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SYNOPSES
Come on, Kitten! The play "Come on, Kitten!" is an allegorical story for children aged 5-8. The characters in this fairytale represent a variety of attitudes towards friendship, dreams, honesty, hope, pragmatism, selfishness and envious greed. The author outlines the moral in a simple story of a journey undertaken by the Kitten and his friends to turn their dream into reality (in spite of the attempts of an old cat and a fly to spoil everything). The full version of the play is to the address http://www.theatre.spb.ru/newdrama/come_on/come_on.htm
With Magic Pleasure! "With Magic Pleasure!" is a play for 5-10 year-old kids. Four snowmen decide they want to live through to the next year. To do this they have to turn themselves into real human beings. But they cannot agree on what a Real Man is like . The first snowman thinks the Real Man is someone who goes to school and studies for a long time - three years in every class. The second one thinks the Real Man is an idler, an absentee, a quarrelsome fellow. The third one thinks the Real Man is a weakling, a sneak and a coward. The fourth one never got to have a human name at all - nobody else appeared during their short lifetime in the school yard. So this snowman (a girl) was left with a strange name "Nowise". But in actual fact it was Nowise who turned into a Real Human Being, and the other snowmen who went and melted away, one after the other.
"On foul good luck and good misfortune, love, a journey and fresh breeze" is a play for 7-13 year-old kids. Little foal (the Kid) is trying to learn from his Mum (the blind horse) something about happiness. "What is Happiness?" - is the main question discussed in the play. The Little foal goes to look for happiness without knowing exactly what it actually is... So he meets a Wolf, who introduces himself as "Happiness". The silly foal takes the Wolf to his Mum. The Wolf is plotting his "criminal" plans to get to little foals in the flock. After various adventures and a dramatic fight between the Wolf and the old father Horse (father of the foal), - the Wolf is beaten and the truth comes to light. The declared wisdom is that everyone should know what exactly he/she wants in life before going to look for something unidentified and unclear, which others call "Happiness". There is also the dramatic theme of the relationship between the parent-horses, who appear not to live together and so interpret the paradigm Love-Happiness in (so to speak) a philosophical way (this makes the play also interesting for the parents of young spectators). But the charming romantic line of the Kid's frendship with the girl-foal Vetka (whoes girlish image appears through dialogs as absolutely adorable) brings a non-didactic lyrical melody to the play and involves spectators emotionally.
The 31st of December "The 31st of December" is a play for 7-13 year-old kids. The action of the play "The 31st of December" takes place in a small town. The only season there is winter. Every day all townspeople have to celebrate "New Year". Because New Year has no end. Nobody knows who made things like that, nobody knows how long it will last... The main heroes of the play try to find the "Master". It was the "Master" who really did all that and he can't understand why people don't like their life. Of course the story has a happy end. The moral of this fairy-tale is: - life can't be an everlasting holiday; - life should not be absolutely dependent on material matters (without some spiritual component); - there should be freedom in life.
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