“ Yesterday I watched in the theater "Karlsson Haus" "VANYA" - the performance - laureate of the highest theater prize of St. Petersburg "Golden Sofit" in the nomination "Best Performance in the Puppet Theater" and "The Best Actor in the Puppet Theater" - Mikhail Shelomentsev. The play "VANYA" is a chamber production for adults, in which a true puppet theater appears in front of the audience, which is rare in our time. The author of the play is the famous Belarusian director Alexei Lelyavsky. Stylish and charming dolls please the eye, and a touching story about the archetypes of Russian consciousness, filled with humor and will not leave anyone indifferent. Near to us, far or near, the Dragon must certainly live. Even if there is no Dragon, it must be invented. If there is no Dragon, then who to fight with? Why then need a miracle hero? And we definitely need them! Otherwise, who will help us? .. Who will save us? .. Who will protect us? .. At least in a fairy tale. Of course, Vanya! From the story of how miraculously Vanya happened, how he went to a monster filthy (Dragon, then) to search, and how these wanderings ended, you will learn a little more about the mysterious Russian soul. "Despite the presence of typical characters of the Russian fairy-tale (grandfather, grandmother, three sons), the performance can not be called just a fairy tale, it's something more - a fantasy on the theme, composed by the protagonist - a pilot who crashed.The story seems unpretentious, A new doll or an object makes the narrative more interesting, lively and understandable.The amazing clay dolls, devoid of any plasticity, acquire specific plasticity and characters of the characters, and actor Mikhail Shelomentsev is both a drunk Otom-narrator, and every hero in particular "