For the fourth year in a row, the travelling summer theater festival "Lyatno teatro" will give children and their parents moments of pure happiness. And to make this day unforgettable in their lives, together they will measure their strength in animation with games, survive a storm of hundreds of balloons, experience a miracle with coming to life paintings, learn in a puppet farm to care for nature, and experience the most important thing in life - love.

Little Theatre Company, the company behind the festival loved by young and old, is already counting down the days to its first performance of the year, firing imaginations with promises of magic, laughter and а sunny mood.

"With our creation in 2013, we set ourselves the task of reaching out to people in small settlements", says Emil Yordanov, director, actor and manager of the company. Otherwise, what makes the festival successful is that it offers a wide range of creative products and people can recognise themselves in them, find something for themselves and enjoy themselves. We have a varied programme of games, workshops, performances, shows - from puppetry to the art of magicians."

Apart from the fact that the Summer Theatre Festival is accessible to all, as tickets are not required, people have the choice to remain passive observers or join in interesting activities and thus reveal their skill or artistic side. In its largest format, it offers a six and a half hour programme, which is performed in collaboration with actors from various theatres - the puppet theatre company "Male-male", "TRIO", individual artists.

"The workshops are designed so that the children can make puppets together with their parents," Emil Yordanov continues his story. Such is our performance "What the old man does is always right" based on the popular fairy tale by Andersen, as well as "Grandpa pulls out a turnip" by the theatre "Male-male". Kole Kitanov's soap bubble show "Balloon as an Elephant" also leaves no one indifferent - including us, although we have seen the show many times. 

"These meetings are very exciting for us because Bulgarians living outside Bulgaria always have a nostalgic note and are looking for any information about our country", says Emil Yordanov. "The performances we present to them are appreciated on the basis of their merits and they show that they are proud to be part of Bulgarian culture. All in all, we get very touching meetings, and something similar happens in small towns in our country, because people there rarely see such things. In other words, it doesn't matter whether the communities we go to are in or outside Bulgaria. Our mission is one - to reach out to all of them and share with each other, because that's how a nation develops."

Emil Yordanov believes that there should be no Bulgarians who are not reached by Bulgarian culture or whose contact with it is too limited. "We enjoy doing it and we feel the warm attitude of the people because they appreciate our efforts," he adds.

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