Exhibition

The Enchanted Circle of The Puppet Show

Place

The A.S. Block Museum

St. Decabristov, 57

Category

Exhibition

Date

25 november 2022, 11:00 — 25 may 2023, 18:00

Price

от 200 rub

Events / Exhibition

It is the museum’s first event from its Alexander Blok’s Theater exhibition series.

Written by Blok in early 1906, The Puppet Show was first staged by Vsevolod Meyerhold in the Komissarzhevskaya Drama Theater with decorations provided by Nikolai Sapunov, and music, by the fellow poet Mikhail Kuzmin.

The exhibition displays artefacts associated with the play and its first staging, including book illustrations, posters, playbills, stage design drawings, as well as the dress of the actress Yekaterina Munt, and the Pierrot puppet presented to Blok after his meeting with admirers at the Moscow Polytechnic Museum in 1920.