Below are some of our favorite excerpts from the TheatreMirror’s review of the Tale of the Fisherman and the Fish. We thank them for their review, and we have provided a link below to read it in full.
“Director Evgeny Ibragimov’s extraordinary vision takes this story – usually interpreted as a lesson about greed – and turns it into an imaginative and moving tale about a man who loves his wife so much he would do anything to make her happy, even if it means losing her. Ibragimov’s staging is inventive, lively, and joyful. He makes the puppets fly, he makes them dance, he makes them cry, he makes them real.”
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“Stephen Petrilli’s vibrant, textured lighting design makes the small black box space feel truly magical. The way he plays with darkness, shadow, color, and light is nothing short of masterful. Synchronizing key plot moments with the sound design and original music by Nikolay Yakimov, Petrilli creates sunsets, lightning, and storms on the ever-changing “ocean wave” (a large piece of plastic manipulated by four puppeteers), and the cage of light he places around the sad fisherman while he drinks alone on the beach actually made my heart ache.”