Here's yer monthly dose of arts n' culture, ya heathens...A marionette troupe from Islamic Republic of Iran is scheduled to attend Bulgaria's five-day Plovdiv International Puppet Theatre Festival, beginning on September 3rd. According to Public Relations Office of the Culture and Islamic Communications Organization (CICO) fax to IRNA Head Office, the festival that would be held at Bulgaria's Plovdiv City is this year titled "Two is Company, Three is a Crowd" from September 3 to 7.
The other troupe's attending this year's festival are from Russia, Bulgaria, Belarus, and Spain.
Bulgaria's Culture Ministry has commissioned that country's State Center of Puppet Theater, affiliated to Plovdiv Municipality to sponsor this year's festival. According to the report, the foreign and Bulgarian troupes are scheduled to present sixteen works at this year's festival altogether.
The name of the modern piece that will be presented by the Iranian troupe is "I had a dream in which pieces of moon were being separated from it like feathers", that will be screened at 9 pm, September 4th, at Plovdiv Puppet Shows Hall.
Plovdiv has been the host of this international artistic festival every year ever since 1958 for a half century.