National Puppet Theater
Puppet stage and museum whose troupe kept performing through seven years without a building of its own.
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This guide to the National Puppet Theater in Yerevan starts with a gap in its own official history: seven years, between 1950 and 1957, when the company simply stops existing on paper, no director, no season, no address. It traces the theater back to its founding in 1935 with a single stage manager and three actors, and asks what really became of the troupe during those missing years. The guide follows the thread to the theater's current home on Sayat-Nova Avenue, standing since 1975, and the museum inside it, shelves of carved puppet faces from productions spanning nine decades.
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