May 21, 2012 Brooklyn, NY: "Verbochki"
Children’s Theater to hold a new premier
The
Children’s Theater Group "Verbochki" ("Little Willows"), was first
organized under the direction of Matushka Maria Ivanov in early
2010, when the children put on a play entitled "Buratino" at the
Christmas Yolka in Holy New Martyrs & Confessors of Russia Church in
Brooklyn, NY. The primary aim and desire of the theater group’s
participants is to give the children experience with performance art
in an atmosphere of friendship and love, giving them as many
precious stones as possible, which might serve as indispensible and
salvific currency in the life to come, as well as sowing in our
children a love for the Russian language, for Russian culture as
something not somehow alien, tangential, or even just a curiosity,
but as something near and dear, something inborn, something natural.
The second play to be prepared and put on by the "Verbochki" group
was the musical "Mama," based on the primary motifs of the story
"The Wolf and the Seven Young Kids." This musical was shown not only
to parishioners of Holy New Martyrs & Confessors Church, but also to
parishioners of Holy Virgin Protection Church in Glen Cove, NY and
St. Alexander Nevsky Cathedral in Lakewood, NJ. In June 2011, the
theater group presented the musical at a Russian cultural festival
being held for several years in New York City.
At the present time, "Verbochki" is ready to delight audiences with
a long-awaited musical presentation of the folk story "Finist the
Bright Falcon." The premier will be held on June 10 at Holy Virgin
Protection Church in Glen Cove, after which the children will
joyfully accept invitations to parishes of the Russian Orthodox
Church and various organizations.
Republication of materials must include a reference to:
"Eastern American Diocesewww.eadiocese.org."
