News
7 December 2022
Audience can again enjoy the contemporary art by Tarlan Gorchu, managing and artistic director of the Baku Marionette Theatre. This time the artist's new works are displayed at the METACODE group exhibition presented by YARAT Contemporary Art Space at the Museum of Azerbaijani Painting of the XX-XXI centuries.
19 June 2022
As pandemic restrictions were gradually cancelled, we were enabled to work normally again, and now the theatre season is almost over. We have intention to open the new theatre season in September. In this regard, we would like to inform the audience in advance that in our theatre we managed to consider all principal needs of those spectators, who can move sitting in their wheeled chairs only. We have a pandus/ramp by our building and so the wheeled chairs can easily enter the theatre. Then, we have a comfortable elevator to take you up to the show hall and to the terrace. On June 19, 2022, activists of the ‘DanceAbility Azerbaijan’ Inclusive Dance Company (@danceabilityazerbaijan), led by Nigar Sultanova, once again took advantage of these opportunities. Dear friends! Follow our program announcements and visit us starting from September! Baku Marionette Theatre looks forward for you!
12 April 2022
An inclusive concert “We Exist” took place at our Theatre on April 12, 2022. This inclusive show was staged by the “Be Kind Azerbaijan” team. Children both with some disabilities and without them took part in the concert. The “Dance Ability” team performed here as well. Founder of the “Be Kind Azerbaijan” project Shirin Rzayeva, artistic head of the Baku Marionette Theatre Tarlan Gorchu, inclusion specialist Zarina Mammadova, artistic director of the play Inna Imranova, and mothers of the young concert participants joined the show programme as well. The event showed that physical problems of children with special needs cannot prevent them from integrating, being active in various everyday activities and enjoying the life, just like they had experienced it while being a part of this concert. Speaking at the event, Shahin Seyidzadeh, Head of the “Icherisheher” State Historical-Architectural Reserve, stressed the importance of such inclusive projects. Among the guests of the concert was also Sukhrob Khojimatov, official of the UN Office in Azerbaijan.
https://icherisheher.gov.az/az/news/439
27 March 2022
On March 27, a special performance of the musical “Arshin Mal Alan” was held at the Baku Marionette Theatre. The event was arranged in cooperation with the charity organization FOR AZERBAIJAN. That day we performed our show exclusively for the children, whose fathers sacrificed their lives in 2020 during the 44-day Patriotic War for the sake of our Motherland – for the victory over the Armenian occupants.
We are very glad that our young spectators came in touch with the world-class classic play with its marvelous story and magic music created by great Uzeyir Hajibeyli, grown up in the city of Shusha. Still we consider the smiling eyes of the kids having visited our show to be the main achievement of the event.
9 March 2022
On March 10, our country traditionally celebrates National Theatre Day. 149 years have passed since the premiere of the very first Azerbaijani show was held. So, the National Theatre of Azerbaijan starts the jubilee year of its history - the year of its 150th anniversary. On these momentous days a charity show was performed at the Baku Marionette Theatre. Uzeyir Hajibeyli's musical of "Arshin Mal Alan" was shown to the most active youth of our country - volunteers, who willingly participate in large projects in various areas. Among the spectators, there were especially many volunteers cooperating with the ASAN Xidmət service.
