ducklings hatch from their eggs. But one duckling does not look like the others? Is he truly an Ugly Duckling?

The classic Brother’s Grimm fairytale that sparked the Disney adaptation.

A Story of Courage, Learning and Love. The Classic fairy tale: The Little Mermaid falls in love with a prince on shore and she makes a deal with the Sea Witch to become human. But without her voice, how can the prince fall in love with her?

This Classic Folktale is adapted from the original story of “Aladdin” from The Arabian Nights. Aladdin, the Genie and the Magic Lamp work to impress the princess who wishes to be a commoner.

A Story of Courage, Kindness to Animals and Learning. The Classic Tale of a male deer, Bambi, his mother and his adventures learning in the woods.

A Story of Charity, Compassion and Justice, from England. Robin Hood takes part in an archery contest thrown by the Sheriff of Nottingham. Will he realize its a trap before it is too late? One of the many Tales of Robin Hood.

This is the Legend Tale of Maui the Demi-God from Moana. It is part of our Classic Bedtime Stories for Kids Collection. It has been adapted from the Tales of Maui as well as Disney’s version of Moana.

A Bedtime Story in Simple English for Kids. A toy rabbit learns that through a child’s love it can become real.

The Classic Tale of the Snow Queen: Gerda and Kai struggle to fight the Snow Queen and find the balance between Good and Evil.

The Classic Fairy Tale of Sleeping Beauty. Princess Aurora has been cursed by Maleficent. When she pricks herself on a spinning wheel on her 16th birthday, she is put into a deep sleep for 100 years. Who can save her?

Bedtime Story for Kids: The Gift of the Magi, A Christmas Story. Della and Jim wish to give each other the perfect Christmas present, but how will they come up with the money?

A Bedtime Story of Friendship, Courage and Acceptance. . The story tells of the time Pocahontas saved the life of settler John Smith from her father, Powhatan.

A Cinderella Story ~ Bedtime Stories for Kids

The Classic fairytale of Cinderella: a young girl, mistreated by her step-mother and step-sisters, who finds out that dreams really can come true.

Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs Story ~ Bedtime Stories for Kids

The Classic Fairytale Story of Snow White with a Modern Twist: Who is the “fair”est of them all? Snow White of course!

Pinocchio Story ~ Fairy Tale Bedtime Stories in English for Kids

A Bedtime Story of Honesty, Courage and Truth. If Pinocchio is to become a Real boy he needs to learn how to be honest, brave and true.

Beauty and the Beast Classic Tale ~ Fairy Tale Stories for Kids

The classic fairy tale of a beautiful woman and the monstrous beast.

Rumpelstiltskin ~ A Fairy Tale Bedtime Story for Kids

Goldilocks and the Three Bears ~ Bedtime Stories for Kids

Goldilocks and the Three Bears ~ Bedtime Stories for Kids. Goldilocks finds the three bears cottage in the woods. Should she make herself comfortable?

Hansel and Gretel ~ Bedtime Stories for Kids

Hansel and Gretel Bedtime Stories for Kids. When Hansel and Gretel go in search of food, they find a gingerbread house. But who is inside?

Rapunzel by the Brothers Grimm ~ Bedtime Stories

A Story of Friendship, Love and Courage. Rapunzel’s Story ~ A Brothers Grimm Fairy Tale. An evil witch has trapped Rapunzel in a tower. Can her long hair or love save her?

The Sword in the Stone: a King Arthur Legend of the Sword Story

A Story of Courage, Justice and Self-Awareness. Merlin the Magician places a magic sword in a stone…whomever can pull it out is the rightful king.

The Ugly Duckling Story ~ Fairy Tale Story for Kids in English

A Bedtime Story of Acceptance and Self-Awareness. A Mama Duck is proud when her six ducklings hatch from their eggs. But one duckling does not look like the others? Is he truly an Ugly Duckling?

The Frog Prince: The Story of the Princess and the Frog ~ Bedtime Stories

The classic Brother’s Grimm fairytale that sparked the Disney adaptation.

The Little Mermaid Story ~ Bedtime Stories for Kids in English

Aladdin and the Magic Lamp from The Arabian Nights ~ Bedtime Stories

This Classic Folktale is adapted from the original story of “Aladdin” from The Arabian Nights. Aladdin, the Genie and the Magic Lamp work to impress the princess who wishes to be a commoner.

Bambi Story: A Life in the Woods ~ Bedtime Stories for Kids in English

A Story of Courage, Kindness to Animals and Learning. The Classic Tale of a male deer, Bambi, his mother and his adventures learning in the woods.

Robin Hood and the Golden Arrow Story ~ Legend Stories for Kids

Maui from Moana: Tales of the Demi-God ~ Legend Stories for Kids

The Velveteen Rabbit Story ~ Bedtime English Story for Kids

A Bedtime Story in Simple English for Kids. A toy rabbit learns that through a child’s love it can become real.

The Snow Queen Fairy Tale Story ~Bedtime Story for Kids

The Classic Tale of the Snow Queen: Gerda and Kai struggle to fight the Snow Queen and find the balance between Good and Evil.

Sleeping Beauty Fairy Tale Story ~ Bedtime Stories for Kids

The Gift of the Magi Story ~ A Holiday Story for Kids

Bedtime Story for Kids: The Gift of the Magi, A Christmas Story. Della and Jim wish to give each other the perfect Christmas present, but how will they come up with the money?

Pocahontas and John Smith Story ~ Folktales Stories for Kids

A Bedtime Story of Friendship, Courage and Acceptance. . The story tells of the time Pocahontas saved the life of settler John Smith from her father, Powhatan.

The Emperor’s New Clothes Story ~ Bedtime Stories

A Bedtime Story in Simple English for Kids. The Emperor is fooled into believing he is wearing magic clothes which can’t be “seen”.

Mulan Story ~ Tale of Hua Mulan Bedtime Stories | English Story for Kids

A Bedtime Story in Simple English for Kids. Based on the “Ballad of Mulan” and Disney’s Mulan, this is a legend tale about a girl who goes in disguise as a boy and joins the army in her brother’s place.

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Good night, Axel!
sleep book
Connie can't sleep
Where does sleep wander?
Sleep hunting
Night Tales
Monster Nyunya does not want to sleep, or How to lay down a capricious
Bedtime stories
Where to put the bunny?
A wonderful train rushes to sleep
Construction, baiushki-bayu
Lullaby book
Hush, Little Baby, Do not Say a Word

Gunilla Bergström
"Good night, Axel!"
Illustrations by the author
Translated from Swedish by Xenia Kovalenko
Belaya Vorona Publishing House, 2022

Axel is the most ordinary boy who does not always manage to fall asleep easily. Therefore, before going to bed, dad performs rituals that are familiar to many parents firsthand: he reads a book to his son, gives water and checks if the lion has hidden in the closet. Moreover, we must pay tribute to dad, he does all this with great patience. The book says bluntly: “Dad is very kind. Sometimes even too much." In the end, dad's kindness leads to a comic denouement: he gets so tired of putting his son to bed that he falls asleep on the floor, taking Axel's teddy bear out from under the sofa. Here the boy himself has to show some maturity: he understands that there is no point in waking up dad, and therefore he simply covers him with a blanket, goes to bed on his own - and really falls asleep.
Daddy's calm reaction to "whims" normalizes them: after all, Axel does all this not from evil, but because he really has "no sleep in one eye." On the other hand, the story helps the child himself to look at the situation from the point of view of an adult and even sympathize with his parents when they react to a chain of requests a little less patiently.

Anastasia Orlova
The Sleep Book
Artist Irina Gavrilova
Labyrinth Publishing House, 2018

The verses in this book can be called bewitching, which means they are exactly the kind you need to fall asleep. But this is real, great poetry: in some poems, Anastasia Orlova was not even afraid to leave the rhyme familiar in children's poetry and turned to free verse. Each of the poems in one way or another refers to the theme of sleep and falling asleep, calms, sets in a sleepy mood. He also names and describes situations related to going to bed - when you don’t want to get out from under a warm blanket or, on the contrary, you can’t sleep at all. The illustrations in the book are also absolutely wonderful and are somewhat similar to dreams, in which a variety of pictures and images flicker.

Liane Schneider
“Connie can’t sleep”
Artist Janina Gerrissen
Translated from German by Elena Supik
Alpina publishing house, 2019

It was pouring rain all day, and Connie couldn’t go for a walk, nor in kindergarten not with parents. Therefore, in the evening she is less tired than usual and does not want to go to bed at all: she asks her mother to play board games, her father to check if there are monsters in the room, and then gets out of bed many times - because for a good sleep you need to go to the toilet and maybe even a bite to eat. Her parents bring her back to bed over and over again and offer her new ways to sleep: read her books, make the room darker, offer to count sheep (or cats - like Connie does).
Surely many children will recognize themselves in Connie, and parents will be able to learn from the book the rituals of going to bed and be inspired by the patience of the girl's parents. The book is part of the "Best Friend - Connie" series, which describes the everyday life of a preschool girl.

Clemence Sabbat
Where does sleep roam?
Artist Fabien Octo-Lambert
Translated from French by Elena Feldman
Clever Publishing House, 2021

The dream has hidden somewhere: neither the kitten, nor the puppy, nor the piglet can find it. There is no sleep under the bed, in the bathroom and in the kitchen. What to do? Friends go to seek advice from more experienced and adult animals: dormouse, sheep and beaver, which give many useful recommendations. To “attract” sleep, you need to lie in silence and darkness, count sheep, and it would also be nice to listen to a bedtime story. A child reader can also use all these tips, and this story in verse can become a bedtime story. During the day, you can listen to it, looking at the pictures and memorizing the advice of animals, and in the evening fall asleep under the measured reading of an already familiar story - it is long enough for this.

Ekaterina Zavalishina
“Hunting for sleep. Sleeping Fairy Tale
Artist Maria Druzhinina
Piter Publishing House, 2019

One evening the little fox told his dad that he was an adult and he didn’t need to sleep anymore. Dad did not swear, but turned the situation in his favor: he happily said that his grown-up son could help in a very important hunt - the hunt for sleep. The little fox, of course, did not suspect a dirty trick and gladly agreed to take part in this adventure. Dad and son went to visit different animals to find out from them what tricks they use to catch a dream: put away toys and brush their teeth, fluff up the bed, ventilate the room and turn off the light. With the help of their advice, the fox really managed to fall asleep easily and quickly.
The book removes the conflict that often arises in adults and children around going to bed - "catching" sleep becomes a common important task - and also offers a simple evening "rite", which, as you know, is indeed an important part of sleep hygiene. At the same time, reading a book in itself - with its "soft" pastel illustrations and a fabulous plot - sets you in a calm mood and helps you fall asleep.

Kitty Krathuer
Night Tales
Illustrations by the author
Translated from Swedish by Xenia Kovalenko
Belaya Vorona Publishing House, 2021

Three fairy tales in this book are intended for adults to read to their children at bedtime. They are united by a frame plot: a mother bear tells stories to a bear cub before going to bed. They are all about sleep in one way or another. The first story is about Nochka, who warns the animals that it's time to go to bed, and they dodge, just like little children. The second story is about a girl who got lost in the forest and had to spend the night in the hollow of a bat (at first she even tried to sleep upside down!). And the third is about a man who suffered from insomnia, but was finally able to fall asleep after he went for a walk and met his beloved friend. In these tales, there is no too exciting plot that could distract from falling asleep, and their slightly strange characters seem to have come from dreams themselves. To match the stories and illustrations: they are made in pencil, the main color in them is pink, with the addition of dark muted tones. All this creates a feeling of evening twilight light and even more tunes in to a restful sleep.

Julia Böhme
“Monster Nyunya does not want to sleep, or How to lay down a capricious person”
Artist Franziska Harvey
Translated from German by Daria Andreeva
Content Publishing House, 2019 » sides of the character of the boy Kuzi. The monster appears when Kuzi is in a bad mood, he is tired or cannot sleep. In this book, Kuzya helps the monster go to bed, and he is naughty and naughty: he pretends that his stomach hurts, splashes water from a heating pad, eats toothpaste and a brush. At the same time, Kuzya himself acts as a reasonable adult: he tells Nyuna how to behave, sings a lullaby to the monster. This book helps the child to see their own pranks and whims from the side and thereby learn to cope with them, to behave more rationally.
It is better to read the book together with your parents: there is quite a lot of text in it, and it is better to discuss all the adventures of Kuzi and Nyuni. An adult interlocutor can cite stories from the life of the child himself as an example: you can recall cases when he could not go to bed in any way, and try to figure out together how to get out of this situation. Of course, this does not guarantee that the child will start to go to bed every night without problems, but it will give him the tools to cope with his own “monsters”.

Karol Roth
Bedtime Tales
Artist Valery Gorbachev
Translated from German
Makhaon Publishing House, 2022

There are three fairy tales in Karol Roth's book.
The first tale is that there is no better place to sleep than your own bed.
The second is about night terrors and unwillingness to sleep. And the plot of the third tale is reminiscent of "The Tale of the Stupid Mouse" by S. Marshak, only with the opposite sign. Unlike the character in Marshakov's fairy tale (unnecessarily cruel to kids), little and not at all stupid lamb Lenny just wants his mother to put him to bed, and not some strange adult.
In other words, the book is devoted to recognizable and very important for the baby situations of going to bed and helps to look at them from the outside.

You can read more about this book in the article “Reading at night?”.

Sheridan Kane
"Where to put the hare?"
Artist Sally Percy
Translated from English by Darya Sokolova
Melik-Pashayev Publishing House, 2018

For most families, the transition of a child to the age of two or three years is a difficult time. A two-year-old kid is completely captured by the desire to explore the world around him, he quickly runs away from his parents, is impudent, does not obey, even bites. In addition, now his world is filled with fantasies, and therefore fears, he hardly falls asleep in the evenings. It is really not easy for parents to cope with him, but now the baby even more than before needs his mother's affection and comfort, absolute acceptance, a sense of security and care. Sheridan Kane's Where to Put the Bunny? ‒ as cozy as a mother's hands, but full of adventure. Just what a two or three year old fidget needs. But in general, it is rather an “atmospheric” book, sincere, showing the child an image of boundless maternal love. Reading it, you definitely want to hold the baby in your arms and even rock it slightly, cradle it. Yes, and he himself is not averse to climbing "on the handles." You can even play with the baby in a hare and a hare, wrapping it, for example, in a blanket. Mom's reading with swaying in his arms safely returns him to the space of love, acceptance, warmth, quiet joy.

More information about this book can be found in the article "Sleep well, baby, I'm there!".

Rinker Sherri Dasky
“A wonderful train rushes to sleep”
Artist Tom Lichtenheld
Translators Maria Galina, Arkady Shtypel
Career Press publishing house, 2019

not only fall asleep. Although, of course, the train rushes to sleep. And the fast, jumping rhythm at the beginning gradually subsides by the end of the book. Why, this is exactly what happens in the nursery before going to bed - the evening noise and din, and not idyllic silence. That is, it comes, but not immediately. And under this book, toys are wonderfully removed in the evening, because the passengers of the train are none other than plush animals and other game equipment, which is safely distributed in places and enters a cleanly tidy nursery. And finally, the most unexpected: a fabulous lullaby will be able to satisfy the endlessly growing cognitive needs of children, because it contains more than fifteen special "locomotive" terms, the names of different cars. And since they are all wonderfully illustrated, now children will definitely never confuse a tank with a platform or a refrigerator.

You can read more about this book in the article “Locomotive Lullaby”.

Rinker Sherry Dasky
“Construction, bayuki-bayu”
Artist Tom Lichtenheld
Translator Yury Shipkov
Career Press Publishing House, 2018

Sleep in the evenings: all people, even birds, go to sleep at night . It is difficult to find a boy who is indifferent to cars and construction equipment. Therefore, a book about cars, written as a lullaby, will be of interest to almost any person from three years old. What happens at the construction site in the evening when people go home? The machines, too, having been tired during the day, settle down to sleep. And that's just how they do it, and tells the book. Along the way, you can learn from it about the names and varieties of construction equipment - the lullaby talks about a concrete mixer, a crane, a bulldozer and other construction units.

Andrey Usachev
Lullaby Book. Poems and songs”
Illustrations by Igor Oleinikov
Rech Publishing House, 2018

This book was made by two outstanding masters: the poet Andrey Usachev and the artist Igor Oleinikov.
Andrei Usachev is one of the most popular modern children's writers, the author of poems, songs, plays and even textbooks. Among his works "Lullaby" occupies a special place.
Perhaps this is one of his most serious books, although it retains all the signs of Usachev's authorial style: light and clever humor, play with words, unexpected plot twists. There are eighteen poems in the Lullaby Book. Most of them have long been familiar to connoisseurs of Usachov's songwriting - for example, "Dragon's Lullaby", "Rustle Song" or "Lullaby of the Snow Mother":

The mountains sleep in the boundless darkness,
The earth is covered with snow...
Sleep, my little one
My snowy one,
The most tender person!”

Igor Oleinikov's illustrations turn each spread of this book into a true work of art. On the one hand, the drawings are fully consistent with the overall gentle and sleepy mood of the book. On the other hand, the child may look at each illustration for a long time, which complements and expands the poem.

"Bayu-bayushki-bayu"
Illustrations by Elizaveta Vasnetsova
ID Meshcheryakova Publishing House, 2018

The main advantage of this collection of folk lullabies is the illustrations by Elizaveta Vasnetsova. The artist inherits the style of her father, the remarkable illustrator of Russian folklore Yuri Vasnetsov. Her bright, juicy, perky works are far from the traditional illustration of lullabies: the sun is much more common here than the moon and stars. But on almost every spread there is an image of a cradle, unsteady, cradle and a baby sleeping in it. The book contains dozens of lullabies that were sung in Russian villages in the 19th century.

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NIGHT TALES FOR THE SMART | Petersburg theater magazine (Official site)

II International festival of performances for children "Gavrosh" (Moscow). Italian season "Pinocchio". 19–28 September

Russian theater for children has existed for many years in an active situation polemics of the broadest range: someone claims that children's theater is absolutely necessary element of the educational process, someone is what modern children no "tyuzyatin" is needed, planted Soviet power, and so Further. Discuss, vote against "theatre of children's grief", now for "interactive", now for "entertainment", then for "spirituality", but, it seems, still no consensus on this does not exist.

what should be the children's theater, no and rich in theatrical traditions Italy. Directed by Letizia Quintavalla at a press conference dedicated to opening of the second festival "Gavroche" dedicated to Italian theater, spoke as follows: “Discussion about children's theater is ubiquitous and endless. New ones are born children, and with them new questions are born - and this process is wonderful! After all, it serves as an occasion for honest creativity." Festival art director Teresa Durova summed up: “Problems children's theater cannot be resolved by talking. You just have to love kids." She must have been a little sloppy. performances brought from Italy to the festival turned out to be different too simple. The main thing that united four productions that we managed to see - obvious trust to the "immature" viewer, to his ability to perceive and feel precisely art, and not only favorably consume food mass culture. And you have to give due to the rather mixed age festival audience, this is trust was not deceived.

Teatro Bricciole from Parma opened Fairy Tale Festival by Carlo Collodi Pinocchio (directed by Letizia Quintavalla) in unexpectedly "childish" style: "like Brecht" - explained after performances by actress Anna Amadori. And she added: "our Pinocchio - Night Pinocchio. And it's true: in the twilight, on black draped stage, actors in black costumes, and most of the "Italian authenticity", in fact, focused in the image of a Fairy with blue hair (this role is played by already mentioned Anna Amadori, she also voices the Pinocchio doll). Temperamental big-eyed, lush-haired, in a simple but very feminine dress, she looks exactly like most probably of us imagines "the real Italian", but the "fabulous" component her appearances serve alone only electric blue sparkles in hair. In stage history about the wooden boy she then the narrator, then - alive, active participant, and four actors (Cristiano Fabbri, Claudil Guain, Jada Meley, Morello Rinaldi) - black rabbits - as needed then become servants of the proscenium, then the characters of a fairy tale. Friends with the plot of "Pinocchio" (and in Italy he is familiar to literally everyone) this the reception should evoke quite gloomy associations: rabbits appear by order of the Fairy with a coffin on his shoulders, when Pinocchio refuses take medicine - as weighty educational argument. Action then transferred inside the small theater, standing in the middle of the stage, then revolves around him. It is forbidden not to note that the actors are wonderful all sorts of “stealing” are successful: how a log turns into a doll in front of the eyes of the audience, quite difficult to trace even looking closely. are remembered hazy graphic scenes shadow theater: the emergence of the wise Crickets on fire fireplace feet of a wooden man, van crawling down the road with a string harnessed to it donkeys ... Pinocchio puppets in the play several, they are different and executed intentionally primitive: plank body, round head, handles-legs - sticks. And the way driving these dolls for the most part part is devoid of any technical honing: this wooden Pinocchio is a toy that own fate does not take too much seriously. Stylistically alien laconic scenographic solution looks, unfortunately, donkey life size (turns into a donkey according to the plot Pinocchio from idleness), and a mannequin, depicting Pinocchio transformed into a living boy, "more dead than alive. " In fabulous story retold by the Theater Bricciole, in the foreground, perhaps, turned out to be the feelings of the Fairy Mother, watching difficult growing up his named son, and not the adventure of a wooden boy, deserving the right to become a "real man."

Same Teatro Bricciole and in the same "night" colors (twilight on the stage, laconic scenography) introduced dialogue between mother and son in the play "Mom's Cry" (directed by Eliza Kuppini). The plot of a modern fairy tale about love, resentment, mistakes and difficult the path to mutual understanding is full metaphors and on the stage is embodied in a poetic theatrical reality. From an angry cry, the boy's soul loses its integrity: "feet in the desert, hands in the jungle, heart in the sea, and head among the stars," and mothers have to take a long trip over land and sea and even take off to heaven as an angel to collect together and refill with love the image of his own son. And painted black decoration-machine (most conditionally denoting the house where the heroes live), and bright plastic (or even choreographic? Or acrobatic?) existence actors (Elisa Cuppini, Christiano Fabbri) give a reason assume that this is a staging "like Meyerhold". Compositionally the show was flawless (perhaps the fragmentary "sagging" of the action was due to the existence at the "non-native" festival site), but the synthesis of literary and stage text (as far as could be judged by the synchronous translation) was largely successful.

Other form of theatrical play, quite innovative, could see those who attended the performance "Italian garden" (directed by Francesco Gandhi, Davide Venturini; Company T. P. O., Prato) - visual theatre. The company is searching in the area modern technologies, and the goal it is to use the achievements of computer era for the development of creative abilities of young viewers. All performances of the Company T.P.O. (and some only they have three "gardens": in addition to "Italian" is "Japanese" and "Painted") are close to the genre happening, because their main participants - "interactive carpet" and the audience, whom the leading actors are invited on a journey through this magic carpet. Below it are numerous sensors, and high above it is a projector. stepping (or even crawling, or somersaulting!) on the carpet-screen, you can force "run" mosaic path, daisies bloom, fill up water marble pool, grow out thick grass and so on and so forth. Combined with harpsichord music and baroque vocals, with pantomimic motion pattern of leading actresses (Viola Esposti Ongaro, Carolina Amoretti, Angelica Portioli) to varying degrees artistic (more often timid, of course) being on the carpet of small spectators looks as rather curious, almost cinematic improvisation. Of course same, this colorful and moving "film strip on the carpet" can be shown only in a dark room so the "Italian Garden" also turned out to be "night"!

In the bag of festival experiences Family History (Rodisio Theatre, Parma), no doubt, can claim in place of "most-most": the most alive, the most acting, the most human, the most interesting, the most talented and so on. Directors and authors of the play (Manuela Capeche, Davide Doro) came up with a virtuoso text game (where is Grishkovtsu!) and her exquisitely temperamental stage incarnation that captures instantly - and then extremely difficult to describe. "Beatrice Baruffini is engaged in artistic gymnastics and always gets the highest score! - sounds refrain in the story that tells on behalf of the only, beloved, brilliant, wonderful daughter actress ... Beatrice Baruffini. This story, funny and dramatic, comes to a Chekhovian dreary ending: it turns out that all are different ideas about happiness, all come true dreams and accomplished victories can turn into a routine and start into a dead end But even in this dead end people it is common to harbor the hope that "next time everything will work out much better". And such a plot presented on behalf of the child, and played for kids! festival audience took the performance "in one breath", awarding long sincere applause. ovation (as well as the award in the field of children's theater, which the performance was noted in Italy) more than deserved: on stage we saw the real heirs dell'arte (Beatrice Baruffini, Davide Doro, Consuelo Ghiretti) - plastic, musical, ironic, sparkling cheerful, convincing dramatic and very beautiful! Mis-en-scene drawing performance with great taste "mounted" from plastic, static, dance elements, it has refrains and variations, it is clear and logical - and yet in every moment not entirely predictable.
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